Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 480 pages
- Published by: Sams May 23, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0672323125
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0672323126
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Product Description
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 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.
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A quick and practical introduction to LiveMotion, Adobe's object-oriented design tool for creating Web graphics and animation. New edition will further improve the book's easy-to-read, approachable style. Molly Holzschlag is well-known in the Web design community and has been involved with LiveMotion since its earliest alpha stages. New version of LiveMotion, expected in the first quarter of 2002, includes new scripting capabilities and improved integration with other Adobe products 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 first 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. Molly E. Holzschlag is an author, instructor, and designer who brings her irrepressible enthusiasm for Web design to books, classrooms, and Web sites. In addition to the numerous books she has authored, she writes the popular monthly column, "Integrated Design," for Web Techniques magazine. She is also the author of XML, HTML, XHTML Magic, 0735711399, $34.99, New Riders, 09/2001 and Special Edition Using HTML 4, Sixth Edition, 0789722674, $39.99, Que, 12/1999.
Reader ReviewsPrinted books are expensive to make, so it makes sense to use that investment wisely, something the publishers should have made Ms Holzschlag aware of. Instead, the book wastes a good deal of the reader's (and owner's) time by going into excruciating detail on some of the most elementary aspects of using any program: how to move an object by dragging it; how to change its orientation by dragging it; how to change its size, by dragging a handle. This, and much of the first six (that is, a quarter of the book) chapters take the reader on a journey of boredom that could easily have been covered in less than one chapter. That this seems to be "padding" or stretching the length of a work by including unnecessary detail is all too aparent, and the book's lack of popularity is well-deserved. I am so glad I got mine second-hand. Things pick up marginally thereafter, but it isn't until halfway through the book that things get really interesting and useful, but by then, there's not much space left for the information. Sams have produced some very good works over the years, but this isn't one of them. By all means, obtain a copy to kick-start you through learning LiveMotion, but search the web and visit the user forums to obtain the fuel you'll need to complete the journey.
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