A quick and practical introduction to LiveMotion, Adobes object-oriented design tool for creating Web graphics and animation.

"Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere 6.5 in 24 Hours" offers practical advice from an author with a strong writing background, solid teaching experience, and extensive television production credentials. Rather than simply presenting a collection of disconnected lessons, "Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere 6.5 in 24 Hours" always reminds its readers of the big picture and what they're trying to accomplish. The book includes not only instruction on the basics of using Premiere 6.5, but also tips on shooting high quality video, creating professional voice-overs, and effective methods. Adobe Premiere 6.5 brings high-end video editing to the PC (90% of Premiere users use Windows). Anyone with a Windows PC who wants to venture into anything more than very simple video editing will eventually turn to Premiere 6.5. The planned new version of Premiere, version 6.5 (slated for release in late summer 2002), will garner significant attention in part because it will add DVD authoring to its extensive feature set. The opportunity to create DVDs-from home movies to Hollywood productions-on PCs is a dramatic development, and Premiere 6.5 will be at the forefront of the emerging technology. The author has been working closely with Adobe, advising them on DVD software issues.

Updated and revised, this bestselling tutorial is a clearly written, well-organized introduction to Flash and gives the beginner an overview of the application's newest version.

The 24 one-hour lessons in this tutorial make information concerning Adobe GoLive manageable for readers. Pratt provides snippets of HTML code or Web site addresses that complement the material. Includes undocumented features and shortcuts, related Web-site links, and HTML code for special tricks and layouts.

This manual shows what can be done with XML, while also teaching where the technology is headed. It includes topics like displaying XML files in HTML files, performing queries in XSL and building an online store.

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will get up to speed on the basics of creating and editing computer graphics with Adobe Illustrator. Using a straightforword, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the fundamentals of Illustrator from the ground up.