Digital Media Tools

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Digital Media Tools is a clearly focussed introduction to the major software tools used for creating digital graphics, multimedia and Web pages. There are substantial chapters on each of the industry-leading applications such as Photoshop or Flash, plus an introductory chapter on the common interface elements. Readers will acquire a basic fluency with these important tools, learn what they do best and what their limitations are. The book is lavishly illustrated throughout, and files are provided on the supporting web site for students to work through all the major examples themselves. The approach is highly practical and founded in the authors’ extensive experience with these tools, but also supported by a thorough understanding and explanation of the technical and theoretical issues underpinning their use. Digital Media Tools is designed to be the perfect practical companion text to the authors’ latest course Web Design: A Complete Introduction.This edition brings this very successful book up to date and provides information on the latest versions of Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and Dreamweaver, along with new coverage of Bridge. This 3rd edition introduces a wide range of new teaching and learning features both in the book itself and on the new supporting Web site www.digitalmediatools.org

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-10-26
Mått189 x 231 x 33 mm
Vikt964 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor544
Upplaga3
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470012277

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Nigel and Jenny Chapman are internationally well-known authors of major text books on new media technologies, computing and Web design. Nigel Chapman was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at University College London until he became a full-time freelance writer and Web developer.Jenny Chapman is an award-winning animation and video artist, Web designer and visiting Lecturer in new media animation at Edinburgh College of Art.

Welcome xiiiTeaching and Learning Features xvSupporting Web Site xv1 Introduction 1Safe Working with Digital Media Tools 62 Interface Basics 9Platforms 11Menus and Commands 13File Menu 13Edit Menu 15Help Menu 17Keyboard Shortcuts 20Context Menus 21Panels 23Panel Groups and Docks 24Workspaces 27Panel Controls 27Common Panels 29Tools Panel 29Options Bar, Control and Properties Panels 30Layers Panel 32Navigator Panel 35History Panel 38Automating Repetitive Tasks 42Replaying History 42Actions 43Layout Aids 46Rulers and Grids 46Guides 483 Bridge 51The Browser Window 52The Default View 53Other Workspaces 55Rotating 58Slide Shows 58Compact Mode 59Stacks 60Navigation and File Operations 62Navigation 62File and Folder Operations 63Interacting with Other Programs 64File Organization 65Ratings, Labels and Keywords 65Metadata 67Filtering and Sorting 68Retrieval 704 Photoshop 73Fundamentals 75Opening and Importing Images 75Saving and Exporting 77Resolution 81Modes and Colour Spaces 87Creating Images 89Layers 91Making and Using Selections 102Marquee Selection and Cropping 103Lasso Selections 106Selecting by Colour 107Paths 111Combining and Transforming Selections 112Selecting and Extracting Objects 115Masks 118Adjustments and Retouching 124Tonal Adjustments 125Colour Adjustments 133Retouching by Hand 142Effects and Filters 146Smart Filters 149Blurring and Sharpening 151Artistic Filters and Distortion 156Layer Effects and Layer Styles 157Vanishing Point 159Painting Pixels 163The Paintbrush and Pencil 163The Brushes Panel 167Selecting with Brushes 170Erasing 171Fills 173Animation 179Animated GIFs 179The Animation Panel 180Animating Layer Properties 1855 Illustrator 191Fundamentals 193Vector Graphics 193Creating Documents 194Technical Drawing 195Stroke and Fill 197Shape Tools 199Freehand Drawing 206Manipulating Objects 211Selection 211Transforming Objects 213Reshaping 218Appearance 222Complex Fills and Strokes 223Live Paint 226Effects, Filters and Styles 2293D Effects 235Warping 240The Appearance Panel 241Symbols 245Symbols and Instances 245Symbol Sets and the Symbolism Tools 248Symbols and 3D 250Bitmaps 252Combining Bitmaps and Vector Art 252Importing Bitmaps 255Manipulating Bitmapped Images 257Live Trace 258Shared Features 262Selection 262Colour 264Drawing Aids 270Layers 274Type 276Web Graphics 2806 Flash 287Basic Concepts 289Documents and Movies 289The Stage and the Timeline 292Artwork 295Drawing 296Selection 302Transformations and Reshaping 305Graphic Symbols 308Importing Artwork 311Animation 316Animating One Frame at a Time 316Motion Tweening 319Editing Animations 329Animated Symbols 335Shape Tweening 340Sound and Video 345Sound 345Video 3487 Dreamweaver 357Fundamentals 359Web Pages and Sites 359User Interface 361Preferences 370Formatting Web Pages 372Structure and Appearance 372Layout 373Simple Formatting 376Font Properties 379Backgrounds 384Links 387Lists 389Using CSS 391Displaying and Editing Rules 392Creating CSS Rules 396CSS and Layout 402Page Content 408Images 408Flash Movies and Video 417Tables 420Forms 422JavaScript 426Behaviours 426The Spry Framework 430Sites 440Local and Remote Sites 440Assets and Templates 448Templates 4508 Shared Concepts 455Colour 456Colour Models and Modes 456Picking Colours 460Gradients 467Typographic Controls 472Entering Type 472Formatting Type 473Bézier Curves 481Web Graphics 488Web Image Files 488Optimizing for the Web 491Index 505