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Linda Rathgeber

Linda Rathgeber-Stewart

Playing With Fire
Project VII

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Background
  3. Adding Texture
  4. The Image Layer
  5. A Header
Created:
15 March 2004
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Fireworks

Creating a Collage with Fireworks

For a Fireworks enthusiast, there’s nothing more fun than spending time playing around with new techniques. The project that follows is the result of a day’s worth of experimentation, and is one of many projects included in my new Fireworks e-book, Razzle Dazzle. You can learn more about Razzle Dazzle here: http://www.webdevbiz.com/pwf/razzle.cfm

Collages are two-dimensional reliefs of artistically arranged materials such as photos, newspaper, wallpaper, printed text and illustrations, cloth, and string. While you can’t assemble a two-dimensional work on screen, Fireworks comes loaded with the tools you need to create the illusion of two, and even three dimensional objects. I’ll walk you through a few of them in this article.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Fireworks MX 2004

Tutorials and sample files:

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About the author

Linda Rathgeber-Stewart, a Project VII team member, is a former editor and layout artist for The Holistic Resource Magazine. Since turning freelance, her design contractors include Roubaix Interactive, Easter Associates, Webeze, Electric Sage Designs, and Great Web Sights. Her work has been featured by Macromedia, King Pictures, FlashBang Media, and Project VII. Linda's writing credits include the book Playing with Fire: Tapping the Power of Macromedia Fireworks 4. She is a contributor to New Rider's Dreamweaver Magic book series, to Project VII publications, and has written articles for MX Insite magazine, MX Developer magazine, and the Macromedia Developer Center. She is currently developing a series of Design Aid Kits to "conjure up the sleeping artist in everyone who was brainwashed into believing they can't draw." Linda lives in Sumter, South Carolina, with a monitor pet named Missy and two reliable but aging Dell PCs. She can be reached at lightly@sc.rr.com.