Lifted Corners - Fireworks 8 tutorial

Date April 11, 2008

If you run around the web, you may have noticed a trend out there with the themes people run. I’m not sure what anyone else calls it, but I call them Lifted Corners and I figured out a simple way to achieve it in Fireworks 8 (should be the same in most later versions.

There’s really not a lot of steps here and it’s pretty simple.

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You can do this a couple of ways, for the sake of this tutorial I’m going to use the Canvas as my background. So saying that, choose a color for your background. I would suggest white for now, it shows the shadows the best.

Another thing to think about is the width of your theme, say the content would be 780px, if that is the case I would suggest anywhere from 800 to 820 for the width of your canvas. The reason why is to allow for the shadow width.