: Can the star tool in fireworks be used to create this star? I used the star tool in Fireworks to create this star: Can Fireworks be used to make this star look like this: If no, then

@Holmes874

This is best done as vector, but let's do it in bitmap. Photoshop has easy to understand tools for it.

At first draw a pentagon. It's a vector shape, but it is used only as quide. Then make a selection with polygonal lasso tool. Draw as a non-breking polyline all diagonals of the pentagon. The selection is your star shape. Fill it with a color into a new layer:



Save the selection for easy recall. You can need it later for example when testing something.

Select a half of the star and adjust it 10% darker with the curves tool:



Repeat it 4 times starting the selection every time from different cusp. Your star gets divided to segments that have different brightnesses:



The segments are now easy to fill with only 2 different shades. Use the paint bucket with low tolerance:



This can already be useful to something, but for glow select the darker areas one by one with the magic wand and fill the areas with a gradient:



The pentagon has no more any function, so it can be removed.

If you want the stroke, you can simulate it by making a little bigger colored star below the original. The original star was duplicated, stretched to a little larger size and turned to black with the curves tool and finally colorized to dark blue with Image > Adjustments > Hue&Saturation > Colorize.

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@Caterina889

The Star Tool is practically any application will assist in drawing a star shape.

As far as I'm aware, none of the Adobe applications have the built in ability to ad dimensioning to the shape of a star, as in your second image.

The easiest way to achieve a star with the dimensioning would be to use a glyph from a dingbat font. For example, Zapf Dingbats contains a similar star:



But you would then have to create outlines and edit further to add gradients.

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