Become Master of Text Effects With 40 Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

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29 Jun 2010

Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. It is aimed at web designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. It is designed to integrate easily with other former Macromedia products, such as Dreamweaver and Flash.
While Fireworks CS5 packs a lot of new features, it is still possible to achieve completion of these tutorials listed below.

From my own experience, it’s hard to get started learning this program because you will face some obstacles. But take your time and be patient and you will master Fireworks in no time.

1. 3D Water Text Effect in Photoshop CS5

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In this tutorial you will learn how to create realistic water text effect in Fireworks CS5.

2. Awesome Floral Type in Fireworks and Photoshop

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Make your text look better with floral effect.

3. Creating an amazing Palm Pre icon on Fireworks

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Create realistic looking Palm Pre icon in Fireworks.

4. LED Cinema Display in Fireworks

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Create the new Apple Cinema Display 24 the easy way.

5. Fireworks Quick Tips – How to use QuickMask

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Learn how to use one of the best functions in Fireworks – QuickMask.

6. Awesome Light Effects in Fireworks

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Learn how to create this amazing effect you see in the image.

7. Abduzeedo Job Board banner in Fireworks

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Create job board banner in Fireworks.

8. Colored Lights Header

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Learn how to create this stylish looking header.

9. Classy personal portfolio in Fireworks

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10. Grooveshark design style in Fireworks

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11. Amazing Neon Lights on Fireworks

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Title says it all. I followed this tutorial and ended up with a nice looking neon glow text.

12. Creating a cool website header in fireworks

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13. Creating the iPhone Frame on Fireworks

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Create a realistic looking iPhone from scratch.

14. Creating the iPhone Interface on Fireworks

These two tutorials are not same. In the first one you will learn how to create iPhone frame and in this one – iPhone interface.

15. Light Painting in Fireworks

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16. Apple Air Banner in Fireworks

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A must tutorial for every apple fan.

17. Creating the IE7 logo effect in Fireworks

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In this tutorial you will learn how to make IE7 logo effect for any letter.

18. Twist and Fade Technique

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19. Highway Sign

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20. Create a Night Scene

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21. Page Curl in Fireworks

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22. Create a Digital Collage

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23. Scotch Tape Tutorial

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24. Dot Matrix Effect

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25. Gel Cap / Plastic Button

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26. Circular Shadows and Highlights

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27. Reflective Glass Effect in Fireworks/Photoshop

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This is a simple tutorial showing you how to add reflective effect to any text by using Fireworks or Photoshop.

28. Creating Grunge Text Using Adobe Fireworks

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29. Barcode tutorial

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30. Transparent Text

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31. Danger sign

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32. Crystal buttons

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33. Glossy Web 2.0 button

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34. Glossy Badge

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35. One Dollar Coin Tutorial

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36. Human Iris

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37. Simple Orbs Tutorial

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38. Text Wrapping

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39. Canned Pineapple Slice

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40. Recycling Button

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6 Responses to Become Master of Text Effects With 40 Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

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iChris

June 30th, 2010 at 3:53 am

If your wii recieves a message and the power is off it will glow. I believe they make docking stations that glow like the wii does.

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Neon Prodigy

July 7th, 2010 at 5:01 am

WoW lets see if I can make it easier to understand!

In the US neon is lit by high voltage transformers ranging from 2000 V to 15000 V with 20 – 60 ma variances. The longer the tube or series of tubes equals a larger transformer.

As for color,

Colors are provided by 1 of two rare earth gases, neon or argon here in the US. There are some facilities that however use other rare gases like helium, xenon and krypton to achieve specialty colors.

In clear tubes the gases emit the following colors when energized.

NEON = RED
ARGON (mercury added) = BLUE
HELIUM = PINK
XENON = BLUISH WHITE
KRYPTON = WHITE

In most commercial production of neon tubes in the US since using only 2 primary gases for filling the tubes other colors (spectrum) is gained by using phosphorous powdered tubes. When using a coated tube the colors are gained by the reaction of the UV properties of the energized gas within the phosphorous coating in the tube. The coating are made from variences of calcium, zinc, barium and aluminates. Color depths and brightness is achieved by the amount of an activation agent that is being used.

The following colors are achived when using argon (mercury) as a filling gas in combination of the following phosphors.

Calcium Silicate = Pink
Barium Magnesium = Dark Blue
Cacium Tungstate = Blue
Calcium Halophosphate = White
Zinc Silicate = Green

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Jason

July 25th, 2010 at 5:57 am

Adobe bought Macromedia back in April.

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ga17

August 2nd, 2010 at 7:13 am

If you buy some paper or plywood,paint it,and glue the model.

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VBAXLMan

August 10th, 2010 at 7:29 am

Where is the question?

Do a Binary file type with your own structure, and you can also encrypt it using functions online

You are asking something that takes ages to be done in a question/answer website?

mail me here, I can do it for you in VB6, VB2005 or VB2008

VBAXLMan

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Carling

August 11th, 2010 at 5:53 am

you're quiet safe there, Macromeadia is a well known company, and a lot of their software is already in your system. it as just done a up date for your flask player (flash player is for the web page video's and graphics)

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