“I first got involved with Fireworks about 10 years ago,” says Tom Green. “I was doing work in Director and found creating bevelled buttons in Photoshop to be a convoluted process at best. I feel in love with Fireworks when I discovered the same process involved a couple of mouse clicks. Haven’t looked back since.”
In his brand-spanking-new video2brain course, Mastering Fireworks CS5, Tom shares with you what he has learned in the last 10 years. After showing you around the Fireworks interface, he teaches you about vector drawing, working with bitmaps and text, masking, creating symbols, wireframing, and much more.
“Where Fireworks CS5 really shines is in the creation of screen-based graphics and website and mobile project prototyping,” says Tom. “You can move from wireframe to click-through in relatively short order, and the pages feature is a godsend. As we move 
into a more interactive approach to websites through HTML5 and CSS3 , Fireworks is starting to gain some serious attention. Designers and developers are discovering a nifty emerging workflow between Fireworks and Edge, Muse, and even jQuery.”
Mastering Fireworks CS5 uses a project-based approach to the techniques presented, showing you where Fireworks fits into the workflow for digital media projects — from simple web page prototyping to interface design for rich Internet applications. For a free sample, check out this video where Tom explains how to apply masking techniques to a website prototype.
