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SmartWatch Design Fundamentals

WatchFace Design for Samsung Galaxy SmartWatches

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Overview

  • Learn the fundamental of smartwatch design in this unique and compact book
  • Understand digital image and animation file formats and data footprint optimization
  • Build a production pipeline utilizing Galaxy Watch Designer 1.60

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

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About this book

Gain concepts central to smartwatch design, editing and animation correction using the popular open source Galaxy Watch Designer software package. This visual guide builds upon the essential concepts of smartwatch design, decoration, digital imaging, animation, function integration, and visual effects, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering which digital new media file formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.) are best for use with smartwatch design.

Smart Watch Design Fundamentals also covers key factors in the data footprint optimization work process, designing and optimizing animation assets, and why these optimizations are important. Additionally, the book covers other advanced topics such as how to provide free smartwatch faces for the first few days on the smartwatch store, and how to post watchface designs for sale in the store.


What You'll Learn:
  • Create a smartwatch design and visual effects pipeline
  • Gain knowledge of the concepts behind smartwatch design
  • Work with resolution, aspect ratio, animation, and color depth
  • Use smartwatch design components such as ticks, numerals, feature markers, dates, etc. 
  • Optimizing digital image asset data footprint to create small smartwatch design file sizes




Who This Book Is For:
This book is primarily for smart watch and fashion designers.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Lompoc, USA

    Wallace Jackson

About the author

Wallace Jackson is a seasoned multimedia producer for International Device Manufacturers as well as an Author for Apress covering Open Source, Software Development, Game Development and New Media content development.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: SmartWatch Design Fundamentals

  • Book Subtitle: WatchFace Design for Samsung Galaxy SmartWatches

  • Authors: Wallace Jackson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4369-5

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Wallace Jackson 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4368-8Published: 09 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4369-5Published: 08 March 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 446

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 345 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Hardware and Maker, Computer Graphics

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