Taking a Tour of the Fireworks MX 2004 Interface

• Eraser tool: Click the Eraser tool to erase a swath through any bitmap object on the canvas.

• Rubber Stamp/Replace Color/Red Eye Removal tool: Click this tool to copy

a selected area of a bitmap to another spot on the canvas. Alt+click the area that you want to copy, and then click and paint where you want the copy to go. Use the new Replace Color tool to swap one color for another wherever you click and drag the Replace Color brush on the canvas. Simply click with the new Red Eye Removal tool to replace red with black wherever you click the canvas.

• Paint Bucket/Gradient tool: Click this tool and then click a shape on the canvas to fill the shape with a solid color (Paint Bucket) or gradient.

• Eyedropper tool: Click this handy tool to select a color from the swatches in the color picker or from any object on the canvas by clicking the desired color.

• Blur/Sharpen/Dodge/Burn/Smudge tool: Click this tool and click and drag on the canvas to soften the focus of (Blur) or bring into focus (Sharpen) an area of a bitmap image. Click the Dodge tool and click and drag on the canvas to lighten an area of a bitmap image. Click the Burn tool and click and drag to darken an area of a bitmap image. Click the Smudge tool and click and drag on the canvas to smear a part of an image into another part of the image, as if you were finger painting. You can set the parameters for these tools in the Property inspector.