Make animation with fireworks

There are a number of ways to make web animations, such as using Java or DHTML or Flash, and fireworks. And fireworks offers three ways to make animations: hand-drawn, using symbols (symbol), image method.

Here we make a simple "month out" animation by hand-drawing and image method.

1. Create a new blank document window:

When you run fireworks 4, select the menu "file→new" command, the new document window appears, set some parameters, press OK, and a new blank document window (Untitled-1) appears in the Fireworks program window.

2, Import Image:

Select Menu "File→inport ..." command, an import window appears, when you select an image file, press Open, the pointer changes to a polyline shape, and the selected image is clicked in the upper-left corner of the blank document window, and the selection is imported into a blank document window. Adjusts the position of the image or edits the size of the canvas. This example imports a "Night view without the moon" (Fig. 1).

Figure 1

3, create animation frame number:

If the Fireworks 4 program window does not appear in the frame panel (Frames), you can press the SHIFT+F2 key at the same time, the frame panel appears. There is a Frame1 in the frame panel, indicating that a frame already exists, and the image imported in step 2nd is in this frame. The mouse clicks the triangle icon in the upper right corner of the frame panel, the Frame Panel menu appears, select "Add Frames ...", and the Add frame window (adding Frames) is entered in the Add window's "number" entry, in this case, enter the frame number 4, and select "After Current frame option, press OK, and 5 frames (frame 1~frame5) appear in the frame panel. If you select Frame 2nd to 5th with a mouse click, no image is displayed in the document window, and the mouse selects frame 1th to display the imported image in the document window.

4. Shared layers:

With the mouse click to select the 1th frame, and then press F2 key, appear layer Panel (Layers), with the mouse to select "Layer1", and then click on the graph layer of the upper-right corner of the triangle icon, appear Layers Panel menu, select "Share this Layer" command, determine, To convert the first layer of frame 1th (Layer1) to a layer that is shared by 4 other frames, you can choose another 4 frames preview.

Figure 2

5. Draw the Animation:

Select the 1th frame of the layers panel, the mouse click on the lower right corner of the layers Panel open icon, create a 1th frame second layer (LAYER2). In the Layer 2 layer, draw a moon with the drawing Circle tool in the toolbox, reproduce the 4-month light, release the 5 moons along the rising direction, and edit the attributes such as the sun shape color (Figure 2). Use the mouse at the same time (press SHIFT) This 5-month light, and then select the frame panel, the 5 moons distributed to 5 frames.

6, adjust the frame delay time:

In the frame panel, double-click the number on the right side of each frame, and a window appears, entering the frame playback delay time. Select frames from frame 1 to Frame5 sequence, browse the direction of the moon's rise, and, if incorrect, use the mouse to drag and drop frames to adjust the order of the frames.

7. Browsing Effect:

There is a row of animation control buttons in the lower left corner of the Fireworks 4 program window, and the control button is used to navigate the animation effect. If you are not satisfied, edit and modify the parameters until satisfied.

8. Output of Works

Select the menu "File→export Preview ..." command, the Export Preview dialog box (exports Preview), animation optimization and settings, press the "Export ..." button, export animation works.

Please give yourself a try, in the process of building animation, add your ideas, you will find many wonderful visual effects.