Discover the difference between live and traditional filters in Fireworks

Abigail Rudner

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Created:: 07 March 2007

User Level:: Advanced

Products:: Fireworks undefined or later

Discover the difference between live filters (formerly known at “live effects”) and traditional filters in Fireworks® 8. In this short video tutorial, you’ll learn the main difference between the two: live filters are infinitely changeable, while traditional filters are permanent. In addition, you’ll learn when it’s best to use one type of filter over the other.

video tutorial

Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds

Requirements

To complete this article, you will need the following software and files:

Fireworks 8

Sample file:

live_vs_traditional.zip (ZIP, 290K)

Prerequisite knowledge:

General knowledge of Fireworks

Where to go from here

For more information about Fireworks, see the following:

Creating reusable, flexible, custom Ajax loading animations in Fireworks 8, by Matt Stow
Image editing tricks with Fireworks by Jose Olarte 3
Import a PSD file into Flash via Fireworks by Michael Ninness

About the authors

Abigail Rudner is a designer with a passion for teaching. Seeing the need for her clients to understand how to design web, print, and motion graphics, she began to teach and write. She is an instructor at both California State University, and the Bay Area ideo Coalition in San Francisco. Abigail is the author of Fireworks MX Fundamentals (2002, New Riders), the co-author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Hands-On-Training (2002, Peachpit Press), and a contributing author of Fireworks MX Magic (2002, New Riders). Her design clients include Nokia, Levi's, Wells Fargo, Dow Jones, America Online, Absolute Vodka, The SYDA Foundation, Amgen, Apple Computers, Microsoft, Radius, FAD and Publish magazines.

Excerpted from “Fireworks 8 Essential Training with: Abigail Rudner.” Published by lynda.com © 2006. Used with the permission of lynda.com. To purchase the full-length video-based training title, visit www.lynda.com.