MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 8, Use Manual

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82 Chapter 4: Working with Bitmaps
Accessing common photo editing tools
all in one place
To make it easy for you get started editing photos as quickly as possible, Fireworks has
assembled the most commonly used tools for photo editing all in one place. The Image
Editing panel contains the following tools:
Red-eye Removal, Crop, Rotate, Blur, Sharpen,
Dodge, and Burn.
The Image Editing panel also contains:
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Transform Tools: Scale, Skew, Distort, Free Rotate
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Transform Commands: Numeric Transform, Rotate options, Flip Horizontal, Flip
Vertical, Remove Transformations
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Adjust Color: Auto Levels, Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Invert, Levels,
Convert to Grayscale, Convert to Sepia Tone
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Filters: Blur, Blur More, Sharpen, Sharpen More, Unsharp Mask, Add Noise, Convert to
Alpha, Find Edges
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View Options: Show/Hide Rulers, Show/Hide Grid, Snap/Don’t Snap to Grid, Edit Grid,
Show/Hide Guides, Snap/Don’t Snap to Guides, Lock/Unlock Guides, Edit Guides
The tools contained in the Image Editing panel are the same tools you’ll find in other places
in Fireworks (such as in the toolbox and on the Modify > Transform menu). The Image
Editing panel, which you can open by selecting Window > Image Editing, simply presents
some of the most commonly used tools all in one panel for your convenience.
For detailed information on how to use these tools and options, please see “Retouching
bitmaps” on page 86 , “Adjusting bitmap color and tone” on page 93 , “Blurring and
sharpening bitmaps” on page 104 , and “Adding noise to an image” on page 109 .