From the course: Fireworks CS6 Essential Training
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Working with bitmaps - Fireworks Tutorial
From the course: Fireworks CS6 Essential Training
Working with bitmaps
Although Fireworks is primarily a Vector Drawing application, it does have a good section of tools for dealing with Bitmaps. So let's take a look. A Bitmap is a graphic that is made up of a series of pixels. A photo like this always has to be a bitmap, but things like logos and artwork with few colors can be represented as bitmaps or vectors. A vector shape is resolution independent. So whenever possible you should use vectors because they are scaled nicely without losing resolution. So Fireworks has a couple of Bitmap Drawing tools. I'm going to make a new document here to show you how to work with them. So I'll do 900 pixels by 500 pixels here, and I'll just get a clean canvas. You can see all the Bitmap Drawing Tools are right here in Fireworks. So you can draw with something like a Brush tool just by clicking on it. You've got a few options right here, setting up the Color and the Size and the type of brush that you're using. So if I click and drag, you can see that I can draw…
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