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Adding new Auto Shapes to Fireworks
You can add new Auto Shapes to Fireworks using the Fireworks Exchange website. Some new
Auto Shapes will appear in the Shapes tab in the Assets panel, and others will appear in the Tools
menu, grouped with the other Auto Shapes.
You can also add new Auto Shapes to Fireworks by writing the JavaScript code for the Auto
Shapes yourself. For more information, see Extending Fireworks.
To add new Auto Shapes to Fireworks:
Choose Window > Auto Shapes to display the Shapes tab, if it is not already visible.
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Choose Get More Auto Shapes from the Auto Shapes panel Options menu.
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Fireworks connects to the web and navigates to the Fireworks Exchange website.
Follow the onscreen instructions to select new Auto Shapes and add them to Fireworks.
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Drawing freeform paths
You can draw freeform vector paths with the Vector Path tool, much as you draw using a felt-tip
marker or crayon. The Vector Path tool is located in the Pen tool pop-up menu.
You can change the stroke and fill attributes of paths drawn with the Vector Path tool.
See Chapter 5, "Applying Color, Strokes, and Fills," on page
Using the Vector Path tool
The Vector Path tool has a wide variety of brush stroke categories, including Air Brush,
Calligraphy, Charcoal, Crayon, and Unnatural. Each category typically has a choice of strokes,
such as Light Marker and Dark Marker, Splattered Oil, Bamboo, Ribbon, Confetti, 3D,
Toothpaste, and Viscous Alien Paint.
Although the strokes may look like paint or ink, each has the points and paths of a vector object.
That means that you can change the shape of the stroke using any of several vector-editing
techniques. After you reshape the path, the stroke is redrawn.
A painting edited by moving vector points
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