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Using Vector Tool to redesign bitmap image

There are many situations in which you'll find yourself wanting to redesign a bitmap image with vectors tools. Perhaps you scanned a photo of a building but the image is too small and making it larger will degrade the quality. Perhaps you want to practice drawing vector images that look three-dimensional, using lots of gradations, shading, and highlights. Or perhaps you started with (or your client gave you) a prefabricated web page composed entirely of bitmap images and you need to change the texture or coloring—and pronto. In all these situations, the solution is to use the bitmap image as a kind of "pattern" and then employ vector tools to redraw the various pieces of the image. As you experiment with this process you'll be surprised to learn that—with textures, patterns, and effects—an image made up of vector shapes can have a very definite bitmap and three-dimensional "look" in Fireworks MX. This tutorial uses, as an example, a pre-made web page designed by Scott Balay of Eyeland Studio. All the pieces of this page are bitmaps and difficult to manipulate or change once they are opened in Fireworks MX. I'll show you how to take one of the more difficult pieces of this web page and redraw it as a vector. You'll then be able to resize it or change the effects as you like. The techniques you learn here can be used for any bitmap-tracing project in your workload. Note: The sample PSD file is provided to you courtesy of Eyeland Studio. You are free to use it. This particular interface is part of the Photoshop Foundry CD which has 120 interfaces and more.

Sample files Before you begin, download these samples files to help you follow along with the tutorial:

Windows Macintosh bitmap_vector.zip (2.5 MB) bitmap_vector.sit (2.5 MB)

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Installing FTP Server software on your PC

Setting up an FTP Server:
1. Download Software: Fastream NETFile FTP
http://www.fastream.com/netfileserver.htm
2. Install the NetFileServer.exe
3. Restart machine
4. Click Fastream NETFile Server GUI shortcut on the desktop
First login user: root
First login pass: (press space bar 4 times. password is 4 spaces)

5. Chek IIS through the Services if started. Stop IIS if running so that you can use port 21 especially for Dreamweaver MX connection which always llok for port 21.
6.In server Manager tab Click Add FTP server, name it accordingly to your purpose. Example: rapid
This will create a new tab called FTP-rapid
7. With the created FTP tab go to users tab and Create Group
8. Create users for each group
9. Assign folders to access with permission for each user. Set its home page.
10. In the option tab of the FTP tab set the listening IP to to the IP address of your PC server.
11. Set listening Port to 21.
12. Got to status tab of FTP tab and click Start. This will start the service

NOTE: Make sure to change the root user password:
1. Go to Server Manager tab and click on Current Admin user setting tab.
Replace password and reenter it in the confirm password.
2. Click Apply.