The Layers panel in Fireworks CS4 is integral to the design process. This powerful panel of useful features makes it possible for you to control the visibility, locking status, stacking order, and overall organization of your document. But that just scratches the surface of this part of Fireworks because the Layers panel also allows you to share common elements between layers, control slices that will be exported as individual image files. The Layers panel is also the area where you can set the level of opacity and add blend modes to create unique effects.

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No matter how much you plan ahead, there will be times when you need to readjust the dimensions of the elements in your Fireworks document to make them fit your design better. Happily, Fireworks CS4 makes it simple to make these kind of adjustments.

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Web developers and designers are always striving to achieve pixel-perfect accuracy. Fireworks CS4 includes new layout tools that offer many new capabilities for aligning, measuring, and laying out the elements in your document.

This section describes how to add, hide, and clear guides and how you can set the new consolidated guide and grid preferences. We show you how to use the new guide measurements so you can quickly find the dimensions for a particular area of your design. I also cover two features that are brand new to Fireworks CS4: Smart Guides and tooltips.

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Fireworks CS4 is a versatile image editing tool, capable of editing and manipulating both vector and bitmap graphics. Being able to combine both raster and vector images in a single document and have complete control over both types is a huge advantage—and saves you production time because you can make most of your graphic changes directly in Fireworks.

This section focuses on the various ways you can edit and update bitmap graphics to fit your project. We cover the process involved in scaling bitmap graphics and give some recommendations when doing so.

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Fireworks uses PNG as its native file format. However, Fireworks PNG files include editing information and special metadata that does not exist in regular Portable Network Graphics files. It's important to know the difference between these different types of PNG files and name them accordingly. In addition to providing information on how to do so, this section covers best practices for using the improved interface in Fireworks CS4 so you can save time and increase productivity while you output files.

This section describes the process for saving and exporting files from Fireworks CS4.

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Adobe Fireworks CS4 offers increased integration with the other tools in Adobe Creative Suite 4. It's never been easier to share files between Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Fireworks. The new features allow you to choose exactly how the graphics from other programs will be brought into Fireworks. The updated Open and Import options save you time because it is no longer necessary to prep graphic files before incorporating them into Fireworks. CS4 offers a seamless experience to share images among the different image editing tools.

There are several ways you can bring bitmap graphics into Fireworks CS4. This section describes the process of opening, importing, copying, and dragging images into your Fireworks document.

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In this tutorial we will add a reflection to the text as if the text was sitting on a mirror-like surface.

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Using the solid shadow feature of Fireworks 8, it is quite easy to create text that looks three-dimensional. Looks even better with a drop shadow.

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Learn how to fir a square image into a rounded rectangle with the help of the program Fireworks.

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In Fireworks, the GIF format and the PNG format will support transparency. We will try it with the GIF format first.

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