![]() ![]() So, I said “Why not? It’ll be fun!” (which I think every developer should say now and then), and started developing my own extension. I found a few, but many of them were unmaintained or not up to my standard of quality. OK well, not right to work - I had never made a Fireworks extension before, and this kind of thing always has a learning curve, right?įirst, I did some research to see whether an extension of such sort had been made before. When you mouse over a name, a preview window of that texture pops up, but there is no easy way to get to or to quickly identify your most commonly used textures, and if you often use a lot of textures (like I do), your workflow can get cramped a bit.Īpplying a texture in Fireworks (using the Properties panel).īeing a Fireworks user myself, after noticing this issue, I got right to work on finding an improvement. ![]() ![]() As it is, you’re presented with a text listing of all of your textures. Unfortunately, the way Fireworks lists textures isn’t as intuitive (or fast) as it could be. In this article, we’ll look at an extension that does just that: the Texture Panel.Ĭurrently in Fireworks, you can apply textures (which are pulled from your “Textures” folder) to whatever vector shape you’re working on. While Fireworks is an amazing tool in other areas, the usability of the textures feature could definitely be improved. When you’re working in Fireworks - be it for a website design, mobile design or graphic asset for a project - one need you will undoubtedly have is support for textures. ![]()
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