Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Livemotion 2 in 24 Hours

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Pub. Date: 2002-05-13
Publisher(s): Sams Publishing
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Summary

LiveMotion is Adobe¿s premiere Web graphics and animation design tool. It allows designers to work with vector and raster graphics in an easy-to-use environment, with an interface that is designed to be both intuitive and familiar to those who use other Adobe products.A new version of LiveMotion is expected to be released in the 1st quarter of 2002. It includes powerful new scripting capabilities, using the industry standard, JavaScript. And it has greatly improved integration with other Adobe products like GoLive, Photoshop, and Illustrator.Sams Teach Yourself Adobe LiveMotion X in 24 Hoursoffers a clearly written, approachable tutorial that carefully steps the reader through the basics of creating Web graphics and animations with LiveMotion. The book has been thoroughly reorganized and revised to better cover all the most important features of LiveMotion.

Author Biography

Coined "one of the greatest digerati" and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web, Molly E. Holzschlag leaves little doubt that in the world of Web design and development, she is one of the most vibrant and influential people around. With more than 20 Web development book titles to her credit, Molly is also a popular columnist and feature writer for such diverse publications as Macworld, PCMagazine, IBM developerWorks, WebReview.com, and Builder.com. She is an engaging speaker and teacher, appearing regularly at such conferences as Comdex, Internet World, CMP's WEB shows, and Web Builder.

As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. Currently, she is serving as the Associate Editor for Digital Web Magazine. Molly also acts as an advisory board committee member to numerouse organizations, including World Organization of Webmasters.

In more academic arenas, Molly teaches Webmaster courses at the University of Arizona, University of Phoenix, and Pima Community College. She wrote the very popular column "Integrated Design" for Web Techniques Magazine for the last three years of its publication, and she spent a year as Executive Editor for WebReview.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(2)
Part I Creating LiveMotion Objects 3(64)
Creating Simple Objects
5(22)
Importing Photos and Artwork as Objects
27(20)
Setting Type with LiveMotion
47(20)
Part II Modifying Objects 67(58)
Combining, Grouping, and Editing Objects
69(24)
Selecting and Transforming Objects
93(16)
Working with Object Layers
109(16)
Part III Color, Shape and Style 125(78)
Using LiveMotion's Color Tools
127(16)
Working with the Library Palette
143(16)
Applying LiveMotion Styles
159(16)
Textures, Gradients, Distortion, and Effects
175(14)
Matting and Masks
189(14)
Part IV Creating Images for the Web 203(42)
Designing Static Web Graphics
205(14)
Image Mapping and Rollover Techniques
219(14)
Creating Remote Rollovers
233(12)
Part V Flash SWF Animation and Multimedia 245(60)
Exploring the Timeline
247(12)
Designing Animations
259(10)
Working with Movie Clips
269(14)
Adding LiveMotion Audio
283(10)
Creating a Multimedia Presentation
293(12)
Part VI Designing and Optimizing Advanced Web Presentations 305(26)
Professional Applications of LiveMotion
307(12)
Optimizing and Exporting LiveMotion Files
319(12)
Part VII Advanced Techniques: Scripting 331(90)
Scripting and LiveMotion
333(12)
Adding Scripts
345(14)
Scripting Project
359(62)
Appendixes
A Learning LiveMotion Features
369(24)
B Setting Preferences and Working with the Composition Area
393(10)
C Understanding Web Graphics
403(18)
Index 421

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