Rating: 
Summary: Wonderful Introduction from a First-Class Teacher
Review: This is the second book I've bought by the same author (the first was Mastering Adobe GoLive 4), and I was not disappointed. I think some of the reviewers here forget what it was like to just start out with the complex tools from Adobe, and have no patience for a tutorial that assumes nothing about the reader's experience. This book was wonderful. The author is an experienced teacher who has found just the right blend of instruction and hand-holding, without ever talking down to all the novice readers (like me!) out there who are most likely to benefit from this book. True, LiveMotion is probably targeted to users of other Adobe products, but this book doesn't hold you to that. Instead, it provides an elementary tour of the product's many features, and shows you how, why, and when to use each one. Best yet, this tutorial is not only clear, but a pleasure to read. Computer books, expecially books about graphics programs, all too often lose the sense of adventure and fun that should accompany experimenting with the program. This book remembers that, and the resulting approach invites the reader to continue reading all the way to the end. LiveMotion, like most Adobe products, is far too sophisticated to learn every nuance in 24 hours -- the real aims of this book are to introduce the application, point out what it can do and how, encourage the reader to experiment and, if necessary and/or desireable, find a more advanced text for further study. On all levels, this book succeeds. I eagerly await the next book(s) from Ms. Holzschlag. Thanks!
Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Introduction from a First-Class Teacher
Review: This is the second book I've bought by the same author (the first was Mastering Adobe GoLive 4), and I was not disappointed. I think some of the reviewers here forget what it was like to just start out with the complex tools from Adobe, and have no patience for a tutorial that assumes nothing about the reader's experience. This book was wonderful. The author is an experienced teacher who has found just the right blend of instruction and hand-holding, without ever talking down to all the novice readers (like me!) out there who are most likely to benefit from this book. True, LiveMotion is probably targeted to users of other Adobe products, but this book doesn't hold you to that. Instead, it provides an elementary tour of the product's many features, and shows you how, why, and when to use each one. Best yet, this tutorial is not only clear, but a pleasure to read. Computer books, expecially books about graphics programs, all too often lose the sense of adventure and fun that should accompany experimenting with the program. This book remembers that, and the resulting approach invites the reader to continue reading all the way to the end. LiveMotion, like most Adobe products, is far too sophisticated to learn every nuance in 24 hours -- the real aims of this book are to introduce the application, point out what it can do and how, encourage the reader to experiment and, if necessary and/or desireable, find a more advanced text for further study. On all levels, this book succeeds. I eagerly await the next book(s) from Ms. Holzschlag. Thanks!
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