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You can create a new document within Fireworks in several ways. One you can select the new icon from the main menu, or you can select file and then new. And within Fireworks the new document dialogue box appears. When you create a new document in Fireworks, you are creating a portable network graphic file or PNG document. PNG is a native file format for Fireworks. After you create a new document and import or create graphics within Fireworks, you can also export them in a variety of familiar web graphic formats such as JPEG, GIF and animated GIF. And of course you can also export the graphics to any of the popular multimedia formats use for CD-ROM development, application development and so forth such as TIFF, BMP or PICT. And whatever optimization and export settings you choose, the original Fireworks PNG file is preserved to allow easy editing latter. And of course before you can export any graphics, you must first create a new document or open up an existing document. Keep in mind you can always modify these settings later in the property inspector. There are several options we can choose from. One is the width, height, and then resolution; and we can choose whether we want to use pixels, inches are centimeters. We can also choose the background canvas color. We can choose white, transparent, or if we select custom, we can click on this picker and choose any color we wish to use. I'll go head and select OK, and you can see our document has now been created. One thing Fireworks does is to give the document a name by default, and this case is untitled-7.png. And obviously when you save this document you want to give it more meaningful name. Saving a PNG file is very straightforward. If we select and click on the save menu shortcut, this document will be saved with this name. However, I would I highly recommend giving it a more meaningful name based on your project. If we select file and save as, we can give the file any name we want to, and once again it's going to use the PNG extension. I will go head and cancel this operation, and I am going to close our new document without saving. Opening up an existing document is very straightforward; you can select file, and then open or open recent. Open recent will show you the last 10 PNG files you've been working on. In this case I am going to open up a document that I created for a CD-ROM, and originally it was setup for 800x600 canvas size. And you can see that we can only show up a portion of that; in fact we are only showing 53%. What Fireworks will do is bring in the document and try to fit it on the background in the canvas area. You can adjust this in several ways. By clicking on this drop down menu, I can select 100%. And that gives us a viewing of exactly what this document will look like. And you can see in this case our document is considerably larger then this canvas area. And this is due to fact of course that we are recording this movie. And limited to the real estate on the screen. And we can change the magnification in several ways. We just use this drop down menu, but I can also select the magnification tool. And by clicking on it, I can magnify our canvas or if I hold down the Alt key, I can zoom back out. Right mouse clicking, I can select fit all and we are back to seeing our canvas as it originally was when we imported it into Fireworks. They are also some other tabs up here I'd like to talk about before we end this movie. By default, you will be using the original tab the vast majority of the time you're working within Fireworks. And this is were you will import, modify, add slices, hotspots, create behaviors, and export it and so forth. These other tabs are to give you an idea of what your project will look like when it's optimized using the optimize settings that you have created. Preview shows you the entire canvas area, complete with the hotspots and slices being active. You can also compare optimization settings; with 2-up, you will see two different optimization settings you can choose from. And 4-up you can see four different optimization settings. And once again before you could use any of the graphics you have created within Fireworks, you need to export them. And to export graphics, you will need to choose an optimization setting. You can optimize or actually export graphics in a variety of ways. Selecting file and then export, you can see a variety of the different file formats you can export. You can export HTML and images, images only, Dreamweaver library, CSS layers, director. And this is used to import behaviors within director, along with the slices that you have created. Layers to files, frames to files, lotus domino designer, macromedia SWF or swiff format, illustrator 7 or Photoshop PSD. And you can actually maintain the text editability over appearance. I will go ahead and cancel this operation out. And under optimize, you can see the various web oriented optimization settings that you have. You have various GIF settings, JPEG, and if you select this dropdown menu, you can see you can save as a GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, PNG in several formats. WBMP which is used for WAP devices, TIFF in various formats, and BMP. G, and if you select this dropdown menu, you can see you can save as a GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, PNG in several formats. WBMP which is used for WAP devices, TIFF in various formats, and BMP.