Digital media tools

Title:

Digital media tools

Personal Author:

Chapman, Nigel

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2003

ISBN:

9780470857489

Subject Term:

Multimedia systems

Added Author:

Chapman, Jenny

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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 animation and sound. It enables the students to learn through doing as well as to understand the basics of design and integration in a multimedia environment. This edition is revised to include up-to-date material on multimedia advances since the publication of the first edition, making it the most up to date guide on the market.
* Fully revised to cover multimedia advances since the publication of the first edition
* Each section focuses on an industry-leading application including Flash, Photoshop, Director, ImageReady, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver
* Readers will acquire a basic fluency with these tools, learn what they do best and what their limitations are
* Offers basic tutorials on the practical preparation of illustrations and still images, video animation, and sound

Author Notes

Nigel Chapman, Writer and technical consultant, MacAvon Media Productions, Highlands, Scotland

Jenny Chapman, Artist-filmmaker, Edinburgh College of Art and MacAvon Media Productions, Highlands, Scotland

Preface	p. xiii
Note on the 2nd Edition	p. xvii
1 Introduction	p. 1
2 Common Features	p. 7
Menus and Commands	p. 8
File Menu	p. 8
Edit Menu	p. 12
Help Menu	p. 13
Keyboard Shortcuts	p. 17
Context Menus	p. 18
Tools, Toolboxes and Object Palettes	p. 19
Selecting Tools	p. 19
Objects	p. 21
Tabbed Palettes	p. 22
Palette Controls	p. 25
The Options Bar and Palette Well	p. 26
History and Automation	p. 28
History Palettes	p. 29
Automating Repetitive Tasks	p. 32
Layers	p. 36
Zooming and Navigator Palettes	p. 41
Integration	p. 43
Customizing	p. 46
2a Macromedia MX Interface Elements	p. 49
The Property Inspector	p. 49
Dockable Panels	p. 53
The Answers Panel	p. 55
3 Photoshop: Bitmapped Images	p. 59
Fundamentals	p. 62
Opening and Importing Images	p. 62
Resolution	p. 66
Modes and Colour Spaces	p. 71
Layers	p. 72
Painting Pixels	p. 79
The Painting Tools	p. 79
Erasing	p. 84
Fills	p. 85
Type	p. 90
Selection and Allied Operations	p. 92
Marquee Selection and Cropping	p. 93
Lasso Selections	p. 95
Paths	p. 97
Combining and Transforming Selections	p. 99
Extracting Objects	p. 101
Selecting By Colour	p. 105
Masks	p. 108
Adjustments and Retouching	p. 114
Tonal Adjustments	p. 116
Colour Adjustments	p. 121
Retouching By Hand	p. 126
Effects and Filters	p. 128
Blurring and Sharpening	p. 130
Special Effects and Distortion	p. 133
Layer Effects and Layer Styles	p. 137
3a Photoshop 7	p. 145
Interface Enhancements	p. 146
The File Browser	p. 146
Workspaces	p. 148
Tool Presets	p. 149
Patterns	p. 150
Brushes	p. 156
The Paintbrush and Pencil	p. 156
The Brushes Palette	p. 159
4 ImageReady: Web Graphics	p. 167
Image Optimization	p. 170
Image Slicing	p. 171
Slices	p. 171
Creating Slices	p. 174
Image Maps	p. 180
Rollovers	p. 183
Instant Rollovers	p. 184
More Elaborate Rollover Effects	p. 188
Animation	p. 192
Frame-at-a-Time Animation	p. 193
Animating Layer Properties	p. 195
Animated Rollovers	p. 199
5 Flash: Animation with Interactivity	p. 205
Basic Concepts	p. 208
Drawing	p. 212
Lines and Shapes	p. 213
Stroke and Fill	p. 214
Shapes and Brushes	p. 217
Selection	p. 218
Transformations and Reshaping	p. 221
Importing Artwork and Manipulating Images	p. 225
Animation	p. 229
