Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Livemotion 2 in 24

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.

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.

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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