Nigel Chapman / Jenny Chapman

Digital Media Tools

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Digital Media Tools is a clearly focused introduction to the major software tools used for creating multimedia. Focusing on multimedia authoring for the Web, it offers basic tutorials on the practical preparation of illustrations and still images, video a

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• 2nd edition
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470857489
• ISBN-10: 047085748X
• Artikelnr.: 10077335

Autorenporträt

N. Chapman, Edinburgh, Scotland; J. Chapman, Edinburgh, Scotland

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Note on the 2nd Edition

1. Introduction

2 .Common Features

2a. Macromedia MX Interface Elements

3. Photoshop: Bitmapped Images

3a. Photoshop 7

4. ImageReady: Web Graphics

5. Flash: Animation with Interactivity

5a. Flash MX

6. Illustrator: Vector Graphics

6a. Illustrator 10

7. Dreamweaver: Web Sites

7a. Dreamweaver MX

8. Premiere: Video and Audio

9. Colour, Typography & Bézier Curves

10. Optimizing Images for the Web

Projects

Index

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Welcome.
Teaching and Learning Features.
Supporting Web Site.
1 Introduction.
Safe Working with Digital Media Tools.
2 Interface Basics.
Platforms.
Menus and Commands.
File Menu.
Edit Menu.
Help Menu.
Keyboard Shortcuts.
Context Menus.
Panels.
Panel Groups and Docks.
Workspaces.
Panel Controls.
Common Panels.
Tools Panel.
Options Bar, Control and Properties Panels.
Layers Panel.
Navigator Panel.
History Panel.
Automating Repetitive Tasks.
Replaying History.
Actions.
Layout Aids.
Rulers and Grids.
Guides.
3 Bridge.
The Browser Window.
The Default View.
Other Workspaces.
Rotating.
Slide Shows.
Compact Mode.
Stacks.
Navigation and File Operations.
Navigation.
File and Folder Operations.
Interacting with Other Programs.
File Organization.
Ratings, Labels and Keywords.
Metadata.
Filtering and Sorting.
Retrieval.
4 Photoshop.
Fundamentals.
Opening and Importing Images.
Saving and Exporting.
Resolution.
Modes and Colour Spaces.
Creating Images.
Layers.
Making and Using Selections.
Marquee Selection and Cropping.
Lasso Selections.
Selecting by Colour.
Paths.
Combining and Transforming Selections.
Selecting and Extracting Objects.
Masks.
Adjustments and Retouching.
Tonal Adjustments.
Colour Adjustments.
Retouching by Hand.
Effects and Filters.
Smart Filters.
Blurring and Sharpening.
Artistic Filters and Distortion.
Layer Effects and Layer Styles.
Vanishing Point.
Painting Pixels.
The Paintbrush and Pencil.
The Brushes Panel.
Selecting with Brushes.
Erasing.
Fills.
Animation.
Animated GIFs.
The Animation Panel.
Animating Layer Properties.
5 Illustrator.
Fundamentals.
Vector Graphics.
Creating Documents.
Technical Drawing.
Stroke and Fill.
Shape Tools.
Freehand Drawing.
Manipulating Objects.
Selection.
Transforming Objects.
Reshaping.
Appearance.
Complex Fills and Strokes.
Live Paint.
Effects, Filters and Styles.
3D Effects.
Warping.
The Appearance Panel.
Symbols.
Symbols and Instances.
Symbol Sets and the Symbolism Tools.
Symbols and 3D.
Bitmaps.
Combining Bitmaps and Vector Art.
Importing Bitmaps.
Manipulating Bitmapped Images.
Live Trace.
Shared Features.
Selection.
Colour.
Drawing Aids.
Layers.
Type.
Web Graphics.
6 Flash.
Basic Concepts.
Documents and Movies.
The Stage and the Timeline.
Artwork.
Drawing.
Selection.
Transformations and Reshaping.
Graphic Symbols.
Importing Artwork.
Animation.
Animating One Frame at a Time.
Motion Tweening.
Editing Animations.
Animated Symbols.
Shape Tweening.
Sound and Video.
Sound.
Video.
7 Dreamweaver.
Fundamentals.
Web Pages and Sites.
User Interface.
Preferences.
Formatting Web Pages.
Structure and Appearance.
Layout.
Simple Formatting.
Font Properties.
Backgrounds.
Links.
Lists.
Using CSS.
Displaying and Editing Rules.
Creating CSS Rules.
CSS and Layout.
Page Content.
Images.
Flash Movies and Video.
Tables.
Forms.
JavaScript.
Behaviours.
The Spry Framework.
Sites.
Local and Remote Sites.
Assets and Templates.
Templates.
8 Shared Concepts.
Colour.
Colour Models and Modes.
Picking Colours.
Gradients.
Typographic Controls.
Entering Type.
Formatting Type.
Bézier Curves.
Web Graphics.
Web Image Files.
Optimizing for the Web.
Index.