How to Create Flowers - Fireworks Tutorial

Adobe Fireworks is the perfect tool for quickly designing and editing web graphics. It also has the ability to produce high quality vector images without taking too much of your precious time.

In the following tutorial I will show you how to design a beautiful flower using Star auto shape.

Requirement

Fireworks CS3 and higher.

Tutorial

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

1. New document
Create a new document with a canvas size of 300 pixels by 300 pixels and give it a white background. In the Tools panel select the Star auto shape. Drag a 6-side star on the canvas.

Figure 2: Star Auto Shape
2. Create the Shape
To create the flower shape, select the "roundness 1" control point and drag it towards the centre of your star until you have a flower shape with a hexagon centre and six petals.
3. Auto Shape Properties
For better control, you can, alternatively, go into the Auto shape Properties panel and insert these values:

Figure 3: Auto Shape Properties
4. Radial Gradient
Select the new shape. With the scale tool, increase the size of your flower to 239 pixels by 207 pixels and add a radial gradient #9A5EB0 > #71198F

Figure 4: Radial Gradient
5. Clone
Clone the shape by pressing (Ctrl+Alt+C on Windows and Command+Option+C on a Mac) to create a second flower, select the top most flower and reduce it to 80% with the Numeric Transform (Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows and Command+Shift+T on a Mac) and modify the radial gradient on this flower to: #D3B8DC > #620082.

Figure 5: Clone
6. Filters
With the top most flower selected again, apply 4 live filters (Live filters remain editable so you can change them in your Fireworks source PNG at a later time).
1. Shadow and Glow > Inner glow

Figure 6: Inner Glow
2. Noise > Add noise

Figure 7: Add Noise
3. Blur > Zoom Blur.

Figure 8: Zoom Blur
4. Sharpen > Sharpen More
5. Finally, you are going to apply Shadow and Glow > Drop shadow to the first flower you created.
7. Filters
After applying your Live filters, your flower should look like this:

Figure 9: Live Filters
8. Now for the final part of the flower.
1. Duplicate the top most flower (clone or duplicate) to create a third flower ; reduce it and place it on top of the others. Increase the number of points/petals to 18 by dragging the yellow Points control handle upwards.

Figure 10: Live Filters
2. Modify the radial gradient to have yellow in the center. Et voil�!

Figure 11: Yellow gradient
9. Final Result.



Figure 12: Final Result


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