Animating One Frame at a Time	p. 230
Motion Tweening	p. 233
Symbols and Instances	p. 236
Shape Tweening	p. 239
Sound	p. 242
Actions	p. 247
Buttons	p. 248
Button Actions	p. 250
Frame Actions	p. 255
Actions and Movie Clip Symbols	p. 260
Actions, Browsers and Networks	p. 264
Beyond the Basic Actions	p. 267
5a Flash MX	p. 275
Interface Elements	p. 276
Panels	p. 276
Tools	p. 279
Layer Folders	p. 282
Accessibility	p. 283
Video	p. 286
Components	p. 289
User Interface Components	p. 290
Changing The Appearance of Components	p. 295
6 Illustrator: Vector Graphics	p. 299
Drawing	p. 302
Stroke and Fill	p. 303
Shape Tools	p. 306
Freeform Drawing	p. 309
Manipulating Objects	p. 314
Selection	p. 314
Transforming Objects	p. 317
Reshaping	p. 322
Appearance	p. 324
Complex Fills and Strokes	p. 324
Effects, Filters and Styles	p. 330
Drawing Aids	p. 335
Grids, Guides and Alignment	p. 336
Layers	p. 340
Type	p. 342
Bitmaps	p. 346
Importing Bitmaps	p. 346
Converting Bitmaps to Vectors	p. 348
Web Graphics	p. 350
6a Illustrator 10	p. 359
Minor Enhancements and Additions	p. 360
New Drawing Tools	p. 360
Selection Enhancements	p. 364
Warping and Distortion	p. 367
Image Slicing	p. 372
Symbols	p. 374
Symbols and Instances	p. 374
Symbol Sets and the Symbolism Tools	p. 377
Data-Driven Graphics	p. 379
Variables, Data Sets and Templates	p. 379
More Elaborate Data-Driven Graphics	p. 383
7 Dreamweaver: Web Sites	p. 385
Web Pages and Sites	p. 387
Formatting Web Pages	p. 389
HTML Formatting	p. 390
CSS Typography	p. 394
Flash Text	p. 398
Images and Other Embedded Objects	p. 399
Links	p. 402
Page Properties and Head Elements	p. 404
Forms	p. 408
Tables	p. 410
Page Layout	p. 412
Layers	p. 413
Layout View	p. 416
Frames	p. 419
Dynamic HTML	p. 422
Rollovers and Navigation Bars	p. 422
Behaviours	p. 426
Timelines	p. 433
Editing HTML Code	p. 436
Sites	p. 441
The Site Window	p. 443
Site Checking	p. 448
Libraries and Templates	p. 450
Search and Replace	p. 453
Beyond Dreamweaver	p. 454
7a Dreamweaver MX	p. 459
Interface Elements	p. 461
New Documents and Sites	p. 462
The New Document Dialogue	p. 462
The Site Definition Wizard	p. 467
Editing Code	p. 468
8 Premiere: Video and Audio	p. 471
Fundamentals	p. 474
An Introduction to Video Compression	p. 475
QuickTime	p. 477
Projects	p. 478
Capturing and Importing Video	p. 479
Using the Capture Window	p. 480
Capturing Audio with Video	p. 486
Stop-Motion Capture	p. 487
Importing Video Clips and Images	p. 488
Editing	p. 490
Trimming	p. 491
Assembling Clips	p. 492
Previewing	p. 496
Editing Clips on the Timeline	p. 498
Transitions	p. 502
Markers	p. 508
Titles	p. 510
Compositing and Effects	p. 514
Keying	p. 516
Mattes	p. 520
Animating Clips	p. 524
Effects	p. 526
After Effects	p. 531
Sound	p. 532
Capturing and Importing Sound	p. 532
Processing Sound in the Timeline	p. 537
The Audio Mixer	p. 540
Applying Audio Effects	p. 543
Exporting Movies	p. 547
Video Formats	p. 548
Exporting Movies with Cleaner EZ	p. 549
9 Colour, Typography & Bezier Curves	p. 559
Colour	p. 559
A Little Colour Theory	p. 560
Picking Colours	p. 562
Typographic Controls	p. 566
Character Formatting	p. 569
Paragraph Formatting	p. 571
Bezier Curves	p. 573
10 Optimizing Images for the Web	p. 581
Web Image Files	p. 581
Indexed Colour	p. 582
File Formats	p. 585
Optimizing for the Web	p. 589
Optimization Settings	p. 592
GIF and PNG Settings	p. 594
JPEG Settings	p. 597
Minor Features	p. 599
Weighted Optimization	p. 599
Editing the Palette	p. 601
Saving the Optimized File	p. 602
Projects	p. 605
Index	p. 615

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