Linda' photomontage

[maria]

I posted this under project vii because the question/answer dept sent me
there. Upon reflection I should be posting my question here. As an aside,
I found Linda R's photomontage beyond breathtaking and am having a mild
coronary trying to implement her tutorial using the prehistoric fw4. Hence
the following question

Hi. I wanted to do the proj vii tutorial on photomontage and realized after
some minutes hunting around for some tools that the tutorial was mx based
rather than fw4. I guess they took off the earlier tutorials. does anyone
know of another online source that would cover this? many thanks. maria

[Linda Rathgeber]

Hi Maria,

The differences are as follows:

Fireworks 4 has no built in Fade command. To do the image fades, you
have to do them all from scratch. It's very easy, though.

To fade the images in Fireworks 4 it is necessary to drag a rectangle
over the image, and then add a black/white linear gradient to the
rectangle. The black part should be where you want the image to remain
opaque. The white part of the gradient should be where you want the
image to fade out. Once you've got that set up, open the Layers panel,
then press Shift & select the thumbnails for the image and the gradient
rectangle, and choose Modify > Mask > Group as mask.

If that doesn't sort things out for you, feel free to write to me off
list and I'll walk you through the tutorial in FW 4 as best I can.


Linda Rathgeber
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[maria]

MANY THANKS! wish me luck...I'm off on a mission! :-)
"Linda Rathgeber" <lightly@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:bmphjm$7bl$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi Maria,
>
> The differences are as follows:
>
> Fireworks 4 has no built in Fade command. To do the image fades, you
> have to do them all from scratch. It's very easy, though.
>
> To fade the images in Fireworks 4 it is necessary to drag a rectangle
> over the image, and then add a black/white linear gradient to the
> rectangle. The black part should be where you want the image to remain
> opaque. The white part of the gradient should be where you want the
> image to fade out. Once you've got that set up, open the Layers panel,
> then press Shift & select the thumbnails for the image and the gradient
> rectangle, and choose Modify > Mask > Group as mask.
>
> If that doesn't sort things out for you, feel free to write to me off
> list and I'll walk you through the tutorial in FW 4 as best I can.
>
>
> Linda Rathgeber
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Design Aid: 10-Palette Pack for Fireworks & Flash
> [url]http://www.webdevbiz.com/graphics.cfm[/url]
> Playing with Fire | [url]http://www.playingwithfire.com[/url]
> Victoriana | Theme Pack 03 - Club | [url]http://www.projectseven.com[/url]
> Team MM Fireworks Volunteer | [url]www.macromedia.com/go/team[/url]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

[Linda Rathgeber]

maria wrote:

> MANY THANKS! wish me luck...I'm off on a mission! :-)

Good luck! :-)

Linda
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[PJK]

Maria sorry to bust in like this - Linda can I mail you offline?
RSVP Phil @ Max Boxxer .co.uk Thanks

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"Linda Rathgeber" <lightly@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:bmphjm$7bl$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi Maria,
>
> The differences are as follows:
>
> Fireworks 4 has no built in Fade command. To do the image fades, you
> have to do them all from scratch. It's very easy, though.
>
> To fade the images in Fireworks 4 it is necessary to drag a rectangle
> over the image, and then add a black/white linear gradient to the
> rectangle. The black part should be where you want the image to remain
> opaque. The white part of the gradient should be where you want the
> image to fade out. Once you've got that set up, open the Layers panel,
> then press Shift & select the thumbnails for the image and the gradient
> rectangle, and choose Modify > Mask > Group as mask.
>
> If that doesn't sort things out for you, feel free to write to me off
> list and I'll walk you through the tutorial in FW 4 as best I can.
>
>
> Linda Rathgeber
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Design Aid: 10-Palette Pack for Fireworks & Flash
> [url]http://www.webdevbiz.com/graphics.cfm[/url]
> Playing with Fire | [url]http://www.playingwithfire.com[/url]
> Victoriana | Theme Pack 03 - Club | [url]http://www.projectseven.com[/url]
> Team MM Fireworks Volunteer | [url]www.macromedia.com/go/team[/url]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

[PJK]

sorry it's been a long day - I meant offlist !!

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"PJK" <phil@maxboxxer.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Maria sorry to bust in like this - Linda can I mail you offline?
> RSVP Phil @ Max Boxxer .co.uk Thanks
>
> --
> Phil @ Max Boxxer (UK) [url]http://www.maxboxxer.co.uk[/url]
> telephone : +44(0)1970 832803 FAX : +44(0)1970 832087
>
> Please Note:
> Max Boxxer UK will never send email attachments without prior
> notification - Similarly if you need to send an email attachment
> please let us know, otherwise it will be automatically deleted!
>
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>
> "Linda Rathgeber" <lightly@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:bmphjm$7bl$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> > Hi Maria,
> >
> > The differences are as follows:
> >
> > Fireworks 4 has no built in Fade command. To do the image fades, you
> > have to do them all from scratch. It's very easy, though.
> >
> > To fade the images in Fireworks 4 it is necessary to drag a rectangle
> > over the image, and then add a black/white linear gradient to the
> > rectangle. The black part should be where you want the image to remain
> > opaque. The white part of the gradient should be where you want the
> > image to fade out. Once you've got that set up, open the Layers panel,
> > then press Shift & select the thumbnails for the image and the gradient
> > rectangle, and choose Modify > Mask > Group as mask.
> >
> > If that doesn't sort things out for you, feel free to write to me off
> > list and I'll walk you through the tutorial in FW 4 as best I can.
> >
> >
> > Linda Rathgeber
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Design Aid: 10-Palette Pack for Fireworks & Flash
> > [url]http://www.webdevbiz.com/graphics.cfm[/url]
> > Playing with Fire | [url]http://www.playingwithfire.com[/url]
> > Victoriana | Theme Pack 03 - Club | [url]http://www.projectseven.com[/url]
> > Team MM Fireworks Volunteer | [url]www.macromedia.com/go/team[/url]
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >

>
>

[Linda Rathgeber]

PJK wrote:

> sorry it's been a long day - I meant offlist !!

Sure. But it would have been interesting to find out how you would have
done it offline. :-P


Linda Rathgeber
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Design Aid: 10-Palette Pack for Fireworks & Flash
[url]http://www.webdevbiz.com/graphics.cfm[/url]
Playing with Fire | [url]http://www.playingwithfire.com[/url]
Victoriana | Theme Pack 03 - Club | [url]http://www.projectseven.com[/url]
Team MM Fireworks Volunteer | [url]www.macromedia.com/go/team[/url]
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[Sam Poikail]

"Linda Rathgeber" <lightly@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Sure. But it would have been interesting to find out how you would have
> done it offline. :-P

There's one in every crowd.... especially on Fridays. I know this cause I'm
usally the one ;o)

Cheers,
Sam