Forged gold texture with Fireworks MX

Since ancient times, gold has been attracting people's sight with its bright and eye-catching colors, and it has been widely used in the graphic works of traditional media.
But have you ever wanted to achieve the effect of gold on the web?
Fireworks, one of the Three Musketeers, is the graphic editing software of Macromedia Company's main network image processing.
The powerful features of its auxiliary web design are well known, but her ability to handle images is not negligible.
Now use fireworks to achieve the effect of gold texture.
In this example, the pentagram is used as an example. Learn the way fireworks draw polygons by the way.
First, open the Fireworksmx, create a new canvas with a long width of 200x200 pixels and a white background.
to tools (tool) surface, click the small arrow in the lower right corner of the rectangle Tool (rectangular tool) and pull up polygon Tool (polygon tool).
The outer frame color setting is not, fills the color casually, because afterward will make the change. Come to properties (properties) surface version, set on the right: Shape/star (Shape/Star), SIDES/5 (Edge/5), angle/38 (angle/38 degrees), or directly check automatic (automatically set).
Then on the canvas, draw a pentagram.
The first five-pointed stars: The first five-pointed stars using conical (Cone) fill color, from the property bar in the fill surface version can be seen using a variety of colors to reflect the refraction of a variety of metal rays. Because the gold effect is done, the color is filled with yellow, orange and brown as the keynote. In this case, the fill sequence is:
#BF7300, #FFFF99, #CC6600, #FFAE00, #FFFF00,
#FFCC00, #FFFF66, #9F8000, #CC9900, #CCCC00,
#FFFF33, #FFFFFF, #FFCC66, #FF9900, #C67700,
#9D4F00, #FFFF66, #C47500, #FFFF00, #957000.

By this, the feeling of gold has been leaps. But it looks like the golden wrapper, and it's almost the weight of gold. So try one more.
Second Pentagram: Draw the second pentagram as it is. This time uses the folding (folds) fills the color, this example fills in order is: #FFC820, #FFCCC66, #FFCC00, #FF9900, #FFCC99, #FFFF00.
Select the pentagram, you will see the fill lever. Move the color lever to the pentagram, adjust the lever to approximate level, but some micro creases.
In order to embody the three-dimensional sense of the pentagram, and then to the property bar to the right add effect (effects:+) First use the internal bevel (Inner bevel) effects, settings: Bevel Edge Shape/flat (bevel shape/flat), WIDTH/33 (width/33), contrast/60% (contrast/60%), SOFTNESS/2 (Soft/2), angle/158 (angle/158 degrees), button preset/raised (buttons preset/raised).
Then use the projection (drop Shadow) effect, set: DISTANCE/7 (distance/7), opacity/65% (opacity/65%), #000000 (projection color/black), SOFTNESS/4 (Soft/4), angle/315 (Angle/ 315 degrees),
A golden three-dimensional pentagram is finished, it is very textured?

Then how to realize the gold stars with liquid metal feeling? Let's draw a pentagram again.
The third five-pointed stars: According to the original picture of the third five-pointed stars, fill the color casually good, because after the effect of the settings have no effect.
This time, thanks to the famous plug-in filter Eye Candy 4000, which supports Fireworks.
Add the effect from the right of the property bar (effects:+), the call is Chrome (chrome) filter, specific settings see the following figure Chrome-alloy filter effect surface version. The pentagram has a metallic texture.

And then to experience the three gold-textured five-pointed pentagram effect:

In fact, the first two five-pointed stars Gold main test fill technique. And the third implementation is easy, but there is a flaw, that is, if you want to fine-tune the effect, the preview effect will be biased with the actual effect, this may be a drawback.
Source files are available here: