Rollovers and layers

I am trying to make a complicated rollover web image that
started off as an Illustrator file, exported to Photoshop, and now
open in Fireworks.
The idea is to create rollover slices where the image states
change simply by making various layers visible and invisible-
Should be easy- I have done it in PhotoShop/Image Ready; but, since
no more Image Ready I am really lost and have tried to figure this
out for days...
Sorry if this is a rudimentary question but I have a deadline
looming and, well, for now at least, I wish I had Image Ready back!
TIA,
-Allen M.

elthib wrote:
>> The idea is to create rollover slices where the
image states change simply by
> > making various layers visible and invisible- Should
be easy- I have done it
> in
> > PhotoShop/Image Ready; but, since no more Image
Ready I am really lost and
> have
> > tried to figure this out for days...
>
>
> allen_m,
>
> I am having the same problem or at least one similar to
yours. My rollovers
> were created in PhotoShop/ImageReady CS2. It sounds like
yours were created in
> a similar manner (various layers visible and invisible).
I'm trying to create
> them in Fireworks hoping I could do it like I did in
CS2. Someone on my post
> told me to create the text for the rollovers in
Dreamweaver. That does not
> solve my problem. I want the website to be a click
through/prototype with all
> of the rollovers. CS2 created all the rollovers when
they were sliced and
> exported.
> If you go to
http://www.nfc.usda.gov you will
see the rollover effect I am
> trying to achieve in Fireworks.
>
> I hope you get a better response than me.
>
> LT
>
>
>
Fireworks doesn't do this by changing layer visibility. It
creates
rollovers using States.
A quick search of the help files produced these results:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Fireworks/10.0_Using/WS4c25cfbb1410b0021e63e3d1152b00db4b-7fd3 .html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Fireworks/10.0_Using/WS4c25cfbb1410b0021e63e3d1152b00db4b-7fda .html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Fireworks/9.0/help.html?content=frw_slicing_sl_01.html
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