Coverage of the latest and greatest technology! Major changes run through each and every chapter, where discussions of up-to-date technologies have been added. In Chapter 4, mobile phone ringtones are described to showcase the creation and management of sound files. In Chapter 6, video formats are discussed in relation to new multimedia tags available within HTML5. The focus of the book is on creating all of the elements of multimedia and teaching readers how to weave them together for maximum effect. These new additions ensure that readers learn how to achieve that maximum effect using the most current tools.
While the book has been updated to showcase the newest technology, the overall structure of the book remains much the same: readers first learn to work with the essential multimedia building blocks of text, images, sound, animation, and video and then build on this knowledge to understand the process and business of making multimedia. For this edition, four chapters dealing with technical material from earlier editions have been combined into a single new chapter entitled “Making Multimedia.” Synthesizing this material into a single chapter enables readers to learn in a one-stop shop what hardware and software are needed to build multimedia projects.
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