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Creating an icon in Fireworks


Vane Kosturanov

Vane Kosturanov

dryicons.com

Vanco Stojkov

Vanco Stojkov

dryicons.com

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Preparations for icon creation
  3. Development steps
Created:
19 February 2008
User Level:
Beginner, Intermediate
Products:
Fireworks

Adobe Fireworks is a familiar tool to a significant subset of web developers. There are many reasons for this. In addition to the benefits of integrating with Dreamweaver, Fireworks has an easy-to-use interface and includes a wide array of web-focused features. The image creation, slicing, and optimization tools make Fireworks extremely useful for both beginning and advanced users alike.

Because graphic elements are fundamental to high-quality web design, they require extra attention. Web icons—the basic ingredients of any well-designed site—have a special place in this group. Creating icons with Fireworks is easy, and it is also a really productive way to create your site files. This article provides a step-by-step guide to creating a folder icon in Fireworks.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you'll need the following software and files:

Fireworks CS3

Sample files:

Prerequisite knowledge

This article assumes that you have a basic understanding of Fireworks or some prior experience working with a similar design application.

Creative Commons License
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About the authors

Vane Kosturanov is one of the cofounders of a small, friendly company called Rabotilnica (translated from Macedonian meaning "workshop"). Currently he works as a creative director at the DryIcons.com project. He is also very passionate about his painting (kosturanov.com) and spends most of his free time in his studio. Playing the guitar is his favorite hobby, although he is a lousy singer.

Vanco Stojkov is currently involved in the web development and optimization activities of the DryIcons.com project as leader of the development team. The inevitable self-improvement required by the permanently evolving modern IT technologies effectively fills almost all of his free time, not leaving much space for the second most important thing in life: soccer.