Adobe Fireworks CS3 & Upgrade to CS4 will be provided.

Rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces with Adobe Fireworks CS4 software. Create and optimize images for the web more quickly and accurately than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Adobe Fireworks CS4 software brings web designers improved Live Styles, Smart Guides, and CSS export. Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR application prototyping are fully supported, along with high-fidelity Adobe PDF output and Adobe ConnectNow live meetings.

Rapidly prototype and design for the web:

• Exporting Adobe PDF files is effortless
  Generate high-fidelity PDF documents from your Fireworks design comps to improve communication with your clients.

• Superb design tools are at your fingertips
  Apply lighting and shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including seven new Adobe Photoshop blend modes, to add depth and character to text and symbols.

• Education discounts are available
  As a student or educator, you qualify for education pricing. See the full list of products available for purchase.

KEY FEATURES:

• Sophisticated prototyping
  Creatively design interactive layouts for websites and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Export website comps to Adobe Dreamweaver software as standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, and bring RIA prototypes into Adobe Flex software with professional-quality coding.

• Superb design tools
  Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files. Apply effects, styles, and blend modes to add depth and character to text and symbols.

• Optimization and scaling tools
  Optimize graphics for virtually any scenario with preview, selective JPEG compression, and a wide range of export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols with 9-slice scaling to accelerate website and application prototyping.

• Intelligent integration
  Import Photoshop PSD files while retaining layers, effects, and blend modes and save Adobe Fireworks PNG files in native Photoshop format. Copy and paste objects from Fireworks CS4 into Dreamweaver CS4 or Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software.

• RIA authoring support
  Prototype layouts for RIAs in Fireworks and then export them directly to Adobe Flex, while retaining absolute positioning, styling, and professional-quality coding.

• Cross-platform support
  Work how you want to work: Fireworks CS4 is available for PowerPC and Intel based Macs as well as Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.

• CSS export
  Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete with external style sheets, in one step. Integrate foreground and background graphics with new slice types.

• Client collaboration
  Demo in a real-time online meeting with the Adobe ConnectNow service. Generate high-fidelity PDF files or interactive HTML comps for review. Create an Adobe AIR prototype to run on any platform.

• Customizable and reusable assets
  Jump-start your design process with a Common Library of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations. Expand your collection with your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design.

• Improved performance
  Work faster and smarter with overall performance enhancements, from file opening and saving to symbol updates and intensive bitmap and vector operations.

NEW FEATURES:

• PDF export
  Generate high-fidelity, protected PDF documents from your Fireworks comps for client communication. Help safeguard your designs with password protection - separate passwords can be created for viewing and other tasks such as printing, copying, and commenting

• Improved performance
  Work faster and smarter with overall performance enhancements, from file opening and saving to symbol updates and intensive bitmap and vector operations

• New user interface
  Easily switch from other Adobe Creative Suite 4 components - such as Adobe Fireworks CS4, Illustrator CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional software - thanks to a universal user interface design.

• Enhanced type handling
  Produce exceptional type designs with the enhanced typesetting capabilities of the Adobe text engine. Import or copy/paste double-byte characters from Illustrator (CS3 or CS4) and Photoshop (CS3 or CS4) without loss of fidelity. Float text inside a path for high-impact logos.

• Styles panel upgrades
  Work more efficiently with the enhanced Styles panel. With the click of an icon, choose between default Fireworks styles, current document styles, or styles from other libraries. Multiple style sets can easily be accessed.

• Workspace improvements
  Quickly place Smart Guides on your canvas for swift, accurate positioning and measurement of guides and elements. Edit symbols in place for precise symbol refinement in context with the rest of your design.

• Symbol enhancements
  Fireworks CS4 symbols have also taken a big step forward with in-place editing--modifying the symbol without having to jump to a separate window. Now you can precisely refine your symbol while keeping an eye on the larger picture of your canvas. Moreover, one of the most valuable features of symbol editing, 9-slice scaling, is now available for any type of object--pixel, vector, group, or text area. Symbol properties are now even more robust with support of nested symbols (one symbol inside another) in Fireworks CS4.

• Adobe Kuler integration
  Access the latest color themes from the Adobe Kuler web-hosted service right in Fireworks to sample and apply to your web designs. Craft color harmonies for your own use or to upload to Kuler.

• Adobe ConnectNow integration
  esigners often need to discuss comps and layouts with their clients to iron out specific details, but face-to-face meetings can be costly and e-mail communication is often too slow. Fireworks CS4 brings clients and designers together for real-time online meetings through its connection with Adobe ConnectNow, one of the services offered on Acrobat.com. Now you can meet live over the web to share your screen, present creative concepts and prototypes, and brainstorm with up to two online guests for no additional service charge.

Creative Pro Online Services
Connect to the power of the online community through your creative desktop. New online services accessed from within Fireworks CS4 let you search for help from the online community; share your screen with colleagues or clients in a few quick clicks; get color inspiration from your peers and more. In addition to Adobe Kuler and Adobe ConnectNow (an Acrobat.com service), discussed earlier in this document, other Creative Pro Online Services available with Fireworks include Adobe Community Help and Adobe Bridge Home. With these new online services in Creative Suite 4, you can take your ideas to the next level.

Adobe Community Help
Get the power of an online search engine within your Creative Suite 4 software, but with more targeted results thanks to Adobe Community Help. Searchable content includes the in-depth product-specific Help Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need, fast. Simply choose Help > Fireworks Help. (Internet connection required for extended content.)

Adobe Bridge Home
Visit Bridge Home--an online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4--and stay up to date with what's new from Adobe and the design, web development, and video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 software, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you work smarter and faster, making the most of your Creative Suite 4 software. (Internet connection required.)

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