Résumé
Contents
Introduction xxiii
Chapter 1 LiveMotion’s Mojo Methodology 1
What’s the Deal with Objects? 2
Everything’s an Object 2
Objects with Layers, Not Layers with Objects 4
Working with Shapes 4
Creating Basic Shapes and Lines 4
Combine Shapes 5
Building Shapes with Combine 8
Project: Building a Yin-Yang Orb 9
Project: Creating Rounded Tabs 10
Importing Shapes 11
Alignment 13
Project: Building a Simple Button Bar 13
Working with Text 14
Project: Adding Text to the Button Bar 14
Aligning Text: A Caveat 15
Project: Aligning the Button Bar Text 16
Working with Layers 16
Creating Drop Shadows with Layers 17
Project: Adding a Drop Shadow to the Button Bar 17
Creating Glow Effects with Layers 18
Creating Outline Effects with Layers 19
Working with Color and Gradients 21
Color 21
Gradients 22
Project: Experimenting with Gradients and File Size 23
Color Schemes 26
The Pen Tool 27
Pen Tool Basics 27
Pen Tool Tips 28
Chapter 2 3D Effects, Textures, and Backgrounds 31
Making It Pop 32
Creating 3D Effects with LiveMotion 32
Cutout and Look Through 32
Pressing Embosses 34
Carving Bevels 35
Ripples in the Pond 36
Lighting 3D Effects 37
Project: Combining 3D Effects 38
Working with Textures 40
Achieving Seamlessness 40
Project: Creating Simple Seamless Tiles 42
Background Basics 43
Simple Background Colors 43
Building Backgrounds 44
Vertically Striped Backgrounds 45
Solid Colors 45
Project: Keep It Simple: Two-Color Backgrounds 46
Project: A Step Up: Three-Color Backgrounds 47
3D Stripes 48
Project: Building 3D Stripes: The Automatic Way 48
Project: Building Textured Stripes 50
Fading Stripes 53
Curving Edges 54
Horizontally Striped Backgrounds 55
Solid Colors 55
Project: Creating a Horizontally Striped Background 55
Project: Creating Pattern-Edged Stripes 57
Deckle-Edged Stripes 58
Full-Page Backgrounds 58
Background Bits 59
Transparency and Backgrounds 59
The Background Offset Dilemma 60
Backgrounds for Framed Sites 60
Chapter 3 Alpha, Style, and Image Magic 63
So Cool, so Fast 64
Working with Alpha Channel Image Mattes 64
Style Basics 66
Creating Styles 67
Altering Styles 67
Deleting Styles 68
Managing Styles 68
Thin and Organize 68
Passing Styles 69
Distort, Adjust, and Opacity Palette Fun 69
Using Distortion Effects 69
Adjust 76
Opacity 78
Working with Photoshop Plug-in Filters 79
The Style Depot 80
Black Leather Emboss 80
Blue Lizard 81
Bubble Traction 82
Button Tuck 83
Crackle Rock 83
Electric Spiders 84
Liquid Metal 85
Purple Circuits 86
Purple Ghost 86
Soft Granite 87
Chapter 4 Rollover, Sit Up, and Bark 89
It’s a Very Good Dog 90
How Rollovers Work 90
Rollover States 91
Differences between JavaScript and Flash Rollovers 92
Basic vs. Remote Rollovers 92
Creating Basic JavaScript Rollovers 92
Project: Create a Simple Rollover 93
Some Things to Watch Out For 94
More Intricate Rollovers 95
Where It All Goes 95
Creating Remote Rollovers 101
Project: Building a Remote Rollover 102
Build the Primary Rollovers 103
Build the Remote Rollovers 104
Target the Remote Rollover States 105
Rollover Depot 106
Project: Basic Rollover Designs 106
Dim Bulb 106
A Glow About You 109
Get Depressed 110
On The Side, Please 112
A Change Of Face 114
El Rancho Indebto Pop Up 115
Take It For A Spin 117
Swing That Hammer 118
Indicator Lights 120
Exclaim! 124
Chapter 5 It Slices, It Dices, It Builds HTML Layouts 127
It Doesn’t Peel Potatoes 128
Export and Slicing Methods 128
Why Use Entire Composition? 128
Why Use Trimmed Composition? 129
Why Use AutoSlice? 131
Why Use AutoLayout? 131
Export Format Tweaks and Techniques 133
GIF Techniques 134
JPEG Techniques 135
Per-Object Compression: Mixing GIFs and JPEGs 136
Building Full-Page Layouts 137
Creating Structure 138
Using Space 139
The HTML Text Tool 140
Effective Slicing 140
Project: Try a Slice 142
Cooking Up a Batch 142
Batch Basics 143
You’ve Got the Look 144
Maintain Alignment (or Not) 144
Making a List, Checking It Twice 145
Project: Sit Back and Let LiveMotion Go to Work 146
Making Adjustments 148
The Batch Button Depot 149
Simple Rectangle Buttons 149
Outlined Rectangle Buttons 150
Drop-Shadowed Text Buttons 150
Beveled Buttons 150
Embossed Buttons 151
Cutout Buttons 151
Thin-Rule Buttons 151
Gradient Buttons 152
Fast Metallic Buttons 152
Jaggy Buttons 153
Firecracker Buttons 153
Cigarband Buttons 154
Doodle Buttons 154
Stupid Batch Tricks 155
Comment Your Source 155
Easy Horizontal Button Bars 155
Batch Headings with a Kiss 155
Plain Old Text Works, Too 155
Image Maps 155
Project: Creating the Image Map 156
Chapter 6 LiveMotion Animation Basics 159
