News & Announcements

Artisteer Makes Creating WordPress Themes Easy

April 24 2009 - I just stumbled across a great new tool that makes creating WordPress themes easy. Artisteer does a lot of the dirty work for you as a designer or blogger wanting a more customized theme for your blog. Learn more about it.

Adobe Fireworks Beta Now Available!

Adobe has made available Fireworks CS4 beta. This new version of Fireworks has some key new features that Fireworks users of old and new will appreciate. The first thing you're sure to notice is the new interface. (Read on...)

(Above: Adobe Fireworks CS4 Beta)

Favicon Command for Fireworks

I found this useful command for Fireworks offered by John Dunning. Check it out.

Introducing Thermo

If you haven't heard the buzz yet regarding Adobe's new program Thermo, or haven't a clue what it is, let alone what it's for, Adobe has posted an excellent video presentation explaining Thermo's proposed capabilities. Basically Thermo helps designers create Flex applications in a visual way, meaning non-programmers like me, can build interactive content for the web. If it pans out like the presentation shows all I can say is WOW!

For more information visit: http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2007/video/index.html?trackingid=BOYND

Fireworks CS3 Kuler Panel

Fireworks users can now use Kuler inside of Adobe Fireworks CS3 with this new panel. It's still considered as a beta release but it's here:

http://pixelfumes.blogspot.com/2007/08/adobe-fireworks-cs3-kuler-panel.html

Some Indispensable Fireworks Commands and Panels

Over the past few months several new Fireworks Commands and Panels have been made available to the Fireworks community. There are a few of them that I have found quite indispensable as a designer. One extension that I have found extremely helpful is Smart Punch, created by John Dunning. This commands allows you to select several paths or bitmaps and punch them into the bottom most object. Without this extension only one object can be punched into another at a time in Fireworks - I found this out when trying to create a stamp image a couple years ago. I bet it took me ten times longer to create the same effect without the Smart Punch command! At the end of this article I have provided a link to the extension. You'll find a full description and video tutorial of it there as well.

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