LiveMotion for Windows and Macintosh

Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas have written and designed Visual QuickStart Guides for Phototshop, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, and Painter. Their books have been translated into 12 languages and have sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide. Based in Connecticut, they have taught at Pratt Manhattan, Cooper Union School of Art, the New School Computer Instruction Center, and Parsons School of Design.

1. Warmup.


What the Heck is LiveMotion, Anyway? Palettes galore. Webspeak Demystified.



2. Rev Up.


Creating and Opening Compositions. Navigating. Saving. Undoing. Ending a Work Session. Dry Run: Create a Button.



3. Create Objects.


Drawing Geometric Objects. Selecting and Deleting. Reshaping. Shapes and the Library Palette.



4. Work with Objects.


Selecting. Scaling. Moving. Using Aliases and Duplicates. Grouping. Restacking. Aligning. Pasting.



5. Layers & Styles.


Creating Layers. Working with Layers. Changing Layer opacity. Removing attributes. Copying Attributes. Using Styles.



6. Embellish.


Applying Color. Adjusting Colors. Applying 3D Effects. Applying Distortion.



7. Text.


Creating Text for the Web.



8. Acquire Images.


Acquiring Images. Placing. Replacing. Using the Clipboard. Drag-and-Drop. Photoshop Filters. Using Alpha Channels. Scanning.



9. Edit Objects.


Transforming Objects. Combining Objects. Cropping. Using mattes.



10. Textures.


Applying Textures.



11. Backgrounds.


Creating Backgrounds.



12. Rollovers.


Basic Rollovers. Using Sound. Previewing Rollovers.



13. Animation.


Animation Basics. Using the Timeline Editor. Working with Keyframes. Saving Animations. Adding Sound.



14. More Animation.


Converting Layers. Reshaping Objects. Breaking Apart Text. Grouping Objects for Animation. Using Motion Paths. Setting the Render Size. Using Rollovers with Animation.



15. Behaviors.


Behaviors Basics. Moving, Deleting, and Editing Behavior Events.



16. Export.


Exporting LiveMotion Files. Previewing. Exporting. Using HTML. Batch Replacement. Printing. Slicing. Extras.