[Web4lib] learning fireworks

[Katie Dunneback]

Ray,

In case you haven't found it already, it is "Resize Canvas" that you should
be looking for to modify the checkered background, and it's in the top
section of the "Modify" menu.  If you resize the canvas without resizing the
image, you will not get the full image.  You do have to resize both.

Katie
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hankinson
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:42 PM
To: web4lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] learning fireworks

Hi Ray,

While I don't have Fireworks on hand to directly check this, I think I
know the problem you're having.  Fireworks uses layers, and so if you
just resize an image using the handles on a picture, you're resizing
the layer, but not the _canvas_.  To resize the whole image, look in
the menus for something like "resize image" or "resize canvas."  (I
could tell you where to look in Photoshop, but that wouldn't do you
any good!)

Cheers,
Andrew

On 4/26/07, Raumin Ray Dehghan <infoscience1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Web4lib colleagues:
>
>    I am learning Fireworks, the graphic editor, and I have a question:
>
> When you make an image smaller, you get a checkered black-and-white
> background from the remaining space (where your image used to be).
>
> Could somebody tell me how to resize that actual checkered space, that
> original space that the graphic used to occupy?
>
>    If anybody knows the answer to this, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
> West Chicago Public Library
> West Chicago, Illinois
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