Post Description

One of the most exciting additions that HTML5 offers to designers is the ability to draw free-form graphics on a drawing surface known as the Canvas. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces the technical concepts behind Canvas and shows how to perform drawing operations directly in a web page. The course covers drawing basic and complex shapes, setting colors and styles, adding shadows, patterns, and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotating, and compositing objects, and how to incorporate Canvas elements in a slideshow and an animation. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:

    Understanding the differences between Canvas and SVG Graphics
    Drawing shapes
    Drawing arcs and paths
    Rendering text
    Using clipping paths
    Drawing images and video
    Transforming objects with the translate tag
    Manipulating raw pixels
    Applying a custom transformation
    Creating an animation or slideshow control with Canvas