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Light Painting in Fireworks
Last month we had written an post announcing that we would write 4 tutorials on how to create Light Painting in Photoshop, Fireworks, Pixelmator, and GIMP. The first was the Photoshop, and you can check it out at Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect. Today we will show you how to create the effect in Fireworks.
I have to say, I took quite sometime trying to find the right combination of effects and blend modes, however I believe I have found the simplest one, and achieving practically the same result as in Photoshop
Step 1
Open a new document, the image I used can be found here.
Step 2
Now get an image of The Beatles Abbey Road cd.
Step 3
With the Pen Tool(P) lets create paths, you can use white for the stroke color. Tip: Don’t use fill.
Step 4
Here lets change the stroke settings, to do that, select all paths and then go to the type of Stroke and select Stroke Options... Use the image below for reference and values.
After that click on the Advanced button. Play with the settings to see how they change the strokes, then just group the paths.
Step 5
Duplicate the group 3 times so there will be 4 groups. After that apply a Gaussian Blur with 2 radius to the 2 groups on the top. Then select the 4 groups and change the Blend Mode to Overlay.
Step 6
The Beatles are shining, now we have to do the crosswalk. Create a rectangle (it will use the same stroke settings we used before). Copy this rectangle several times, after that aling and distribute them like the image below. Then group the rectangles.
Step 7
Use the Distort tool to adjust the perspective of the rectangles. Use the photo for reference and try to follow the vanish points. After that add a Gaussian Blur with 1.3 radius and change the Blend Mode to Overlay. Duplicate this group to make it brighter.
FINAL RESULT
About the author
I'm from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me or follow on Twitter.
21 Comments
Awesome! Keep this great job! Fireworks rocks!!!
Great Tut.. Fireworks rocks :D
Complicated, but it looks better :D
nice effect
Wow, looks great. Makes me want to upgrade from my ancient version of Fireworks MX =-(.
This looks really good, and your instructions are very clear and easy to understand. Great Job! I hope you post more tutorials like this.
The light effects are superb.Very useful for designers.
Very very very cool!
Omo...
U tight scatter...
That's a Nigerian "pidgeon" way of saying: "Bro' U're really good"
Just wondering... I really love Graphics & hope to go into CG someday,
Can U give me tuts as a novice !
PLEASE; can U hook a brotha up !
Thank You very nice topic
really relyyyyy coool!
i love it
Excelent effect!!!
Nice work ,great collection. Thanks for the share.
Really Creative !!! Good Tutooo !
Nice. Looks like my dated version of fireworks is missing some of these options. Blur options, paint brush, etc are all a bit different but I was ale to manage recreating the effect to a degree. Thanks.
:( can someone please give me the exact way how to get to the stroke options? my ps is in a different language, and i just cant seem to be able to find anything with options similar to what you screenshoted :(
Hi there...
im very new to fireworks (1 week) & never used photoshop. Do you know how to make faces/arms look slimmer like they do in magazines?
Keep up the good work.
Thank you in advance.
R
omg, this is sooo cool =)
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I would say this is good, but its not. Its just a cheat way of doing something that involves a lot of skill. Light painting is when you take a picture with a long exposure and draw in the air with a bright light. It looks better when done properly. look aat tuff done by Toby Keller, or the animation group Pika Pika.
excellent tutorial! help me understand fireworks features better! :D
but it would be awesome if you could make a post explaining about when to change the pressure, angle, speed, etc setting. For some of this setting, I've tried to change from its maximum value to its minimum but see no difference.
Thanks for this tutorial! :)
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