Using Fireworks to Create Collages

 

 

Objects to Fade In and Fade Out

 

  1. Go to File-New, create a new document
  2. Import a picture
  3. Click the picture and go to Edit-Clone
  4. Window-Layer, then set the opacity to 0
  5. Modify-Arrange-Send to Back
  6. Edit-Clone
  7. Modify-Arrange-Send to Front
  8. Window-Layer, press Shift Key and click all three pictures at the same time.
  9. Modify-Symbol-Tween Instances, set the “steps” to 10 and check the box of “Distribute to Frames”

 

 

 

3 Dimensional Words

 

  1. File-New
  2. Window-Tools, select text tool, “A” and create a text
  3. Convert the text to symbol by p F8 and choose “Graphic”
  4. Click the text, Edit-Clone
  5. Drag one of the texts down.  Transform-Scale, make the text smaller.
  6. Click the downward text, Window-Object, select “transform as paths”
  7. Click the downward text, Window-Layer, set the opacity to 20
  8. P Shift Key, and click two texts on the same. 
  9. Modify-Symbol-Tween Instances, set the “Steps” to 10, uncheck the “Distribute to Frames”

 

Slow Motion Objects

  1. File-New
  2. Window-Tools, select text tool, “A” and create a text
  3. Convert the text to symbol by p F8 and choose “Animation”
  4. In the animation property, set the “Frame” to 10 and “Opacity” to 0 to 100
  5. Drag the red dot of the animated text down.
  6. In the 1st frame, click the text and click Edit-Copy as a Vector
  7. Window-Frame, click the 2nd frame.  Paste the text you have copied.
  8. Click on the text you pasted and Modify-Animate, set the “Opacity” to 0 to 80
  9. Go to the 3rd frame and Edit-Paste
  10. Click on the text you pasted and Modify-Animate, set the "Opacity” to 0 to 60
  11. Go to the 4th frame and Edit-Paste
  12. Click on the text you pasted and Modify-Animate, set the “Opacity” to 0 to 40
  13. Go to the 5th frame and Edit-Paste
  14. Click on the text you pasted and Modify-Animate, set the “Opacity” to 0 to 20