40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG files
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Adobe Fireworks is getting popular than ever, many web designers find a lot of fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Fireworks to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these Adobe Fireworks tutorials are for you.
So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, resources and .PNG downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next adobe fireworks effect.
1. Add Radial Gradient in Text
A tutorial which will give you step-by-step instructions to create a peeling effect. Great for placing in a corner of a website to reveal news or offers.
Download .PNG file is available
2. Add Radial Gradient in Text
A tutorial which will give you step-by-step instructions to create a peeling effect. Great for placing in a corner of a website to reveal news or offers.
3. Awesome Light Effects in Fireworks inspired by the James White’s O series
This tutorial will reproduce James White’s style using Fireworks. The process is simple, just playing with some circles, blend modes and a bit of color!
4. Abstrakter Effekt in Fireworks
This tutorial will teach you how to create an abstract effect in adobe fireworks.
Download .PNG file is available
5. Extracting Logos
This tutorial will show you how to extract a logo and/or logotype from a raster image, using only Adobe Fireworks Live Filters. With this method, you also have the option to re-color the lifted logo in anyway you want: solid, gradient, or textured. All of this, while avoiding the temptations of the quick-and-dirty Wand Tool.
Download .PNG file is available
6. Circular Shadows & Highlights
Gradients and masks are all it takes to create lighting effects for circular shapes in Adobe Fireworks. Generate as many layers of shadows and highlights as you need. This tutorial will start by putting into a canvas a circular graphic to add shadows and highlights to.
Download .PNG file is available
7. Simple Orbs Tutorial
The Simple Orbs Tutorial is a very simple technique , yet it could add some dramatic touches to your design. It is just one layer object but you can replicate it over and over, and change the sizes.
Download .PNG file is available
8. Papel de Parede 2009
Learn how to create a grass text effect in adobe fireworks.
Download .PNG file is available
9. Create a vector in Adobe Fireworks
This is a video tutorial that will teach you how to create a vector graphic in Adobe fireworks.
10. How to make Animations and Animated Graphics in Adobe Fireworks
11. Text effect download
Download .PNG file is available
12. Creating the iPhone Interface on Fireworks
Learn how to create the iphone interface on Fireworks.
Download .PNG file is available
13. Fireworks 101
This tutorial will cover some basic functionalities and it’s very useful for those willing to improve their Fireworks skills. You will learn how to play with paths, combining, subtracting and much more. Also you will end up creating a logo.
14. Creating the IE7 logo effect in Fireworks
Learn how to recreate the IE7 logo in Fireworks.
15. Remove Foreground Object in Fireworks/Photoshop
Learn how remove a foreground object from a picture and keep the background with amendments to make it appear as though the object was never there to begin with.
16. Adobe Fireworks: Text to path
Sometimes we want to align or place our text freely, without having to limit our self to vertical and horizontal view only. Maybe we want to create some so called typography art – which requires us to place text in, let say, a circle, or any free form shapes, created using pen tools. With Adobe Fireworks, you can easily attach texts onto any shape or path created using pen tools.
17. Beautiful night scene
You don’t have to be Van Gogh to create a beautiful night scene. Fireworks artist Angelo Sabal will show you how you can easily create a realistic night sky using Fireworks.
18. Creating Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create some cool effects with fading light linear vectors in Fireworks. It’s really easy to do and takes just a few minutes. Create fading lights using vectors, then convert these vectors into bitmaps, and learn to use effects from Fireworks CS3.
19. Pixelate Effect Tutorial
Have you ever wanted to create a pixelize look on your designs but you didn’t know how? Well here is your answer ! In this tutorial you will learn how to install 3rd party plugins in adobe fireworks and use them.
20. Awesome Floral Type in Fireworks and Photoshop in 5 minutes
Download .PSD file is available, you can open in fireworks as well
21. Creating A Thick Text Outline
22. Masking Effects Using Bitmap Masking
Learn to use layer masks (Group as Mask) in Fireworks CS3 to create faded image silhouettes.
23. waterDrop
Download .PNG file is available
24. Sticky Notes
Sticky notes are little pieces of bright-colored paper with an adhesive strip on the back, allowing you to jot down reminders, checklists, or *gasp* passwords and post them onto a surface. This Adobe® Fireworks tutorial will show you how to recreate them digitally, with a certain degree of realism, for your own design projects.
