Suite Integration
Be sure to take advantage of the tight integration of Fireworks CS4 with the other applications in the Creative Suite. [...]
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Global Styles
Create, apply, or save a style directly from the Property inspector. Click the New Style icon to create a style. [...]
Flow Text in a Path
By selecting a text object and a closed path object and selecting the option Text>Attach In Path, the text block [...]
Navigate Pages at the Touch of a Button
To easily navigate through your pages, use the Page Up and Page Down keys on your keyboard or use the [...]
The Power of the Path Panel
The Path panel (Window>Others>Path) offers access to advanced vector features that make you more productive when prototyping and designing in [...]
Visually Resize Canvas
You can quickly add canvas to your document. Just double-click the Crop tool icon (shortcut, type C) in the Toolbox [...]
Rounded Rectangles
You can change the rectangle Roundness in the Property inspector from percentages (%) to pixels (px). This is helpful when [...]
Reuse Attributes
A very powerful feature in Fireworks is the ability to quickly add the same look and feel of one object [...]
Find and Replace
Quickly find and replace color, fonts, or even URLs using the Find panel located at Edit>Find (Command-F [PC: Ctrl-F]). When [...]
Automate Repetitive Steps
For every action performed on the canvas, a step is generated in the History panel (Window>History). You can then select [...]
Auto-Blend and Much, Much More
New to the Auto-Blend control in CS4 is the ability to choose between a panorama and a stack of images. [...]
Old Behaviors in the New Curves Dialog
Curves, long the backbone of image adjustment, continue to grow both more powerful and easier to use. In CS4, the [...]
Presets, Presets, Presets
In addition to freeing the power of adjustment layers from a static, modal dialog (via the Adjustments panel), CS4 now [...]
3D: Auto-Hide Layers for Better Performance
To greatly improve performance while interacting with 3D objects, you can turn on Auto-hide Layers for Performance in the 3D [...]
3D: Finding Paintable Areas
Photoshop uses a project-based painting model which means that 3D objects need to be positioned parallel to the screen so [...]
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