Adjustments Panel

An Adobe Fireworks plug-in that will help you adjust attributes.
Download

Adjustments Panel Ranking & Summary

Advertisement

  • Rating:
  • License:
  • Donationware
  • Publisher Name:
  • John Dunning
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://johndunning.com/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X 10.0 or later
  • File Size:
  • 373 KB

Adjustments Panel Tags


Adjustments Panel Description

If you want to make the fill color of an element darker, you can select it, open the Mixer panel, switch to HSB mode, and then drag the brightness slider. But what if you have two differently colored elements and want to make them both slightly darker? You can't use the Mixer panel because it will set both elements to the same color. A similar problem occurs when you have two elements with different opacities and you want to make them relatively more opaque. Using the Opacity menu in the Properties panel will set them both to the same transparency.Adjustments Panel is an Adobe Fireworks plug-in designed to make these and other tasks easier. When you open the panel from the Windows menu you'll see three rows of buttons. Pressing a button in the top row will perform the adjustment, incrementing or decrementing each element's attribute by either 1 or 10 points.You select which attribute to adjust by clicking in the middle row. The buttons are labeled "H" (hue), "S" (saturation), "B" (brightness), "O" (opacity) and "St" (stroke width). Only one attribute can be selected at a time.The bottom row of buttons are labeled "Fill", "Stroke" and "Both". This setting lets you control the hue, saturation or brightness of the fill and stroke colors independently. This selection does not apply to the opacity and stroke width settings.The HSB adjustments can affect any vector shape, path, text, auto shape or bitmap, or a group of those elements. The colors of nodes in gradient fills will be adjusted, shifting the overall effect of the gradient.The HSB colors of symbol instances cannot be adjusted with the panel, but their opacity can be. The stroke width setting works with any element that has a stroke. Reducing the stroke width all the way to 0 will remove the stroke, but trying to increment the stroke from 0 will not work. You must first apply a stroke and then adjust its width via the panel.Note that adjusting bitmaps is "destructive" in that reducing a bitmap's brigtness by 10 and then increasing it by 10 does not result in precisely the same image. You may also sometimes see the HSB values change by 9 or 11 points, due to rounding errors.


Adjustments Panel Related Software