Meet the Timeline 160
The Timeline Interface 160
Adding an Object 161
Setting a Keyframe 162
Setting Additional Keyframes 163
Moving between Keyframes 163
Project: The Bouncing Ball–Animating Position, Size, and… 164
Creating GIF Animation 166
Planning GIF Animations 167
Exporting GIF Animations 167
Project: Creating an Animated GIF Banner 168
GIF Banner Ad Pointers 170
More with Less 171
Ad Banner and Button Sizes 171
Easy on the Cheese 171
Nested Animation–Time Independent Groups 172
Creating a Nested Animation 172
Editing a Nested Animation 172
Looping a Nested Animation 173
Project: Creating a Swimming Fish (Using a Time
Independent Group) 173
Drawing the Fish 173
Animate the Fish Eye 175
Create a Motion Path for the Entire Group 175
Chapter 7 SWF Animation Basics 177
Why Flash? 178
Justifying Flash 178
Adoption Rate 178
Delivering the Difference 179
Common Animation Techniques 179
Scaling Techniques 180
Project: Animating Scale 181
Opacity Techniques 181
Project: Animating Opacity 182
Rotation Techniques 183
Project: Animating Rotation 183
Skew Techniques 185
Project: Using the Leanslide Styles 186
Advanced Animation Techniques 187
Broken Text Techniques 187
Project: Creating Individually Animated Characters 188
Mask Techniques 190
Project: Creating Masked Spotlight Animation 190
Keyframe Modifiers 193
Controlling Sound 193
Importing Sound 194
Pan and Volume 194
Event Sound or Solo Event Sound? 195
Flash Export Settings 195
Image Compression with File Format Export Settings 195
Frame Rates 196
Sound Export Settings 196
Working with the Export Report 197
Download Streaming 197
Resources 197
File Smashing and Staging 197
Chapter 8 Behaviors 201
Oh, Behave! 202
What Is a Behavior? 202
Attaching Behaviors 203
Timeline Behaviors 203
Object Behaviors 204
Which One When? 204
Choosing Behaviors 204
Project: Start and Stop 204
The Details 206
On the Left 206
On the Right 207
It Goes Up to 11 207
Stop 208
Play 208
Project: Creating a Play Button 208
Change State 210
Go To Relative Time 211
Project: "Now for Our Place Sequence Slide Show" 211
Label 213
Go To Label 213
Project: Make a Reset Button 214
Go To URL 214
Project: Putting the Go To URL to Work 215
Run JavaScript 216
Project: Alert! 217
Load Movie 217
Project: Propeller Head 218
Unload Movie 219
Project: Please Stop! 219
Wait For Download 220
Project: Using a Preloader 220
Stop All Sounds 221
Combining Multiple Behaviors 221
Project: Repeating Button 221
Project: Jumping in the Timeline 223
Chapter 9 Flash, Splash, and Burn 225
The Message (Not the Medium) Is the Message 226
Learn from Their Mistakes 226
Knock Knock…Anybody Home (Page)? 226
Is This a Tunnel to Nowhere? 228
How About a Choice? 228
Is That an Elephant Coming Down the Pipe? 228
Do I Have to Listen to That Annoying Music? 230
Building Manageable Files 231
Stage Downloads 231
Deal with Bitmaps (or Not) 232
Use Smart Symbols 233
Project: Export Magic 233
Get Ranked or Get Lost 235
Lay the Spider Bait 236
Internal Search Engines 236
Preloader Depot 236
Three Arrows Down 236
Storm Watch 237
Red Dot Dance 237
Ratchet Scope 237
Digital Square Dance 238
Purple Pager 238
Island Radio 239
Simple Text Track 239
Burst Gradient Wipe 240
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 240
Chapter 10 SWF Navigation 241
Taking It to the Next Level 242
All SWF or SWF and HTML? 242
Drop-Down Menus 242
Project: Drop (Down) and Give Me Twenty 243
Slide Out Consoles 249
Project: Building a Sliding Console 249
Layering Content with Load Movie 252
Animated Styles 254
Project: Animated Style Depot 254
Chapter 11 Working with Other Apps 257
Exact Change Only 258
Edit Original 259
Placing Photoshop and Illustrator Files 260
Commence Sequence 260
Placing a Sequence of Files 261
Placing GIF Animations 262
Working with the Web Page Editors 262
Appendix A Image Mattes and Shapes 265
Appendix B Seamless Textures 279
Index 295
L'auteur - Daniel Gray
Daniel Gray is the author of a score of books on graphics and the Internet, with a focus on the forefront of the digital arts. Writing for a worldwide audience, Daniel's works have been translated into ten languages. His earlier works include The Photoshop Plug-ins Book, and Sybex's The Art of Cartooning with Flash (co-author).
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Coriolis |
| Auteur(s) | Daniel Gray |
| Parution | 15/08/2000 |
| Nb. de pages | 306 |
| Format | 20,5 x 25,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 1007g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9781576106761 |
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