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MetaCreations Painter 5.5 A Digital Approach to Natural Art Media

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ISBN-10: 0130135372

ISBN-13: 9780130135377

Edition: 1999

Authors: Inc. Staff Against the Clock, Ellenn Behovian

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For any course that includes graphic arts software and computer design software as part of the curriculum. Courses can be found in Office Information Systems, Computer Science, and Fine Arts Departments, as well as Continuing Education, Journalism, and Printing and Lithography. Texts are built with the same pedagogical structure, designed to be used separately or in sets. Already popular in corporate training environments.
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Book details

List price: $35.33
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 4/15/1999
Binding: Comb Bound 
Pages: 336
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Getting Started
Platform
Naming Conventions
Key Commands
The CD-ROM and Initial Setup Considerations
Introduction
The Painter Interface
Grid Overlay
Rulers and Guides
Zooming
Tracing Paper
Image Info (pop-up menu)
Full-Screen Mode
Painter and pictures
Opening Files
Saving Your Work
Your Preferences
Working with Painter
Navigating and Utility Tools
The Selection Tools
Adjuster Tools
Shape Tools
Shape Edit Tools
Color-based Tools
Palettes, Drawers, and Libraries
Customizing the Interface
Custom Palettes
The Menu Bar
Painting
Creating a New Canvas
Making Marks
The Art Materials Palette (Revisited)
Test-Driving the Textures and Grads
Creating Instant Artwork
The Image Hose
Making Your Own Nozzle
Surface Control
The Paper Palette
Plug-In Floaters
Cloners
Setting up the Clone and Using Tracing Paper
Using Brushes and Cloning
Painting with Cloners Brushers
Recording and Playing Back Strokes
Auto Clone
Cloning Back Original Detail
Using Surface Controls and Clones
Cloning with Regular Brushes and Using 3-D Brush Strokes
Floaters
Looking at Floaters
Using Reference Floaters and Composite Methods
Making Drop-Shadows
Painting on Floaters and New Brushes
Pixel-Based Masking
Some Important Things to Knoe about Masks
Drawing Modes
Invert Mask Command
Mosaics and Tesselations
Working with Mosaics
Clone-based Mosaics
Fine-tuning Mosaics
Re-sizing and Re-rendering
Creating 3-D Mosaic Tiles
Tesselations
Creating a Clone-based Tesselation with Mask and Surface Texture
Working with Shapes
Examining the Shape Tools
Using the Pen and Quick Curve
Using Shapes to Create an Illustration
Special Effects
Effects Menu: Orientation
Effects: Tonal Control
Effects: Surface Control
Effects: Focus
Effects: Esoterica
Apply Marbling
Blobs
Plug-in Floaters
Liquid Metal
New Plug-in Brushes
Color Controls
Tonal Controls
Correct Colors
Adjust Colors
Adjust Selected Colors
Equalize
Negative
Posterize
Plug-in Photo Brushes
Color Sets
Annotations
Animation
Creating an Animation
Deleting a Frame
Inserting a Frame
Movies and Scripts
Applying a Script to a Movie
Cloning a Movie
Timing Considerations
Saving and Exporting Movies
Exporting Movies using a Macintosh (QuickTime)
Exporting a Movie using Windows (AVI Movie)
Conclusion
Web Design
Understanding the Weband Designing for it
Planning the Page
Background Tiles
Creating the Banner
Creating JPEG files
Understanding Image Maps
The Image Slicer
JavaScript Rollovers
Review # 2
Projects
Southern Garden Book Jacket
End Game Movie Poster
Swim Meet Today Banner
Shells Restaurant Menu Cover
Arrive Alive Public Service Announcement
Sports Web Page
Glossary
Index