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First tutorial (to achieve this stunning effect):

Fireworks How To: The Ultimate Aqua Button (tutorial) (by Brian Edgin)

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If you still didn’t send your Fireworks tutorial — now’s the moment, as the contest is extended ’till end of March!

I avow, that I didn’t yet send anything, because I started writing my tutorial in the evening of February 28th, and after approx. 2 hours of writing and taking screenshots I got at a dead end and… went to bed:)

Now I have the chance to make a revanche and finally create my first tutorial about my favourite graphics program ;-)

Do you use Macromedia Adobe Fireworks?

Do you love graphic design?

Did you ever tried to write a tutorial?

If the answers to at least the first two questions is ‘yes’, then the following info might be intersting to you:

Fireworks Zone is holding a contest for best Fireworks tutorial.

Here you can find detailed info about the contest.

The contest is sponsored by GenoPal (color selection software).

Here follow the contest’s regulations, in short:

• Everybody can participate.
• The contest has already started, but you still have more than a week to jump in (the contest started on January 28th and will end on February 28th 2008.)
• Prizes (first, second, third): Genopal Pro v1.0 worth USD 49.95 (first and second prize win an additional bonus!;-)
• The tutorials of the three winners will be published on the Fireworks Zone website.
• Language is English. Possible formats: HTML document/Fireworks .PNG/MS Word document.
• if you wish to participate, send your tutorial to: webmaster(a.t.)fireworkszone.com (change the (a.t.) part with the @ sign, of course;-)
• More info? Here! :-)

Good luck, if you’ll participate! (I might participate, too, if I find a couple of free hours this week…) :-)

PS FZ is a good resource for Fireworks users. It is created and supported by Thierry Lorey (who wrote, for example, the tutorial How to create 3D crystals with Fireworks — on this tutorial even I tried my humble Fw skills;-) — if you have any questions regarding the contest, don’t hesitate to write to Thierry! :-)

Here’s a pencil:

It’s made with Fireworks;-)

I’ll write a short tutorial one of these days, maybe, on how you can easily re-create it using Fireworks, but not today, ’cause I’m too sleepy right now:)

Today’s been ‘play day’. I’ve been doing some tutorials for Adobe Fireworks (and also Flash).

One of them was a tutorial on how to create 3D-looking crystals with Fireworks, by Thierry Lorey.

Here are the links to it:

Introduction &
The tutorial itself.

And here are my humble tries to reproduce the effect in Fireworks:

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I saw a funny post about a robot which cleans your house and laughed a lot (found via antonia.del.bg).

But I got a little be annoyed that the author of the comic strip maybe thinks that watching TV is the thing which’ll make his life easier and more efficient. You save time… to be in front of the TV set? Hmm…

Here’s my version (redrawn quickly with Macromedia Fireworks):

(Because I’m lucky, the author has published the picture under CC and I can make changes to it, by mentioning him as the original author:-)

And I have gave up television totally a few years ago. We do not have a TV at home, and do not plan to have any in the future.

You can gain so much free time by getting rid of it!

Time used for drawing for your own pleasure, for example:)))

PS This is not a joke:)

You asked for it - so here it is! Michel with a twin - again! (See also this post: The Double Michel - inspired by Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir)

The tutorial?

You’ll have to wait a bit more - it’s cooking right now:-)

I avow, that this post by the famous photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir (no, don’t ask me to pronounce this Icelandic name!:-) inspired me… And also a question on the same subject, which my wife asked me a few days ago:

How this is done? And this?
Can a normal digital camera be used for this purpose?

Can the technique be reproduced using Macromedia Fireworks?

So, here’s the answer:

It could be done using a variety of methods.

Yes.

Yes.

The results are shown above [click on the thumbnail to see the image in full size]:-)

This is it - short and sweet. It’s me in the office today, shot by my small Pentax Optio S40 digital camera. And this is me, again… although, my second me is holding a knife and looks a bit evil;-)

If there’s interest, I may try to write a tutorial on it:-)

A while ago I posted two Yahoo! logos on my website, asking the audience to tell, which one is the original Yahoo! logo made by Yahoo! and which I have re-created using Macromedia Fireworks.

Now comes the long-awaited answer:

Yahoo! logo #1 is the one I made, and Yahoo! logo #2 is the original Yahoo! logo from the Yahoo! Messenger starting screen, captured as screenshot while the Yahoo! Messenger was loading.

I thank everyone for their participation, votes and comments:-)

I’d like to thank you here especially Alan Musselman from Adobe (formerly Macromedia), whose answer and comment was one of the most thougthtful and thouroughful ones:

Definitely the one on the left (#1). The only way I noticed is the Y is not proper like the Yahoo! branding. :) Good job though… I will also say the shadow on the teeth is a little stronger on #1 as well. If it wasn’t for these two things I wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference. :)

Both remarks are correct - the “Y” wasn’t perfectly made, and the shadow on the teeth is a bit different. Also, a lot of people reported that Y! logo #2 is somewhat saved with a bit worse compression than Y! logo #1 and because of that they presume #2 is the original logo, because probably it’s a screenshot and thus, was saved with worse compression and some artifacts, while #1 was exported from a high-quality vector-based file.

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OK, today’s riddle:

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