Fireworks
Course Outline
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Week
1 - Paperwork and intro to Fireworks
- Fireworks
Basics - Chapter 1
- Document
Set-up - Chapter 2
- Colors
- Chapter 3
- Path
Tools - Chapter 4
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Week
2
- Selecting
Paths - Chapter 5
- Working
with Objects - Chapter 6
- Fills
- Chapter 7
- Strokes
- Chapter 8
- Assignment
- Design a Drink Can for a brand new beverage. Do not use
any existing color schemes or name.
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Week
3
- Mini
Project - Design a Logo and Several package designs for Hippity
Hoppity Candy: a box, bag/ package and a bar wrapper.
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Week
4
- Effects
- Chapter 9
- Text
- Chapter 10
- Working
with Pixels - Chapter 13
- Assignment
- Locate a photo and apply any Effect or Eye Candy option(s)
you want. Add some type of text on top of the photo.
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Week
5 -
- Mini
Project - Design a Flyer for an upcoming Art Gallery
Opening using Effects, Text, Photos and paths. Attach text
to path. Use the emboss and bevel tools.
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Week
6 -
- Importing
- Chapter 14
- Optimizing
- Chapter 15
- Animation's
- Chapter 16
- Assignment
- Find a piece of Clipart and import and Optimize it.
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Week
7 -
- Mini
Project - Design an Animation for Easter Greeting Card.
Include a bunny or chick, some eggs and a saying.
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Week
8 -
- HotSpots
and links - Chapter 17
- Behaviors
- Chapter 18
- Exporting
- Chapter 19
- Assignment
- Find a photo or graphic with multiple items
on it and add Hotspots with links.
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Week
9 -
- Final
Project - Design the look of a Web Page. Include a
photo or graphic with HotSpots and links, create Buttons,
and add a rollover effect to at least 1 button. Export the
"png"
to html format and open in UltraDev and look at it.
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