Photos into FW

Getting a photo into FW

Best way to get a picture into Fireworks, is to copy it from the internet. Right-click on the picture in Chrome and "Copy Image".

Then in Fireworks:

  1. CTRL+N to get a new document. 
  2. Enter - the canvas size will automatically want to be the size of whatever picture you copied.
  3. Paste it in (CTRL+V).

If you paste it in and it's not centered on the canvas, some white showing...

... you can fix it by clicking and dragging until you see the guides for the center of the canvas, or just go down to Properties and change the X & Y values to "0".

Changing Image size

If a picture is really big (wider than 1000 pixels), you can reduce the size. Just go to Image Size in Properties if you don't have anything selected (or go to MODIFY>Canvas>...)

In the box that pops up, change the width OR height. Make sure the box for "Constrain Proportions" is not unchecked or you picture will be squished/stretched.