Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • About this Book
  • Important Multimedia Skills
  • Effective Learning Tools
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Is Multimedia?
  • Definitions
  • Where to Use Multimedia
  • Multimedia in Business
  • Multimedia in Schools
  • Multimedia at Home
  • Multimedia in Public Places
  • Virtual Reality
  • Delivering Multimedia
  • CD-ROM, DVD, Flash Drives
  • The Broadband Internet
  • 2. Text
  • The Power of Meaning
  • The Power and Irregularity of English
  • About Fonts and Faces
  • Cases
  • Serif vs. Sans Serif
  • Using Text in Multimedia
  • Designing with Text
  • Fields for Reading
  • HTML Documents
  • Computers and Text
  • The Font Wars Are Over
  • Character Sets and Alphabets
  • Mapping Text Across Platforms
  • Languages in the World of Computers
  • Font Editing and Design Tools
  • Fontographer
  • Making Pretty Text
  • Hypermedia and Hypertext
  • The Power of Hypertext
  • Using Hypertext
  • Searching for Words
  • Hypermedia Structures
  • Hypertext Tools
  • 3. Images
  • Before You Start to Create
  • Plan Your Approach
  • Organize Your Tools
  • Configure Your Computer Workspace
  • Making Still Images
  • Bitmaps
  • Vector Drawing
  • Vector-Drawn Objects vs. Bitmaps
  • 3-D Drawing and Rendering
  • Color
  • Understanding Natural Light and Color
  • Computerized Color
  • Color Palettes
  • Image File Formats
  • Image File Compression
  • 4. Sound
  • The Power of Sound
  • Digital Audio
  • Making Digital Audio Files
  • Editing Digital Recordings
  • MIDI Audio
  • MIDI vs. Digital Audio
  • Multimedia System Sounds
  • Audio File Formats
  • Vaughan's Law of Multimedia Minimums
  • Adding Sound to Your Multimedia Project
  • Space Considerations
  • Audio Recording
  • Keeping Track of Your Sounds
  • Audio CDs
  • Sound for Your Mobile Phone
  • Sound for the Internet
  • Testing and Evaluation
  • Copyright Issues
  • 5. Animation
  • The Power of Motion
  • Principles of Animation
  • Animation by Computer
  • Animation Techniques
  • Animation File Formats
  • Motion with SVG in HTML5
  • Making Animations That Work
  • A Rolling Ball
  • A Bouncing Ball
  • Creating an Animated Scene
  • 6. Video
  • Using Video
  • How Video Works and Is Displayed
  • Analog Video
  • Digital Video
  • Displays
  • Digital Video Containers
  • Codecs
  • Video Format Converters
  • Obtaining Video Clips
  • Shooting and Editing Video
  • Camcorders
  • Smartphones and Tablets
  • Storyboarding
  • Lighting
  • Chroma Keys
  • Composition
  • Titles and Text
  • Nonlinear Editing (NLE)
  • 7. Making Multimedia
  • The Stages of a Multimedia Project
  • What You Need: The Intangibles
  • Creativity
  • Organization
  • Communication
  • What You Need: Multimedia Skills
  • The Team
  • The Sum of Parts
  • What You Need: Hardware
  • Windows vs. Macintosh
  • Connections
  • Memory and Storage Devices
  • Input Devices
  • Output Devices
  • What You Need: Software