Summary

In this chapter, you have been introduced to the four (3 + 1) steps of a typical Captivate production process. You toured the application's interface and learned how to customize it to fit your needs. Thanks to the workspace feature, you have been able to save your customized interface as a new workspace in order to reapply your custom panel layout anytime you want to. Best of all, the Captivate interface works the same way as the interface of other Adobe applications. So, if you plan on learning Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and so on, you already know how the interface of these applications works!

Finally, you have been walked through the sample applications used in this book, which gave you your first high-level overview of Captivate's rich set of features.

In the next chapter, you will concentrate on the first step of the Captivate production process: the capture step. You will learn various techniques used to capture the slides and you will discover the inner working of Captivate's capture engine. You will also learn about tips and tricks that will help you take the first critical decision—choosing the right size for your project.