Digital Media Tools - Softcover

Chapman, Nigel; Chapman, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471492779 ISBN 13: 9780471492771

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Digital Media Tools is a clearly focused introduction to acquiring skills in the use of major software tools to create multimedia. It will help you in the practical preparation of illustrations and still images, video animation and sound as well as multimedia authoring for the Web. With the benefit of these experts coaching you, as you turn your hand to the exercises and get plenty of practice, you will acquire a mastery of the tools. You will learn what they do best and what their limitations are. Movies on the CD-ROM provide step-by-step demonstrations of application functions and the accompanyintg website has supplementary chapters covering some other popular tools such as Fireworks and GoLive Table of Contents: Introduction Common Features Bitmapped Images: Photoshop Web Graphics: ImageReady Animation with Interactivity: Flash Vector Graphics: Illustrator Web Sites: Dreamweaver Video and Audio: Premiere Colour; Typography; Bezier Curves Optimizing Images for the WWW Projects Visit Nigel and Jenny Chapman's exciting new experimental Flash website

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471492779
• ISBN 13: 9780471492771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 546