Adobe 65011817 - Fireworks CS4 - Mac Using Manual page 113

USING FIREWORKS CS4
Applying color, strokes, and fills
View the color value of the active stroke or fill color
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Do one of the following:
• Select Window > Color Mixer for RGB or other color system values.
• Click a color box to open the color pop-up window and view the hexadecimal value at the top of the window.
• Place the pointer over a color box and read the tool tip (Windows only).
Note: By default, the color's RGB values appear in the Info panel and the Color Mixer. Its hexadecimal value
appears in the color pop-up window.
Display color information for a different color model
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Select another color model from the Info panel Options menu or the Color Mixer Options menu.
Dither to simulate web-safe colors and transparency
When using a color that is not websafe, apply a web dither fill. Doing so enables you to approximate a websafe color
that doesn't shift or dither when exported with a websafe palette.
To create the appearance of transparency, apply the Transparent dithering fill option. In transparent objects, the web
page background shows through every other pixel of the transparent web dither fill.
Note: Web dithering can increase the size of the file.
Two websafe colors create a web dither fill.
Apply a web dither fill
Select an object containing a non-websafe color.
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Select Web Dither from the Fill Options pop-up menu in the Property inspector.
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3 In the Property inspector, click the Fill Color box to display the Fill Options pop-up window.
The object's non-websafe color appears in the Source color box. The two websafe dither colors appear in the color
boxes to the right. The web dither appears on the object and becomes the active fill color.
Note: Setting the edge of a web dither fill to Anti-Alias or Feather results in colors that are not websafe.
Click outside the pop-up window to close it.
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Apply a transparent dither fill
Select an object to which you want to apply a transparent fill.
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2 Select Web Dither from the Fill Options pop-up menu in the Property inspector.
In the Property inspector, click the Fill Color box to display the Fill Options pop-up window.
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Select Transparent.
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The object on the canvas becomes semi-opaque or translucent.
Click outside the pop-up window to close it.
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