Adding Texture To Strokes And Fills - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

Adding texture to strokes and fills

You can add three-dimensional effects to both strokes and fills by adding texture. Fireworks
provides several textures, or you can use external textures.
Adding texture to a stroke
Textures modify the brightness of the stroke, but not the hue, and give strokes a less mechanical,
more organic look, as if you were applying paint to a textured surface. Textures are more effective
when used with wide strokes. You can add a texture to any stroke. Fireworks ships with several
textures to choose from, such as Chiffon, Oilslick, and Sandpaper.
Use the Stroke options in the Property inspector or the Stroke Options pop-up window to add a texture
to a brush stroke.
To add texture to the stroke of a selected object:
Do one of the following to open the Stroke Texture pop-up menu:
1
Click the Stroke Texture pop-up menu in the Property inspector.
Click the Stroke Color box in the Tools panel, click Stroke Options, and click the Texture
pop-up menu.
Do one of the following:
2
Choose a texture from the pop-up menu.
Choose Other from the pop-up menu and navigate to a texture file to use an
external texture.
Note: You can apply textures from files with these formats: PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, and
PICT (Macintosh only).
Enter a percentage from 0 to 100 to control the depth of the texture.
3
Increasing the percentage increases the texture intensity.
116 Chapter 5: Applying Color, Strokes, and Fills