animated blog header!

Now that you are experts at fireworks, show off your skills by creating a custom blog header.  Set up your document with a 600 pixel width by 200 pixel height.

Now get creative!  Make sure it matches the color scheme of your blog template.  If you have reds and blues, don't use hot pink, etc.

You are strongly encouraged to use clipart, pictures of yourself, words, etc. 

Just remember that everything you want to stay the same in the video (ie the background) goes on one layer and gets share to the states. The remaining objects (the moving ones) go on a different layer and those are the ones you animate state by state by copying AFTER you have made changes on the layer.

Some sample ones I've seen before:

A ski slope that stays the same, but a skier skis across the screen.
A picture of a girls head on a stick figure body doing cartwheels across the screen.
A roller coaster
shooting stars behind someones name
Balloons floating to the top of the header then popping

These are just ideas.  I strongly encourage you to get creative!

We will be working on these headers Tuesday and Thursday in class.  Wednesday we will have a guest speaker.

Good luck and have fun you creative fireworks geniuses!

Create Three more Weather Scenes by Monday 10/25

Great job in class today! On Thursday and Friday, your job is to create three more "action" weather scenes. At the bottom are some sample weather scenes you could create using fireworks. Remember these important steps:

1. Set the canvas size to 300 by 200 and the canvas color to your preferred background color
2. Create your shape you want to stay the same on all scenes and on that layer right click and share to states (it would probably be easier to add your text to this layer since we want it to appear in each state)
3. Create/duplicate a layer and draw the shapes that will change
4. Go to your States tab and click on the options button (top right)
5. Add new states (at least 3)
6. Click on state 1 and then on your layers tab
7. Click on the layer that has your "changing shapes" (now they should all be selected)
8. Copy these selections by pressing control c
9. Click on the States tab and select state 2 and then paste (repeat for state 3 and 4)
10. Now go back to state 2 and click on the layers tab
11. Click on the "changing shapes" layer and using the subselection tool (the white arrow) make the changes to your shapes.
12. Repeat this process in states 3 and 4
13. Make sure in your optimize menu (very top right screen) that the top drop down says Animated GIF
14. Go to File>Export and save as the weather scene type you created
15. Post to your blog when finished with all four!

Cartooning

A little more practice with using the masking and cutting tools in fireworks....

In order to prove your skills in masking and cutting, you have an assignment to complete. The requirements are as follows:
1. Take a photo of an object in the school. For example, a garbage can, the stairs, the soda machine, the hotspot.
2. Import that photo into Fireworks or Photoshop (document size is 6 inches wide by 4 inches tall)
3. Go to the internet and find a photo of a cartoon.
4. Use your masking and cutting tools to put the cartoon character in the photo.
5. use the text tools to put a headline on the photo.

For the next photo:
1. Take a photo of a person.
2. Find a photo of a cartoon character and use your masking and cutting tools to pose them with a cartoon character.

When you have finished these two assignments, post the JPEG to your blog. You have until the end of Class on Tuesday to complete your assignment.

Introduction to Fireworks

minima blog template code

http://sites.google.com/site/simblogg/MinimalistMinima.xml?attredirects=0

save to your C: drive then upload to your blog

this is the website you need to go to

http://www.ourblogtemplates.com/2007/06/generic-blogger-template.html