How to Make a Turkey Animated GIF in Fireworks
It’s important to note that Adobe no longer offers Fireworks CC as a part of the Creative Cloud. If you are looking for Fireworks it can be found in the Find Additional Apps section of the Creative Cloud. When Adobe announces that it will no longer support or update applications, you can assume it is only a matter of time before the application disappears. Next, choose File > Save, name the file turkey with a png extension, choose where you want to save it, and click Save. In the Properties panel, make the stroke width 2 pixels. Then choose the Ellipse tool in the Tools panel, which can be found by clicking on the small arrow next to the Rectangle tool or other visible shape tools. While holding down the shift key, click and drag to create a large circle. (Using the shift assures that the circle will be perfectly round.) With the Pointer tool, click and drag the small circle into place. You want it to overlap the top of the large circle, as shown. Next, choose Window > Auto Shape Properties. Click on the polygon shape and indicate that you want both the points and sides to be 3 and the radius 180 degrees. To make the triangle smaller, type 20 in the Outer Radius value field. The number for this depends on how large the triangle was, to begin with. Then press return. With the Pointer tool, click on the triangle and drag it to where you think it should sit for the beak. After selecting the Pen tool in the Tools panel, click on the Fill box and choose a red swatch, or type #FF0000 in the Hex value field, then press return. With the Pen tool, click to create points that form a path, and sometimes click and drag to create a rounded path. When the last point connects with the first, you will have formed a shape that looks like a turkey’s snood. Next, use the Pen tool to create points that form a shape that resembles a turkey’s leg. With the shape selected, choose Edit > Duplicate. Then choose Modify > Transform > Flip Horizontal. With the Pointer tool, position the legs where they look best. With all of your shapes still selected, use the Pointer tool to move the turkey into place. You want it centered low on the canvas. Click away from the ovals to deselect them, then click on one oval at a time and drag them separately to where they will sit next to each other and partially behind the turkey. Using Smart Guides can help to evenly position the ovals that are opposite each other. If you don’t see the smart guides at work, choose View > Smart Guides > Show Smart Guides. Rotate the remaining ovals in the same way, and position them into place; distributing them evenly. Next, click on a tail feather to select it, then on the Fill box and choose a different color. Do this for each tail feather, then choose File > Save As. Rename the file, turkey2 with a png extension, and click Save. Click on the turkey2.png tab and do the same, only you’ll name this one symbol 2. When you click on the first state to select it, you’ll see that it holds a symbol. When you click on the second state, you’ll see that it’s empty. To add a symbol to this empty state, Choose File > Import > navigate to your turkey2.png file, click Open, then Open again. Then click on the upper right corner of the canvas to place the file in the correct position. Now, when you click between the first and second states, you’ll see that both hold images. You can also press the Play/Stop button at the bottom of the window to preview the animation. If you don’t like the speed of the animation, you can double-click on the numbers to the right of each state to make adjustments. The higher the number the longer the duration time. To open and play the Animation GIF in your browser, launch your browser and choose File > Open or Open File. Navigate to your saved Animated GIF file, choose it, click Open, and enjoy the fruits of your labor!
