A Great Tutorial (but not as good as the one for DREAMWEAVER)

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	• Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004: Training from the Source Patti Schulze Macromedia Press, 2003 - 312 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great beginners book

Step-by-step, easy to follow instructios, with clear pictures and diagrams to indicate where to find the tools they want you to use. The projects in this book teach the basics in ways that users will be able to put to immediate use for their own projects. I found it especially useful since I have no training at all with any graphics programs, this book really helped me understand what tools were available and how to use them in effective ways.

I cannot stress enough, however, that this is a beginner's book. If you have experience with Fireworks (or probably any other similar program) this may not be the book for you.

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Pretty good for beginners

This book is really great if your an absolute beginner. The instructions are easy and the tutorials with the CD make the book a great way to learn fast and easy. Maybe this is not the book you want if you really want to go into Fireworks more. I felt like I needed to know more stuff than the book taught me. There's a lot you can do with Fireworks, but the book doesn't take you all the way. It's a really great way to get from absolute beginner to advanced intermediate.

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Good Reference Book

I have been through this book and its companion book for Freehand MX and have the same comment for this one that I had for the Freehand MX version. Almost Great! Thorough enough to be used as a reference but the actual examples need some editing. There was a lack of consistency to simple things like "select both items" being sometimes written and sometimes left to the reader to figure out. Overall, a good book for a beginner who will refer to it often for a reference.

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A value for money purchase

This book starts from the very basics in a clear and well set out format making it one of the value for money books on my shelf.

A Great Tutorial (but not as good as the one for DREAMWEAVER)

I was blown away by the "Training from the Source" tutorial for DREAMWEAVER. That is why I had to have this one for FIREWORKS. I have to admit to being a little disappointed but that is mostly do to the previous book setting the mark so high. This is still a great tutorial to learn the program, especially for someone like me who knows nothing about this subject. This book is designed as an intro, not an advanced course.

A few of the qualities that this series seem to share are clear instructions, easy to read print, illustrations and screen shots that are big enough to be useful and an approach that continues to build on what has been done before. This is especially true with the examples on the enclosed CD.

What disappoints me is that this book is primarily designed from the approach of using FIREWORKS as a stand alone program. There is material that covers the integration with DREAMWEAVER but this material is neither as copious nor as clear as I would have liked. Still, I know a lot more today than I did 2 days ago.

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Faster, more efficient, and with a raft of new features that encourage creativity and collaboration, Fireworks MX 2004 represents an essential upgrade to Macromedia¿s popular Web graphics program: If you don¿t already know Fireworks, now would be a good time to learn it, and if you do already know it, now would be a good time to relearn it¿in the form of this latest (and greatest) upgrade! Either way, this Macromedia-authorized guide has the answers. Through 11 hands-on, project-based lessons and 16 to 20 hours of instruction, you¿ll tackle everything from editing bitmaps and creating interactive buttons to optimizing and exporting pages as HTML files. On the companion CD, you¿ll find a demo version of Fireworks MX 2004 as well as all the media files you need to complete the book¿s sophisticated, professional-level projects. You¿ll even find completed files that you can use to compare with your own results. It¿s time to start creating your own fireworks with Fireworks MX 2004!

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