Exciting new developments in hardware and software have made computer-based multimedia presentations a reality. Here is a comprehensive guide that teaches people what they need to know to create and produce multimedia products with high-tech tools. Includes a reference section of resources: books, magazines, products, and organizations.

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An essential companion for multimedia enthusiasts, this handbook offers the layman an understanding of all relevant hardware, software, authoring, and distribution issues. Rosch covers it all in a user-friendly, hands-on exploratory fashion. The CD includes a demo version of some of the multimedia software and development tools covered in the book, as well as other utilities.

The Multimedia Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of uses of multimedia. The first part of the book introduces the technology for the non-specialist. Part Two covers multimedia applications and markets. Tony Cawkell details the huge array of authoring software which is now available, as well as the distribution of multimedia data by telephone, cable, satellite or radio communications. There is an extensive bibliography, a glossary of technical terms and acronyms and a full index.

Here's the ultimate hands-on reference for artists, designers, and anyone who works with today's leading image editing software. McClelland covers everything from Photoshop fundamentals to extensive coverage of advanced features and techniques. The book contains everything you'll need to know about specifying colors, retouching, corrective filtering and cropping. McClelland, a bestselling author, has written over 30 books about desktop publishing and graphics.

Intended as a textbook for students of computer science and management, this study strives to bring the concept of multimedia and computer graphics into a single volume. The book covers most of the scan conversion algorithms and other necessary ingredients for realistic rendering, such as techniques of image clipping, illumination and shading. It lays down the fundamental principles of computer graphics and provides the methodologies and algorithms, which act as building blocks of advanced animation and rendering techniques. The emphasis is clearly on explaining the techniques and the mathematical basis. The book also gives an introductory level description on graphics and audio and video hardware, which is sufficient for understanding some of the intricacies in these fields. Since graphics are best learnt with the help of computer implementation of the graphics algorithm, the pseudocodes and problems at the ends of chapters will encourage readers to implement some of the interesting applications of graphics.

Multimedia Information Systems explores the technical, human, organizational and socio-economic issues which underpin the implementation and use of multimedia information systems. This unique book comprehensively defines multimedia information systems and its emerging architecture. Today's important issues of networked multimedia information systems and multimedia trafficking on the information superhighway are thoroughly investigated. Multimedia information systems applications and organizational implications are also discussed along with multimedia authoring systems. Multimedia Information Systems is essential reading for all students and professionals faced with the challenges of multimedia information systems management and development. Multimedia Information Systems develops an awareness of the problems associated with multimedia information systems management, and the ability to understand and address these emerging challenges on an organizational and technical level. The book explores the limitations of multimedia on the information superhighway, and offers solutions for present and future development on the Internet. This book also scrutinizes the current applications of multimedia information systems, and examines how they can be developed. Multimedia Information Systems serves as an excellent text for courses on the subject, and as an invaluable reference for multimedia information systems professionals.