How do I brush color along diagonal straight line?

I am a newbie to FW.

I am trying to remove the $50 off image on this page:
http://www.ntbzzz.com/order.html. What's the best tool to use to fill in the
diagonal line? I used the "brush" tool to fill in the bulk of the image with
yellow and some black, but what's the best tool to use to make the diagonal
line straight? My hands aren't that steady to use the brush tool are yours?

I used the Pen Tool to create shapes to cover the affected area's.

http://onanysunday.co.uk/misc_images/blackYellow.fw.png

You could also achieve the same result by dragging out three rectangles
(black, yellow, black) and tweak the shape using the subselection tool
(white arrow).

Peter
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"quality11" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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|I am a newbie to FW.
|
| I am trying to remove the $50 off image on this page:
| http://www.ntbzzz.com/order.html. What's the best tool to use to fill in
the
| diagonal line? I used the "brush" tool to fill in the bulk of the image
with
| yellow and some black, but what's the best tool to use to make the
diagonal
| line straight? My hands aren't that steady to use the brush tool are
yours?
|

Hi PJR,

Thanks for your help and for showing me your end result. I see a pencil tool,
but not a pen tool and unfortunately, I don't understand what you mean by
either method that you explain below...

I used the Pen Tool to create shapes to cover the affected area's.

http://onanysunday.co.uk/misc_images/blackYellow.fw.png

You could also achieve the same result by dragging out three rectangles
(black, yellow, black) and tweak the shape using the subselection tool
(white arrow).

The file I uploaded is an editable Fireworks png (hence the bloated file
size) if you save the file you should be able to open it in Fireworks with
all the layers in tact. If you open the Layers panel ( Window > Layers F2)
you should be able to see the three paths and your original bitmap. You can
turn each on or off using the 'eye' feature.

You can select each path and the individual anchor points using the
subselect tool (white arrow), once selected you can modify using the arrow
keys on your keyboard one pixel at a time.

You should be able to find the 'Pen' tool at the top of the Vector section
of your Tools panel on the left next to the 'Line' tool.

Peter
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| Thanks for your help and for showing me your end result. I see a pencil
tool,
| but not a pen tool and unfortunately, I don't understand what you mean by
| either method that you explain below...

PJR,

I finally got a chance to do this. Excellent! That worked. Thanks so much
for you help. Much easier than I thought. Take a look:
http://www.ntbzzz.com/order.html Let me know if you think it is acceptable or
needs some tweaking.

Looks fine to me :-) If I had a bit more time I think I would have recreated
the image completely, if you know what the font's are it really wouldn't
have taken very long. Are you a PhotoShop user by any chance? Just struck me
as a PhotoShop way of doing things from your initial question. Fireworks
methods are very different and it can be confusing at first. I found I
didn't really start to make good progress until I actually got rid of
PhotoShop. I have it back now with CS3 creative suite web premium package,
but rarely use it anymore.

Peter
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"quality11" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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| PJR,
|
| I finally got a chance to do this. Excellent! That worked. Thanks so
much
| for you help. Much easier than I thought. Take a look:
| http://www.ntbzzz.com/order.html Let me know if you think it is
acceptable or
| needs some tweaking.
|

So glad to hear that! I like FW a lot (even though I'm such a beginner) and it
seems to integrate so well with DW. I heard that the CS3 package no longer
included FW...?

No....I have never really used Photoshop. Now, I am totally confused why you
would have recreated the whole image (?? B/c Photoshop doesn't have the same
tools/features?

Adobe CS3 Web Premium does include Fireworks and you also get full and free
access the Fireworks CS4 beta, which has a bundle of new and improved
features. I think it's the Design Premium that does not include Fireworks
but you do get InDesign in it's place I believe, but do check with Adobe.

Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you. The only reason I would have recreated
the image, 'the top section' is I think it would have been easier and better
to get rid of the '$50 off image' altogether, then simply redraw the yellow
section. One large new yellow section against two black and one small yellow
sections. Nothing in it really, but if you look really closely, and probably
only because I know it's there, there is a very slight fuzziness on the
yellow section where we hid the red. But I am being very picky :-)

Peter
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"quality11" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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| So glad to hear that! I like FW a lot (even though I'm such a beginner)
and it
| seems to integrate so well with DW. I heard that the CS3 package no
longer
| included FW...?
|
| No....I have never really used Photoshop. Now, I am totally confused why
you
| would have recreated the whole image (?? B/c Photoshop doesn't have the
same
| tools/features?
|

On 02 Sep 2008 in macromedia.fireworks, PJR wrote:

> I think it's the Design Premium that does not include Fireworks but
> you do get InDesign in it's place I believe, but do check with
> Adobe.

Of the six suites - Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web
Standard, Production Premium and Master Collection - the only ones which
don't include Fireworks are Design Standard and Production Premium.
Adobe tossed it in with Design Premium as of the 3.3 upgrade.

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