Digital Media Tools

Digital Media Tools

by Dr . Nigel Chapman (Author), JennyChapman (Author)

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 550
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 04 Dec 2001

ISBN 10: 0471492779
ISBN 13: 9780471492771

Media Reviews
Recommended if you want to get up to speed with the tools of the Web-building trade. (.net, April 2002)
Author Bio
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.