Before you start creating animations, you need to set up the page with the size that fits your needs as a place to put the animated objects. You need to ensure in advance the animation for what you will make. For example, you will create an animation object to the introduction of a web or first page of the web with size of 500 x 400 pixels or you'll create a web banner size 500 x 60 pixels.
Setting the Page Size
How to set the page size is as follows.
1. Make sure you have opened SwishMax.
2. On the Movie Panel, the content width and height as needed. For example to create an introductory web page, make a size of 500 x 400 pixels. Fill in the Width and Height = 500 = 400. Consider the following figure.
Before you learn more, first you must know the layout or interface of SwishMax so you can use this application program quickly. In order to look at in this book are the same as the display on your monitor screen, use the monitor settings 1024 x 768 pixels.
Once you open SwishMax, Start Up menu is displayed as shown below.
You can choose:
- Start a new empty movie to create a new movie,
- Start a new movie from a template to create a movie from a template that has been provided, and
- Work on an existing movie to open the movie you've ever made before.
Select the first option to create a new movie. Further display SwishMax interface will look like the picture below.
Main Menu
The top part is the Main Menu. Main Menu is a command in the pulldown menu. The contents of this menu such as File, Edit, View, Insert, Modify, Control, Tool, Panels, and Help.
Tool Bar
Under the Main Menu appears small icons called Toolbar. Toolbar function the same as the Main Menu, but with the toolbar you can perform commands more quickly, ie by clicking on the icon. For example to open a file you can simply click on the Open Standard toolbar. There are several types of toolbars on the line, namely: Standard Toolbar, Insert Toolbar, Toolbar Control,
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| Standar Toolbar |
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| Insert Toolbar |
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| Contrl Toolbar |
To be able to use SwishMax well, a minimum configuration of your computer system is as follows.
- Using the Windows operating system 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP.
- Computer with minimum Pentium 2 processor or higher.
- Memory 64 mb.
- A minimum monitor resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with 256 colors.
- SwishMax already installed on your computer.
Compared with previous versions, SwishMax version has new facilities such as:
- Development of scripts facilities,
- Addition of new effects which is quite a lot, of 230 effects.
- Facility to draw a more complete,
- Display or a more complete program interface making it easy to manage animated objects.
- Improved import and export facilities as well as the ability to generate an executable file.
- And others.
You may never see an animation on a web page very interesting. Unimaginable how to make it. If you have mastered the animation program like Macromedia Flash though, would take days to mengasilkan animation effects are very attractive. And you also be surprised to learn that the animation was just made within a matter of seconds. This ability Swish.
The last two years, many web sites are decorated with animation produced by Swish. At that Swish 1.5 is very popular among practitioners of web design. Usually they combine the processed Swish animated with Macromedia Flash. With the collaboration between Swish and Macromedia Flash animation will be generated image of a professional. Generally made with Swish animation used to create objects banners, menus, interactive buttons, and others.
In addition to web animation, you can insert these animations Swish processed into documents created with PowerPoint presentations resulting presentation is more attractive and appealing.
