Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1st Edition (1993)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 2nd Edition (1994)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 3rd Edition (1996)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 4th Edition (1998)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 5th Edition (2001)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 6th Edition (2003) Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 7th Edition (2007)
Learn the fundamental concepts and essential skills required for a successful career in multimedia from this bestselling guide. Multimedia: Making It Work, Seventh Edition shows you how to use text, images, sound, and video to deliver compelling messages and content in meaningful ways. You will learn to design, organize, and produce multimedia projects such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and professional web sites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects.
Inside this book, you will learn how to:
Master the building blocks of multimedia, including text, images, audio, video, and animation
Record, process, and edit digital audio
Work with bitmap, vector, and 3-D images
Create vivid computer animations
Shoot and edit digital video
Select the best hardware, software, and authoring tools for your needs
Design dynamic Web content
Determine the scope and cost of a multimedia project
Acquire the appropriate content and best talent
Prepare and deliver a professional multimedia project
Each chapter includes:
Learning objectives
Full-color illustrations
Helpful notes, tips, and warnings
Chapter summaries and key term lists
End-of-chapter quizzes and lab projects
Table of contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 What is Multimedia?
2 Introduction to Making Multimedia
3 Multimedia Skills
4 Text
5 Sound 96
6 Images
7 Animation
8 Video
9 Hardware
10 Basic Software Tools
11 Multimedia Authoring Tools
12 The Internet and How It Works
13 Tools for the World Wide Web
14 Designing for the World Wide Web
15 Planning and Costing
16 Designing and Producing
17 Content and Talent
18 Delivering
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Biographical note
Tay Vaughan has developed and produced award-winning projects for clients such as Apple, Microsoft, Lotus, Novell, and Sun. He is president of Timestream, a multiformat CD-ROM and Internet design and publishing company.
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Thoroughly Updated for the Latest Advances in Multimedia Learn the fundamental concepts and essential skills required for a successful career in multimedia from this bestselling guide. Multimedia: Making It Work, Seventh Edition shows you how to use text, images, sound, and video to deliver compelling messages and content in meaningful ways. You will learn to design, organize, and produce multimedia projects such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and professional web sites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects.Inside this book, you will learn how to:Master the building blocks of multimedia, including text, images, audio, video, and animationRecord, process, and edit digital audioWork with bitmap, vector, and 3-D imagesCreate vivid computer animations Shoot and edit digital videoSelect the best hardware, software, and authoring tools for your needsDesign dynamic Web contentDetermine the scope and cost of a multimedia projectAcquire the appropriate content and best talentPrepare and deliver a professional multimedia projectEach chapter includes:Learning objectives Full-color illustrations Helpful notes, tips, and warnings Chapter summaries and key term lists End-of-chapter quizzes and lab projects