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Digital Media Tools
Nigel Chapman (Author), Jenny Chapman (Author)
9780470012277, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 26 October 2007
544 pages
23.1 x 18.9 x 3.3 cm, 0.964 kg
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
Welcome xiii Teaching and Learning Features xv Supporting Web Site xv 1 Introduction 1 Safe Working with Digital Media Tools 6 2 Interface Basics 9 Platforms 11 Menus and Commands 13 File Menu 13 Edit Menu 15 Help Menu 17 Keyboard Shortcuts 20 Context Menus 21 Panels 23 Panel Groups and Docks 24 Workspaces 27 Panel Controls 27 Common Panels 29 Tools Panel 29 Options Bar, Control and Properties Panels 30 Layers Panel 32 Navigator Panel 35 History Panel 38 Automating Repetitive Tasks 42 Replaying History 42 Actions 43 Layout Aids 46 Rulers and Grids 46 Guides 48 3 Bridge 51 The Browser Window 52 The Default View 53 Other Workspaces 55 Rotating 58 Slide Shows 58 Compact Mode 59 Stacks 60 Navigation and File Operations 62 Navigation 62 File and Folder Operations 63 Interacting with Other Programs 64 File Organization 65 Ratings, Labels and Keywords 65 Metadata 67 Filtering and Sorting 68 Retrieval 70 4 Photoshop 73 Fundamentals 75 Opening and Importing Images 75 Saving and Exporting 77 Resolution 81 Modes and Colour Spaces 87 Creating Images 89 Layers 91 Making and Using Selections 102 Marquee Selection and Cropping 103 Lasso Selections 106 Selecting by Colour 107 Paths 111 Combining and Transforming Selections 112 Selecting and Extracting Objects 115 Masks 118 Adjustments and Retouching 124 Tonal Adjustments 125 Colour Adjustments 133 Retouching by Hand 142 Effects and Filters 146 Smart Filters 149 Blurring and Sharpening 151 Artistic Filters and Distortion 156 Layer Effects and Layer Styles 157 Vanishing Point 159 Painting Pixels 163 The Paintbrush and Pencil 163 The Brushes Panel 167 Selecting with Brushes 170 Erasing 171 Fills 173 Animation 179 Animated GIFs 179 The Animation Panel 180 Animating Layer Properties 185 5 Illustrator 191 Fundamentals 193 Vector Graphics 193 Creating Documents 194 Technical Drawing 195 Stroke and Fill 197 Shape Tools 199 Freehand Drawing 206 Manipulating Objects 211 Selection 211 Transforming Objects 213 Reshaping 218 Appearance 222 Complex Fills and Strokes 223 Live Paint 226 Effects, Filters and Styles 229 3D Effects 235 Warping 240 The Appearance Panel 241 Symbols 245 Symbols and Instances 245 Symbol Sets and the Symbolism Tools 248 Symbols and 3D 250 Bitmaps 252 Combining Bitmaps and Vector Art 252 Importing Bitmaps 255 Manipulating Bitmapped Images 257 Live Trace 258 Shared Features 262 Selection 262 Colour 264 Drawing Aids 270 Layers 274 Type 276 Web Graphics 280 6 Flash 287 Basic Concepts 289 Documents and Movies 289 The Stage and the Timeline 292 Artwork 295 Drawing 296 Selection 302 Transformations and Reshaping 305 Graphic Symbols 308 Importing Artwork 311 Animation 316 Animating One Frame at a Time 316 Motion Tweening 319 Editing Animations 329 Animated Symbols 335 Shape Tweening 340 Sound and Video 345 Sound 345 Video 348 7 Dreamweaver 357 Fundamentals 359 Web Pages and Sites 359 User Interface 361 Preferences 370 Formatting Web Pages 372 Structure and Appearance 372 Layout 373 Simple Formatting 376 Font Properties 379 Backgrounds 384 Links 387 Lists 389 Using CSS 391 Displaying and Editing Rules 392 Creating CSS Rules 396 CSS and Layout 402 Page Content 408 Images 408 Flash Movies and Video 417 Tables 420 Forms 422 JavaScript 426 Behaviours 426 The Spry Framework 430 Sites 440 Local and Remote Sites 440 Assets and Templates 448 Templates 450 8 Shared Concepts 455 Colour 456 Colour Models and Modes 456 Picking Colours 460 Gradients 467 Typographic Controls 472 Entering Type 472 Formatting Type 473 Bézier Curves 481 Web Graphics 488 Web Image Files 488 Optimizing for the Web 491 Index 505
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