Download .PNG file is available
25. Create Vista-like Wallpapers with Fireworks
Download .PNG file is available
26. Fireworks 101
This tutorial will go through some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel.
27. Amazing Neon Lights on Fireworks
This tutorial will go through a few steps to create neon effects on Fireworks.
28. Glowing light trail
This tutorial will teach you how to create a colourful glowing light trail. This is rather a simple tutorial that can be performed in only 6 basic steps.
29. Exporting CSS and images in Fireworks CS4
Wouldn’t it be nice to simply draw a website design in Fireworks and then instantly export the HTML, CSS code, and all associated files required to display the page, so that all the files are ready to upload to your web server. This article describes the new “CSS and Images” export option available in Fireworks CS4 and gives tips for getting the best results out of it.
30. Create Windows vista buttons
31. Create a Slideshow in Adobe Fireworks CS4
This tutorial will teach you how to create a beautiful slideshow gallery with transition effects, categories, captions and resizable images in Fireworks CS4.
Click here to view the finished gallery
32. How to Change the Colour of an Image Object in Adobe Fireworks
Quite often, when searching for a relevant image to go on a new website we are designing, we’ll find one that’s almost right, but not quite! Read on to find out how simple it is to change the colour of a selected part of an image in Adobe Fireworks.
33. An example of how to create a computer mouse
34. Light Painting in Fireworks
How to create Light Painting in Fireworks.
Worth Checking Resources
- 131 Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Fireworks
This set is based on Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Photoshop and is re-done for Fireworks.
- 75 Powerful Adobe Fireworks Extensions
Here are some of the best 75 Adobe Fireworks Extensions (MXP), nearly all are compatabile with Fireworks MX, 8 and CS3 (and quite a few with Fireworks 3 and 4).
- Fireworks Developer Center
- List of Fireworks compatible plug ins
- The Things You Might Have Missed
- Rapid prototyping in Fireworks CS3
Let’s take a quick look at how the prototyping process works today in the real world.
Really really good. I love all the resources here. A definite bookmark!
Good post Noura! I’ve been wanting to learn Fireworks, and have been looking for a good list of resources to start with! This is perfect!
Really nice list. And thanks for posting three of my tutorials in here =)
You guys rock !
I’m a Fireworks nut in a world of Photoshop fans, so this is right up my ally – thanks!!
i love Fireworks!
Awesome list! Thanks for sharing! Noupe is really a great source for web design!!
That’s a BIG list, i know most of them but the neon lights effect rocks!
great list !
Hmmm really nice list.I like a lot nr.8.
Great. I was really looking for a list like this. Gone drawing lol :)
Great list. Thanks so much :D
man, this article is extremely useful! Bookmarking this one for later use. Thanks!
Wow, great list, very useful. thanks
nice list of fireworks resources, thanks..
Great to see Fireworks getting some mainstream love! Excellent post!
This post makes me so happy! I love Fireworks but see so little mention of it.
Congratulations on deleting my comment.
#10 still has nothing to do with Adobe Fireworks though.
I was waiting for you to come back :)
I guess its not hard to point out an error or a mistake without being rude. What me or anyone else don’t like is being rude.
Anyway, thanks for pointing that out and its fixed now.
@everyone feel free to send me your feedback or suggestions about this post or any thing you want to be covered on Noupe. I really appreciate it a lot.
wow thanks for making this list. i love fireworks, been using for more than 4 years and the best part is it also runs in ubuntu via wine. :)
wow. maybe i will actually open fireworks and mess around, thanks for getting me started!
Awesome resources. Thank you for sharing!
wow Ive seen already many tutorials dedicated for photoshop ,but this time its time for Fireworks,thanks for this stuff,I really need this,so thank you very much
Thanks for featuring our tutorials at ITM Design!
Thanks, Super designers
Wow.the pics are so cool
Admirable post like always.
Fireworks is a program for those that don’t want to learn html, css, ect… but they want to be a webmaster (and the web is full of professional websites done with fireworks).
nice collection
Great list that you have here!
A keeper!!! I am big FIREWORKS user! Great List
Fireworks is my main tool and it can do awesome things, its not photoshop but it covers a lot
This site totally rocks! Love all the Fireworks tutorials and resource links.
Awesome! Thank you.
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