I’ve got a confession to make - I don’t do Photoshop very well.
In spite of my best intentions, I can’t seem to wrap my head around all the stuff expert designers take for granted. I guess I’ve got the mind of a coder. The fact that I can take a finished graphic and convert it into lovely XHTML and CSS code but would rather be coding PHP, Perl, Ruby, (insert new flavour of the month here) seems to attest to this.

Fireworks is another story. This absolutely simple-to-use application is where I spend most of my time when I need to work with graphics. The learning curve is a lot easier and for the 10% of stuff I need to do that it can’t handle, I’ve got friendly designer, Photoshop-expert friends.

That said, Fireworks related information on the web a little thin. The following tutorials and resources have been really helpful and hopefully they will be useful to you too (if you’re the Fireworks type).

Tutorials

• Glossy Button in Fireworks
• Fireworks Web 2.0 Styles
• Web 2.0 Styles (Fireworks CS3 only)
• Web 2.0 Style Text With Fireworks
• Creating Web 2.0 elements in Fireworks
• Creating an icon in Fireworks
• Creating user interface mockups with Fireworks

Resources

• Tutsbuzz.com - Adobe Fireworks Tutorials
• Firetuts.com - Adobe Fireworks Tutorials
• Tutcity - Adobe Fireworks Tutorials
• Various Articles, tips and extensions
• Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads
• qrayg.com - Adobe Fireworks Tutorials
• Tutorials, text effects and image effects