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When you open Fireworks for the first time, all the panels are docked and grouped in the default configuration (Refer to Figure 1-3 to see this default configuration) However, undocking and moving panels and putting them in custom groups is easy To move a panel, follow these steps:

2 Drag the panel to the spot on the screen where you would like it to go 3 Release the mouse button

You now see the panel in the position you selected, in its own window, as shown in Figure 1-4

When you move a panel, you automatically undock it, but you don t automatically dock it somewhere else when you release the mouse button The panel remains floating in the Fireworks window until you dock it To dock a panel, follow these steps:

A docking area is anywhere along the outer edge of the Document window or adjacent to a docked panel When you have dragged the panel over a docking area, a rectangle appears on the screen to give you a preview of the space the panel would occupy if you docked it there

The panel is docked in its expanded state Fireworks allows you the option to consolidate or group panels, which provides a nice way to put the panels you like using together To group a panel with another panel, follow these steps:

The panel you added appears as a tab in the panel to which you added it Follow these steps to remove a panel from a group:

1 Click the tab of the panel you want to separate from the group 2 Click the Panel Options icon at the top right of the panel

choosing them from the Window menu If you have moved your panels around and docked them to accommodate a particular project or document, you can save your panel arrangement by choosing Commands Panel Layout Sets Save Panel Layout and giving your settings a name You can then retrieve that layout set-up from the same location

Setting preferences allows you to customize the way Fireworks handles certain basic functions and displays certain items To edit Fireworks preferences, choose Edit Preferences or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+U As you can see in Figure 1-5, the Preferences dialog box has five tabs: General Editing Launch and Edit Folders Import

You can select the General tab on the Preferences dialog box and customize the following settings: Undo Steps: Set the value from 0 to 999 This setting affects Edit Undo/ Redo and also increases the number of possible steps in the History panel Be aware, however, that the more Undo steps you allow, the more memory Fireworks requires You must close and relaunch Fireworks to use the new setting Color Defaults: Set the default colors for Stroke (a line or border), Fill (the inside of a shape), and Highlight (the color that indicates what you currently have selected) To apply the changes to the default Stroke and Fill colors in the current document, you must click the Set Default Stroke/Fill Colors button in the Tools panel Interpolation: Choose one of the four methods that Fireworks can use to render a change to the image size: Bicubic Interpolation, the default method, generally yields the highest-quality results Soft Interpolation blurs the image slightly Bilinear Interpolation gives a sharpness level somewhere in between Bicubic and Soft Nearest Neighbor Interpolation sharpens edges For more details on changing image size, see Book III, 2 Launch options: Select this check box if you want to see the Start Page when you launch Fireworks; deselect the check box if you don t want to see the Start Page

Select the Edit tab to access these editing preferences in Fireworks: Precise Cursors: Select this check box if you prefer to use cross hairs as a cursor instead of the custom cursors for each tool Delete Objects When Cropping: Leave this check box selected if you want to delete objects and pixels that fall outside the area to which you crop your image Brush-Size Painting Cursors: Select this check box if you want the cursor size to represent the size of stroke you are about to make Bitmap Option: Select the Turn Off Hide Edges check box if you always want to see the path selection feedback of a selected object Pen Tool Options: You have two options here: Select the Show Pen Preview check box if you want Fireworks to show what your path will look like (before you actually draw the line) based on the position of your cursor Select the Show Solid Points check box if you want selected points to appear hollow and deselected points to appear solid Pointer Tool Options: You have several options here: Select the Mouse Highlight check box if you want an object s selection feedback (the box that indicates that an object has been selected) to activate when you roll the cursor over that object Select the Preview Drag check box if you want to see an object as you drag it Select the Show Fill Handles check box if you want to be able to drag handles to change the position, width, skew, and rotation of a gradient fill Set the value of the Pick Distance option from 1 to 10 to specify how close in pixels your cursor needs to be to an object for you to select it Set the value of the Snap Distance option from 1 to 10 to specify how close to a grid or guide in pixels an object must be before the object snaps to the grid or guide