FIREWORKS CURRICULUM
FLOATING PANELS
Fireworks panels float above the document. Place them anywhere on your screen. The Layers and
F r a m e s and the Brushes and Fills panels are tabbed. The other two panels are the Tool Options a n d
Color Mixer panels. Close any of these panels using the standard close box. Open or close them by
choosing the appropriate command from the Window menu.
THE LAYERS AND FRAMES PANEL
Layers and Frames controls are located on one panel with different tabs.
Layers
1 . Choose Window > Layers to open the
Layers and Frames panel (Figure 1-9).
2 . If it is already open, click the Layers tab
to bring it to the front.
3 . Click the background layer name to
select the background layer.
The active layer is highlighted. The
background layer is always at the bottom
of the stacking order.
4 . Click the Text layer name to activate the
Text layer.
5 . Using the Pointer tool, click on the line of
text on the image.
The blue square indicates in which layer the selected
object resides. The butterfly image and the vector
images are on the foreground layer. To move a
selected object to a different layer, drag the blue
square icon up or down the list.
6 . Click the area in the second column to the left of a
layer name to lock that layer.
A padlock indicates that a layer is locked (Figure 1-10).
Objects on a locked layer are not editable until the
layer is unlocked.
7 . Click the area in the first column to the left of a text
layer name to hide that layer (Figure 1-11).
The show/hide icon disappears as well as the text
within the document. Hiding a layer hides all objects on
that layer, but does not remove them from the
document. Showing a layer shows all objects on that
layer. A hidden layer cannot be an active layer.
8 . Click the square in the first column to the left of the
layer name to show that layer.
Only objects on visible, unlocked layers are editable.
Many of the actions associated with layers—add,
duplicate, rename, remove, hide or show, and lock or
unlock layers—are located in the Options pop-up.
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Figure 1-9
Layers divide a
Fireworks document
into discrete planes,
as though the
graphic components
were drawn on
separate tracing
paper overlays.
Each object in a
graphic resides on a
layer. You can
create all layers
before you draw or
add them as needed.
Figure 1-10
Figure 1-11
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