Make rotated text animation with fireworks 4.0

Rotating fireworks and Dreamweaver, flash together collectively known as the Web page production of the Three Musketeers, but if we do not learn to use it well, it is the same as the sword without scabbard, it is difficult to see the light. The so-called everything by accumulation, only learn more practice to let the swordsman really play the power. Today, let's take a look at how to make use of fireworks 4.0 to create a small animation of the rotated text, hoping to help you.

1, the establishment of new documents:

Start Fireworks 4.0, press CTRL + N to create a new workspace, set the workspace width (width) to 400, height (height) to 300, color black, and rest with default values.

2, Input text graphics:

First click on the Text tool (that is, "A"), set the parameters as follows: The font is "Chinese Xingkai", the size is "20", The Color is "red (#FF0000)", and the rest is not to be regulated. Then enter text in the text bar and click the OK button. Using the arrow tool to select and move the text to a slightly upper position in the workspace, next select the Shadowandglow→glow (Glow) option in the Windows→effect panel, setting specific parameters as follows: Width is 2, softness is 1, color is yellow (#FFFF00), The transparency is 100%. This time the text effect is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

3, the production of text graphics distribution path:

First deselect the text graphic, and then click the Oval tool (not found?). Press the rectangle to select the tool two seconds to see if it will appear! ), select None in the stroke and fill panels. Hold down the SHIFT key and draw a standard circle in the canvas. Press CTRL + A, or click the arrow to select the tool, hold down the Shift key and click on the text graphic and circle to select all of them, click the Text→attachtopath option, or press the shortcut key ctrl+shift+y. Do you see the text graph obediently distributed along the path? Haha, first do not complacent too early, the road long its repair far XI ... If you see the text graphic does not distribute evenly, then use the left mouse button to double-click the text graphics, in the Pop-up Text Parameters dialog box to modify the value of the AV until the text graphic along the path evenly distributed to your satisfactory status.

4. Start making animation:

Select the graphic, click Insert→converttosymbol ... (Convert to symbol) option or press F8 Key, in its dialog box, name the symbol graphic "TEXT" and select the "Graphic" (pattern) option, click the OK button, and the graphic is converted to a graphical symbol, surrounded by a dotted box with a small arrow in the lower-left corner.

5, clone other legend:

Click the Edit→clone option or press Ctrl+shift+d to clone a legend (if the legend of the workspace is selected), and then click the Scale Transform tool to see eight small squares around the legend, drag the mouse, Rotate the cloned legend clockwise to a certain angle (Figure 2). Use the same method to clone the current legend again and rotate an angle again. Perform this operation three consecutive times (or more times).

Figure 2

6. Create Animation:

Press the CTRL + a key to select all graphics, click Modify→symbol→tweeninstances ... option, enter the step (Steps) as 3 in the pop-up dialog box, click to select the Distributetoframes option, and then click the OK button. When we open the frame panel, we can see that fireworks has automatically added a lot of frames, so far, our rotation animation has finished half.

7, add decorative graphics:

Click Frame 1th in the frame panel (Frames), and click the blank space of the canvas to cancel the selection of all the shapes. Click the Oval tool to set the brush color to colorless (None) and the paint barrel color to red. In the Stroke panel, select the Fill method to none. Select Cone in the Fill panel and click the Edit button to adjust the gradient to a red, yellow gradient, and hold down the SHIFT key to draw a circle in the text on the canvas and center it (the way to center the circle: Press CTRL + A to select all the shapes, Then select the alignment on the top toolbar to center horizontally and vertically. To further decorate the circle, select the Shadowandglow→glow option in the Windows→effect panel, set the specific luminescence parameters as follows: Width is 6, softness is 6, the following offset is 6, the color is yellow (#FFFF00), transparency is 100%. If the final fill does not satisfy you, you can also click the Paint Bucket tool, you can see the circle above a small dot and a small square, try to drag any one of them, there will be different fill effects.

8, copy the circle and its effect to other frames:

In the 1th frame, select the Circle (note that you must not select the surrounding text graphics), click the right arrow button in the upper-right corner of the frame panel (Frames), select the "Copytoframes ..." option in the pop-up menu, click the "Range" option in the pop-up dialog box, and enter "2" to in the box below. "13" (the author of this animation has a total of 13 frames, you can set the maximum number of frames for your animation), click the OK button. At this point the circle is copied to frame 2nd ~ 13th. You can click each frame to observe the rotation of the text graphics and the state of the circle, if there are unsatisfactory one by one changes, for example, in a frame of text graphics or circular color, luminous effect, etc., then the animation will be more glorious. The specific settings you can try slowly.

9, output Animation:

Click File→exportpreview ... option or press the CTRL+SHIFT+X key, the Export File Preview window pops up (Figure 3).

Figure 3

Select Animatedgif in the Format drop-down menu in the Pop-up Export Preview window option options. Click the Animation tab and click the lower left loop button to let the animation play Forever (Forever). You can then click the Play button in the window to see the effect, and if one of the frames is not satisfactory, you can also click the Cancel button to return to the canvas for modification. After all OK, you can click the "Export ..." button, select the output path and specify the file name, save!

Well, it's OK to get the job done here. Finally, I wish you all the fun and fun, we'll see you next time!

As a web-maker one of the Three Musketeers, fireworks in our usual applications Cosco has no Dreamweaver and flash usage frequency high, perhaps because it has too many competitors in the graphic design field. The actual fireworks still has its unique superiority, hoped that the friend after read this article to be able to obtain some inspiration, is a kind of the role which the stimulation.