Sams Teach Yourself Adobe LiveMotion in 24 Hours

• Design animations and export them as Web-ready files in GIF or
  Flash Design animations and export them as Web-ready files in GIF or
  Flash
  
• Create Web site logos and splash pages
  
• Work with geometric, typographic, and image objects to create great designs
  
• Add energy and life to graphics with LiveMotion's extensive
  libraries, textures, and other custom features
  
• Perform image mapping by applying links to various portions of images
  
• Create rollover and remote rollover effects using Flash or JavaScript™
  
• Design Web sites using the appropriate site technology, visual
  design, and underlying architecture
  
• Innovate, plan, blueprint, and create a multimedia presentation
  suitable for disks, CD-ROM, or the Web

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started with LiveMotion

Hour 1: Learning LiveMotion Features

Hour 2: Setting Preferences and Working with the Composition Area

Hour 3: Understanding Web Graphics

Part II: Working with LiveMotion Objects

Hour 4: Selecting, Moving, and Resizing Objects

Hour 5: Creating Simple Objects

Hour 6: Importing Photos and Artwork as Objects

Hour 7: Setting Type with LiveMotion

Hour 8: Combining, Grouping, and Editing Objects

Hour 9: Working with Object Layers

Part III: Color, Shape, and Style

Hour 10: Getting Colorful

Hour 11: Working with the LiveMotion Library

Hour 12: Applying LiveMotion Styles

Hour 13: Textures, Gradients, Distortion, and 3D Effects

Hour 14: Matting and Cropping

Part IV: Creating Static and Dynamic Images for the Web

Hour 15: Designing Static Web Graphics

Hour 16: Image Mapping and Rollover Techniques

Hour 17: Creating Remote Rollovers

Part V: Animation and Multimedia

Hour 18: Exploring the Timeline

Hour 19: Designing Animations

Hour 20: Adding LiveMotion Audio

Hour 21: Creating a Multimedia Presentation

Part VI: Designing and Optimizing Advanced Web Presentations

Hour 22: Building a Web Site Using LiveMotion

Hour 23: Using LiveMotion for Page Compositing and Navigation Design

Hour 24: Optimizing and Exporting LiveMotion Files