Fireworks for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

By Ke-Lin Du, M N S Swamy, M.N.S. Swamy

Fireworks is an integrated, all-in-one tool for producing graphics and animations for the Web. This guide to this Web graphic production tool provides a step-by-step format to help new users get up and running quickly. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020135361X
• ISBN13: 9780201353617
• Release Date: January 1900
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Exponentially better than Macromedia's User manual

You'll be elated with this book's Complete coverage of Fireworks. It's abundantly clear the author intensely researched Fireworks, then painstakingly wrote, re-wrote, organized, and laid out this easy to follow tutorial and thorough reference.But don't take my word for it, take Lynda Weinman's. AFTER learning Fireworks and producing a video about Fireworks, Lynda Weinman (no slouch, herself) next read this book. She...

A excellent book for learning Fireworks

I think the Visual QuickStart Guide for Fireworks is a excellent book for those people who need learning a good program for web graphics. Fireworks is that program, and this book is the book you need. Is concise, very good distributed in chapters and ther is a lot of techniques for improve the work with Fireworks. The Visual QuickStart Guide are not the most complete reference for learning all posible, but if you have not...

Excellent Book to Learn Fireworks

This is the second Quickstart Guide by Sandee Cohen I have purchased, and it is as well done as her excellent one on FreeHand. I actually read Cohen's book before reading the Fireworks manual and felt comfortable with Fireworks immediately. As a graphic designer, I don't have much free time to waste and this book made it easy to get up to speed with this new software. Cohen's streamlined writing style cuts to the heart...

Very good, concise, no filler

Like other books in the Visual Quickstart series, this one is concise and to the point. It is not a tutorial on Web graphics and the descriptions offer very little embellishment.There are two handy appendices with references for shortcut keys and built-in effects/patterns/etc.For experienced graphics developers who just need a reference for this new application, this is a great resource. The book is simple, direct, and...