Record actions in fireworks - Fireworks tutorial

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In this tutorial I will show you how to create a sunset scrapbook photo frame in Fireworks CS3. You will need to have Fireworks CS3 to use this tutorial.

1) Create a circle size 330px x 330px; align: 41x, 40y.
Set no stroke, Fill #000000, feather 4
2) Create another circle size 329px x 329px; align: 41x, 40y.
Set no stroke, Fill #633000, set fiber texture 13%, and set these effects in this order.
-Inner Shadow, color #000000, size 91, 65% opacity, 49 softness, 257 angle.
-Inner Shadow, color #000000, size 91, 37% opacity, 91 softness, 113 angle.
-Blur
-Inner Shadow, color #000000, size 35, 25% opacity, 20 softness, 90 angle.

-Note both these circles need to be placed directly over eachother. The brown circle on top.

3) Create new circle 102px x 102px; align: 155x, 154y. Feather 21, Fill #000000, no stroke.

4) Create new circle 58px x 58px; align: 154x, 129y. No stroke, Fill #E7CFC6.
-Apply Inner Shadow- Size 16, Color #000000, 65% opacity, 20 softness, 301 angle.

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The overall order should be large black circle on very bottom, large brown circle above that, small black circle above that, and small tanish circle above that.

From there you can easily change the fill of the large brown circle to any color eye, and adjust the texture to better suit your needs.

For those of you who wish to have chocolate text on your banner! This effect is quite simple to learn. You can also get this effect using Fireworks MX 2004, but with a slight variation in the options selected.

This is a step by step tutorial that teaches you to create a flash preloader application using Flash MX 2004 and Actionscripts.

Give your photos a torn paper effect around the edges