In this impromptu tutorial, I cover how I use elliptical gradients and ellipse shapes to give some very unique shadowing.
In typical fashion, I’d more than love some comments critiquing the tutorial, letting me know if it helped you or any other general ramblings. Extra points added if you comment a Star Wars rap, donate a buck towards a Vimeo plus account, or like with the new Facebook like button below.
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Can’t see the tutorial either.
Works for me.
Thanks, Rogie!
This is the same technique I use – so much better looking than a gaussian blur or something messy with masks…etc.
*high five*
Boom. High five right back ‘atcha Dustin!
What computer did you just get? Something i7?
Great screencast, Rogie. I really like using Blurred Ellipses for shadows instead of “actual shadows” – I recently started doing that as well. But its cool to see how other people work.
Thanks for sharing.
Looking forward to the “masks” screencast. :)
Awesome, and thanks!
Really enjoyed that – will be putting some of those techniques into practice on my portfolio redesign!
BTW, don’t like ya ring tone!
Just listing to the sweet dulcitone of your voice makes this tutorial worth listening to.
You make me want to cheat on Photoshop with Fireworks. A vector fling, of sorts.
Hey Rogie, nice screencast :-)! Which version of Fw are you running?
What about a screencast about masks in Fireworks? And i like to watch your tutorials in zoom, so you may think about recording in a higher solution (if this is possible wiht Vimeo).
Thanks :-)
+3 for “…rockin the hizzzy.”
Heh, I’ve been using this and similar tequniues since I became a fireworks convert when it was still owned by Macromedia. Really great stuff, glad too see that you’re sharing the knowladge.
Out of curiosity, I noticed that you’re not using keyboard shortcuts to activate controls in the tool bar, is this your M.O., or just a behavior quirk for this tutorial? =p
@all Until I get Vimeo Plus, either watch the screencast in fullscreen or click the HD on button on the right side in the video to goto Vimeo’s site and watch it in fullscreen HD.
@Matthias I’m currently using Fireworks CS4.
I would love to do a tutorial on masks as I use them quite extensively — I’ll be pondering how to make tutorials better for other folks. It seems that capturing the video at lower resolutions seems to be a legit way to do that. Also, HD doesn’t hurt either.
Ah, didn’t saw the HD button :-). With HD turned on its much better! Thanks for the hint.
Great stuff. Keep them coming!
Hey man, Thanks for this tutorial. It’s easy to watch and coming from a VERY long time Photoshop user these types of tuts are helping me learn Fireworks.
Great work! I’d love to see a tut on how you did that inverse bowing shadow under the sticky note.
My current way is very poor, I’m sure.. which involves rasterizing and erasing with an eraser. Always wanted to find a way to do that in a non-destructive fashion.