Optimizing and sizing your image in Fireworks

Fireworks CS6 has been called a web designers toolbox. …And in many respects that is a true statement. …It works with vectors, it works with pixels. …And in this exercise, you're going to discover that not only does it work with …vectors and pixels, but it also deals with a key component of working with …images on the web. Small equals fast. …And you can create very small and efficient images very quickly in …Fireworks. Now to get yourself started, open up the …DSC_33.jpg image located in your exercise folder.…

And when it opens you're looking from the side of Mount Stockhorn in Switzerland. …Now if we come into the interface here and we just take a look at the size of …the image, it's 3,800 by 2,500. This is not going to work in animate, …especially when we're dealing with an image that needs to be 550 by 400 pixels …high. So how do we do that quickly? …Well, what you do is select the image, and you come to modify canvas, image …size. And you notice that these are links, so …that means they're proportional, so if I change this to 550, I'm a little short …