Creating nice drop shadows with Fireworks CS4

Posted: December 2nd, 2008 | Author: jonathan | Filed under: design, howto, rambling |

Picture 1.png Ever wanted to make some decent-looking drop shadows, but spent ages faffing with airbrushes and filters?

My first screencast

Okay, it’s not my first screencast, but it’s the first that’s been created simply as a how-to. Most of my screencasts have been in direct response to client questions on “how do I do x in my CMS again?”. Much faster than typing an email, typically.

I use ScreenFlow for capture, and this was all done in one take while waiting for some updates to compile on a Gentoo server.

Get to the point!

I ramble a lot. I need to learn to edit this stuff, but hey, you don’t learn if you don’t post.

Feedback?

Creating nice drop shadows with Fireworks CS4 from Jonathan Barrett on Vimeo.

Oh, and it looks much better in HD.

2 Comments on “Creating nice drop shadows with Fireworks CS4”

  1. #1 jed said at 2:55 pm on February 12th, 2009:

    great! very good tips.

  2. #2 Stan Angeloff said at 12:16 pm on February 25th, 2009:

    I like it a lot. In fact, I am installing a trail of Fireworks to give it a go.

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