Graphic Design and Animation with Fireworks

Introduce your students to key graphic design and animation techniques using these two resources! No prior experience needed, the aim of these tutorials is to introduce complete beginners to using Fireworks graphic design software!

Start your students on learning the basic concepts of graphic design. In this tutorial they will learn how to:

• create a new canvas and edit it
• add vector shapes
• layering
• using creative shape fills
• using filters
• group shapes and images
• add an external image onto Fireworks
• use the magic wand tool
• transform an image
• use the brush tool
• add text
• use the eraser
• zoom in and out

Challenge tasks to demonstrate the use of each skill have been included.

Once your students have grasped these skills, introduce them to frame-by-frame animation. In this tutorial they will learn how to:

• prepare a document for animating
• use states
• use the onion skin tool
• create frame-by-frame animation
• save an animation project
• convert an animation into a gif
• create a new scene

An animation challenge and extension task has been included within this tutorial too.