Textual Musings – Fireworks Text Techniques: Part 2 ![[Registration never required for free content]](/images/free.gif)
By: Alex Dunn on Friday, May 22, 2009
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There is so much you can do when is comes to dealing with text in Fireworks. You can bend, twist, expand, fade, colour, add gradients, and turn in to bitmaps or vectors, to name but a few. You may think you have seen everything possible (and probably have), but there's always more to discover, test and try out.
In the first tutorial we created rounded and spooky text from our standard font type using masking and the levels filter. Now we can use that as a basis to create some devilish text and also use many more techniques utilizing both vector and bitmap tools.
Note: This tutorial requires Fireworks 8 or newer
Alex Dunn is a freelance web enthusiast from Bristol, England. He has a BSc(Hons) Degree in Information Technology and a Diploma in Computing and Multimedia Studies. He loves being creative and being involved with all aspects of web design since he became 'hooked' back in the late nineties.
The Textual Musings Series:
Textual Musings – Fireworks Text Techniques: Part 1
Textual Musings – Fireworks Text Techniques: Part 2
