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Digital Media Tools, 2nd edition

ISBN: 0-470-85748-X
Paperback 646 pages
John Wiley & Sons, August 2003

Digital Media Tools, 3rd Edition was published in Autumn 2007. This completely revised edition covers the CS3 versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver and Bridge. For further information, please visit www.digitalmediatools.org or Wiley's Web page for Digital Media Tools. Or download a sampler containing short extracts from the main chapters of the book. Lecturers and instructors may request an evaluation copy.

Exercises and source material for practical work can be found in the Materials section of the site.

If you intend to use the sample materials provided here as the basis for practical work, please read the important notice on RSI and safe working.

Digital Media Tools is an introduction to the major software tools used for creating multimedia. Focusing on multimedia authoring for the Web, it offers basic instruction in the practical preparation of illustrations and still images, video animation and sound. It enables students to learn through doing as well as to understand the basics of design and integration in a multimedia environment. The book is intended as a practical companion text to Digital Multimedia.

The 2nd edition of Digital Media Tools was published in August 2003. As we explain in more detail in the Note to the 2nd edition, it consists of the text of the 1st edition, augmented with supplements for later versions of most of the media tools described in the book. For owners of the 1st edition, these supplements can be downloaded as PDF files from the supplements page of this site.

Web Design: A Complete Introduction Our new 700 page course text Web Design: A Complete Introduction was published in the UK in October 2006 and should now be available worldwide. Find out more at www.webdesignbook.org.