lynda.com, which produces video workshops aimed at creative professionals and delivers them online or on CD- or DVD-ROM, announced recently that a new session, “Learning Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004,” is now available. It comes on CD-ROM for US$99.95.
Abigail Rudner hosts this seven-hour workshop, taking novice and intermediate Fireworks users through the basics of working with the application. She covers creating vector and bitmap images, working with pixels, vector and bitmap masks as well as masking with text, image maps, animation, rollovers, and more. Rudner also discusses integration with Dreamweaver.
You can visit the “Learning Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004” Web page to view a few free clips and learn more about it. Lynda.com also offers a subscription service that allows you to view the workshop, as well as the over 4,100 other movie-based tutorials in their catalog, online. Rates are $25 per month or $250 per year for unrestricted access to the Lynda.com library, or $375 per year for full access plus copies of all the exercise files.