Multimedia: Making It Work, Fifth Edition

Vaughan, Tay

ISBN 10: 0072190957 / ISBN 13: 9780072190953

Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill, U.S.A., 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multimedia: Making It Work, Fifth Edition
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072190957
• ISBN 13: 9780072190953
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Introduces multimedia platforms and projects; discusses text, audio, and still and moving images; and covers multimedia design, hardware, software, installation, packaging, color, video, CD-ROM, and Web production.

From the Back Cover

Create Sizzling Multimedia for the Web!

Take advantage of the latest Web, hardware, and software technologies, and produce powerful multimedia with this revised and updated edition of Tay Vaughan's best-seller. Multimedia: Making It Work, Fifth Edition, offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating effective multimedia from one of the multimedia industry's most renowned experts. You'll learn all about the components and processes, then begin building your own projects, from simple boardroom presentations to dynamic corporate CD-ROMs to Web sites that come alive. Widely used at colleges and universities around the world, this proven learning tool will help you:

• Understand the fundamental building blocks of multimedia, including text, images, motion video, sound, and interactivity.
• Execute all the elements of multimedia--text, images, motion, and sound--in real working situations.
• Get an inside perspective on the multimedia industry's shift from CD-ROMs to Web production.
• Get help and expert tips at every step, from conceptualizing and financing your project, through the final stages of design, production, and testing.
• Learn lessons through on-the-job accounts from industry professionals and compelling First Person stories from the author.
• PLUS--learn to use the hottest multimedia development and authoring tools. The bonus Macromedia CD features cross-platform trial versions of Director, Studio, Dreamweaver, Extreme 3D, SoundEdit, Fontographer, and more!

Whether you're a novice or a pro, you can learn how to create show-stopping results when you use this highly respected, best-selling multimedia primer.