Figure 4-2. Fireworks document settings
A size of 800 by 600 pixels is a standard starting point. It provides a fair amount of room for your elements
while still fitting on the lower display resolutions of laptops. It is often easy to forget that not
everyone will see your work on a screen resolution as large as the one in your studio.
Importing and manipulating images in Fireworks
In this chapter, you??™ll be creating a layout for a project that has content similar to the personal page
you created in Chapter 3. That is, it will have three small images, three panels with text, and a larger
text area. But let??™s start by adding a new feature: a background image. The key to selecting a background
image is to get an image that provides space for the content elements. This often comes in the
form of an area that has a consistent color. The image that we??™ve selected for this project is of a temple
in Japan??”the image fades out to white along the right side. Our plan is to have it fade into the
white background color and give us space for our content.
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3. Import the image called background.jpg into Fireworks using the File ?¤ Import command, as
shown in Figure 4-3.
Figure 4-3. Choose Import from the
File menu.
Fireworks does not bring the image in with its original size; instead, it has you
draw a rectangle for the image in the stage while maintaining its aspect ratio. You
want to bring the image in so that it fills most of the height of your page but still
provides you with a good deal of white along the right side.
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