Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Livemotion 2 in 24 Hours

by Holzschlag, Molly E.

• ISBN13: 9780672323126
• ISBN10: 0672323125
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-13
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

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