Hey guys,

 

Does anyone here know how to create a nice vector image of a balloon in Fireworks and if so can someone please tell me?

 

Thanks a lot for reading.

What sort of baloon are we going for the long or the more rounded shape?

 

I can probably knock up an editable .png for you so you can download it and change the colours etc, let me know what you are after.

 

That would be awesome thanks.

Ok, no problem at all,

 

I've created 3 balloons for you, hopefully they are what you after.

 

Please see attached they are a fully editable Fireworks .png so you can easily change colours etc.

 

There 2 inner shadow effects which you can change to reflect the coloured balloon.

 

Balloons:

 

 

Enjoy

Nice shiny balloons there Ben.

 

/me carefully manoeuvres a needle...

Dude, these are perfect, thanks a lot!

Thanks very much glad you like them

 

It didn't take me long at all, the initial problem is getting the gradients/shadows right then it's a case of just copy and pasting and altering the colours

 

That's 1 member of the month point to me... he he

Hey, here is my quick attempt at the red balloon (on the right of course).

I might be able to make it a bit better with more time but I'm not sure.

What do you think? Any immediate thing to improve?

and how do you make your so round ? Mine is a kind of weird shape.

 

BTW my first time adding an image so if it doesn't work, sorry.

Can we vote you member of the month?

Or do you choose ?

Can we vote you member of the month?

Or do you choose ?

 

he he,

 

Unfortunately that's a bad side of being the admin, I don't get to win any awards.

 

Your balloon attempt is very good, I basically took the circle tool, the used the subselection tool (white curser next to the standard black one) and played with the bottom circle point..dragged it out...twisted to give the bottom a more elongated shape.

 

Are you able to edit the balloons I sent, you should be able to as I saved them as a layered .png.

 

Ohhh, yes i am.

 

I just thought I'd try copy it wit the pen tool.

But you used the circle tool?

 

Il give that a quick go.

Oh yeah, thats a little better using the circle tool.

Oh yeah, thats a little better using the circle tool.

 

May I see the results?

 

Here we go

I changed it blue when testing different colours but if you would like to see red i can change back again.

 

Enjoy, - and thanks for teaching me how to make balloons

Here we go

I changed it blue when testing different colours but if you would like to see red i can change back again.

 

Enjoy, - and thanks for teaching me how to make balloons

 

That is absolutely fantastic, I think yours is better than mine!

 

Really good work there, I look forward to seeing more of your stuff

 

If you ever need anything just give us a shout

I really like the blue balloon, I think with the slight purple tint it looks really good

thanks guys