• Start a new document in Fireworks (File>New). Set the canvas size to around 400 by 200 and select white as the canvas color.
• Click the ellipse tool on the tools toolbar.
• While holding down the Shift Key, draw out a Circle. FYI: Holding the shift key makes a perfectly proportional circle. To make the shape more ellipse, don't hold down the shift as you drag out the circle. Below is the circle.

Notice the stroke and fill on the tools toolbar. To actually increase of decrease the line thickness, you will have to open the stroke panel (Window>Stoke).

Creating a Half Circle:

• You can half a circle using the eraser tool . Click on the circle you want to half, click the eraser tool, then while holding down the left mouse, drag between the two blue circles as shown in the example above. Hint: If you hold down the shift key, you can draw a perfectly straight line.

This is the circle shown above divided into two halves. If you only want one half, simply select the half you do not want and then click the delete key.

Rounded Rectangles:

• Select the rounded rectangle tool , then while holding down the left mouse, click and drag open the rounded rectangle.

While holding down the mouse button, press the Up/Down Arrow Keys to adjust the roundness of the rectangle.

You can always edit the roundness of the rectangle AFTER you've drawn it by adjusting the Roundness Setting in the Objects Panel. Be sure to have the rectangle selected before adjusting the Roundness Setting. If you don't see this panel, click Windows>Object.

Creating Stars In Fireworks:

• Begin by double clicking the Polygon Tool to open the Polygon Options Palette shown below.

Choose Star from the pop up menu. Change the Sides to 5 and select Automatic for starters. This will give you your basic star shape.

• Click and drag out a star.
• Adjust the settings. Now, you can play with the different sides and angles to create some unique stars.
• Adjust the angle. Changing the angle will automatically deselect the "Automatic" option. Fireworks default angle for stars is 38.

Creating Triangles Using the Polygon Tool:

• Begin by double clicking the Polygon Tool to open the Polygon Options Palette as you did above with the star shape.

Select polygon, then select 3 for number of sides.

Drag out your triangle.

Creating Symmetrical Shapes:

• Open a new file with 200 x 200 x 72 pixels.
• Make sure the Rulers are on, if not go to View > rulers.
• Drag a guideline right in the center at 100 pixels. To activate the guideline, simple click in the left margin of the window, hold down your left mouse and drag the guideline out.
• Here I am trying to draw a symmetrical heart, Select the pen tool and draw one half of the heart as shown below.

Notice that I have several blue dots on mine. This is how many times I clicked on the canvas to get the shape.

Use the freeform tool to pull the blue dots around to get a better shape. You will have to rotate between the freeform tool and the subselection tool .

• Now copy this shape and paste it again on the same canvas, by default it will be pasted on the original shape created, select it with the arrow tool and move it aside as shown below

• Now go to Modify > Transform > Flip Horizontal, it should look like as shown below.
• Your heart is taking up shape now as you can see, Now comes the real trick, do not worry its not very tricky.
• Align the shape you just pasted on the right to the one on the left so that both the upper and lower points stick to each other by their edges, the trick to do this is to, go to Modify > Align > Center Horizontal, you will get something like shown below.
• Now keeping both the shapes selected go to Modify > combine > Union
  

With a little more effort, this heart could be a work of art. This exercise was just an example of what you can do using the pen, freeform, and subselection tool. The possibilities are endless.