Digital Media Tools
Published on 4. December 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
546 pages
978-0-471-49277-1 (ISBN)
Description
A practical guide to the industry-leading multi-media authoring tools Creating multimedia presentations requires an understanding of how to manipulate media such as graphics, video, or text, and how to bring them together using a variety of complex software tools. This book offers a clearly focused introduction to the most popular applications used for multimedia authoring, including Photoshop, Premier, and Flash. With an emphasis on multimedia authoring for the Web, the authors provide step-by-step tutorials on how to use these software tools to prepare illustrations, still images, video animation, and sound. Readers will acquire a basic fluency with these tools, discover what they do best and what are their limitations, and learn how they compare with other commonly used software tools.
Reviews / Votes
"Recommended if you want to get up to speed with the tools of the Web-building trade." (.net, April 2002)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 19 cm
Weight
1025 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-49277-1 (9780471492771)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
08/2003
2nd Edition
Wiley
€49.90
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Persons
NIGEL CHAPMAN is a well--known author of books on new media technologies and programming languages. A graduate of Cambridge University with a PhD in Computational Science, Nigel lectured in Computer Science at University College London until he left to become a freelance writer, researcher and consultant. He also finds time to teach Web animation technologies at Edinburgh College of Art. JENNY CHAPMAN is an award--winning new media, animation and video artist, and a Lecturer in new media animation at Edinburgh College of Art. Her experimental animation work has been shown in festivals around the world. Author and co--author of several books on digital media and web animation, she has two degrees in Visual Communication and another in Philosophy and Art History.
Content
Preface. Introduction. Commmon Features. Photoshop: Bitmapped Images. ImageReady: Web Graphics. Flash: Animation with Interactivity. Illustrator: Vector Graphics. Dreamweaver: Web Sites. Premiere: Video and Audio. Colour, Typography & Bezier Curves. Optimizing Images for the Web. Projects. Index.