References for Chapter 4

Books

• Nigel Chapman and Jenny Chapman, Digital Media Tools (John Wiley & Sons: 3rd ed., 2007)

  A practical introduction to some of the most commonly used tools for multimedia production. This edition covers the CS3 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and Dreamweaver. (Note that we do not describe Flash ActionScript in this book.)

• James D. Murray and William vanRyper, Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats (O'Reilly: 2nd ed., 1996)

  The bulk of this book comprises descriptions of the internal layout of nearly 100 graphics file formats, including those commonly encountered in multimedia (GIF, JFIF, PNG, etc.). As such, it will only be of interest to programmers. The introductory chapters provide a useful review of some aspects of computer graphics and a general description of how the necessary information can be stored in a file. Extensive pointers to defining documents, standards, and so on are included.

Web Pages

• JPEG

  This is the official site of the JPEG committee, containing information about the various standards they have created, including JPEG itself and JPEG2000. You can’t get the actual standards here as they are published by ISO.