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35 Excellent Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

Fireworks doesn’t get as much attention as some of the other products from Adobe, but it is still a valuable resource for many designers. If you’re interested in improving your skills with Fireworks, here are some of the best tutorials available.

Circular Shadows and Highlights

Classy Personal Portfolio in Fireworks

Apple Air Banner in Fireworks

Extracting Logos

Designing for Mobile Devices Using Fireworks CS4

Golden Seal

Create a Night Scene

Text Wrapping

Photo Realistic

Working with the Adobe Text Engine in Fireworks CS4

Designing a Media Player Skin in Fireworks

Designing a Website Application with Fireworks CS4

Shiny Ribbon

Amazing Neon Lights in Fireworks

Exporting CSS and Images in Fireworks CS4

Creating an Interactive PDF File from a Multipage Document in Fireworks CS4

Creating a Cool Website Header in Fireworks

Fireworks CS4 Photoshop Integration (video)

Fireworks CS4 Layout Tools (video)

Fireworks CS4 Beta for Web Design

Fireworks 101

Fireworks: 7 Steps Colored Lights Header

Grooveshark Design Style in Fireworks

Page Curl Tutorial

Creating the iPhone Frame on Fireworks

Light Painting in Fireworks

Creating a Vibrant Digital Collage Mixing Buildings and Vector Shapes on Paper

Abduzeedo Job Board Banner in Fireworks

Creating Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks

Night Vision Effect in Fireworks

Mini Layout Inspired on 9rules Design

Vector Masking Interlocking Letters (video)

Creating an Old Paper Effect with Fireworks

Icon in Fireworks Tutorial

Optimize Photos in Fireworks

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30 Responses from Readers

jaswinder virdee November 2nd, 2008

Awesome set of tuts for an awesome piece of software :)

Calvin Froedge November 3rd, 2008

I admit. I bought Fireworks CS3 and opened it once. Yes, once.

Steven Snell November 4th, 2008

Calvin,
So it wasn’t the best investment you ever made? Well, if you ever want to open it a second time you’ll have some tutorials to work through.

rkms November 4th, 2008

How does fireworks fare when compared with adobe photoshop ? More specifically, is it necessary to buy fireworks if you already have adobe photoshop? Especially since both are graphics software.

I have not used fireworks and hence this query. All the same, you have a great collection of tutorials. Really nice.

Gunnar Andreassen November 4th, 2008

Great! Emailing this to my webdesigner :-)

Steven Snell November 4th, 2008

rkms,
Fireworks and Photoshop are not the same even though they both work with graphics. One notable difference is that Fireworks is better for site layouts, although Photoshop can be used for this as well. My opinion is that Fireworks is not essential, but certainly has a purpose. This link from Smashing Magazine will give you a more in-depth look at Fireworks.

Erwin Heiser November 4th, 2008

Awesome! Always good to see sites give Fireworks some love :)

Sergi Bosch November 22nd, 2008

half a year ago i could only find tutorials on how to create such awesome graphic effects using photoshop. i’m way more adept at fireworks, so it’s a pleasure and a relief to find this page. thanks for taking the time to develop it.

Twum Barima December 1st, 2008

Big ups to the brains behind the various tutorials.I think this is something that needs to be encouraged. For a beginner like me, this tutorials on fireworks will go a long way in helping me come up with some awesome graphics in Ghana.

anjum December 10th, 2008

This site is very useful and attractive for fireworks learners as them I like also and appreciate your efforts and devotion to serve public and especially for students I am getting benefits from it and improving my skill and filling fond and hope that u will much dense this site with such attractive tutorials and pray for ur long life and wishes much good for u, thanks

Sumeet December 28th, 2008

Lovely and very useful tips and tutorials. Really awesome. Thanks for all the efforts

Rachna January 6th, 2009

More Fireworks tutorials can be seen at http://www.entheosweb.com/fireworks/default.asp

Christopher Ross January 6th, 2009

I did a nice adobe fireworks tutorial on How to Make Awesome 3d Icons in Adobe Fireworks a few weeks back, there’s even a video of the process.

Britt March 4th, 2009

YAY!!! Im new at Fireworks, and Im loving it already thanks to your tutorials. Its really appreciated. Great Job on all of them!

mustafa hajjar March 9th, 2009

i really like these tutorials.
was very usefull.
thank you

Horoskopas March 10th, 2009

I liked the neon lights the most!
great job,
keep going
Vika

zaidimai March 21st, 2009

“Amazing Neon Lights in Fireworks” is the best one, I LOVED IT

Regards

denise milani nip March 22nd, 2009

thank you for this thread, I tried “Photo Realistic” and it worked really fine with me

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