Adobe® Fireworks® CS6 Classroom in a Book®: The official training workbook from Adobe Systems

6. Masking

Lesson overview

Masking, combined with strokes, live filters, and gradient fills, is a key technique for creating and editing imagery without permanently affecting images. Fireworks lets you work with both bitmap and vector masks easily and seamlessly. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create a bitmap mask from a selection

• Edit a bitmap mask using the Brush tool

• Create a vector mask from a vector shape

• Edit the vector mask and change its properties using the Properties panel

• Use the Auto Vector Mask command

This lesson takes approximately 90 minutes to complete. Copy the Lesson06 folder into the Lessons ...