Adobe Fireworks CS6

Getting Started

When you open Fireworks, you will see this Welcome window. You can open a new document by clicking on the top right...

Then you need to set a size. If you don't know yet what the size of your assignment needs to be, just set it to anything; you can change it later.

Set up Workspace

Now you see the default workspace. In the panels on the right, double-click on the tab names for "Optimize" anad "Styles" to collapse them. Click on "Layers" so that's showing.

When it looks like this, go to "Expanded Mode"...

Choose "Save Current". A new window pops up - type in your name and say OK. This is so that if your workspace ever gets messed up, you can just click on the one that's your name and it's reset to this layout.


Increase Undos

Go to Edit>Preferences... or CTRL+U and change the number of times you can undo (CTRL+Z) from "20" to "100" or "150".