Sams Teach Yourself Adobe LiveMotion 2 in 24 Hours (Paperback)

LiveMotion is Adobes 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 Hours offers 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

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. CREATING LIVEMOTION OBJECTS.

Hour 1. Creating Simple Objects.
Hour 2. Importing Photos and Artwork as Objects.
Hour 3. Setting Type with LiveMotion.

II. MODIFYING OBJECTS.

Hour 4. Combining, Grouping, and Editing Objects.
Hour 5. Selecting and Transforming Objects.
Hour 6. Working with Object Layers.

III. COLOR, SHAPE, AND STYLE.

Hour 7. Using LiveMotion's Color Tools.
Hour 8. Working with the Library Palette.
Hour 9. Applying LiveMotion Styles.
Hour 10. Textures, Gradients, Distortion, and Effects.
Hour 11. Matting and Masks.

IV. CREATING IMAGES FOR THE WEB.

Hour 12. Designing Static Web Graphics.
Hour 13. Image Mapping and Rollover Techniques.
Hour 14. Creating Remote Rollovers.

V. FLASH SWF ANIMATION AND MULTIMEDIA.

Hour 15. Exploring the Timeline.
Hour 16. Designing Animations.
Hour 17. Working with Movie Clips.
Hour 18. Adding LiveMotion Audio.
Hour 19. Creating a Multimedia Presentation.

VI. DESIGNING AND OPTIMIZING ADVANCED WEB PRESENTATIONS.

Hour 20. Professional Applications of LiveMotion.
Hour 21. Optimizing and Exporting LiveMotion Files.

VII. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES: SCRIPTING.

Hour 22. Scripting and LiveMotion.
Hour 23. Adding Scripts.
Hour 24. Scripting Project.
Appendix A. Learning LiveMotion Features.
Appendix B. Setting Preferences and Working with the Composition Area.
Appendix C. Understanding Web Graphics.