Welcome to Opus Creator and thank you for purchasing this Digital Workshop product.
Opus Creator provides a versatile multimedia creativity tool for quickly and easily creating all kinds of interactive digital documents including
Flash animations and simple games for attractive websites
HTML5 websites, banners and games
rich-media presentations with data capture for customer feedback or order forms
interactive books with animated words and pictures and background music
educational materials on CD Rom, online or for download
trivia quizzes and puzzles
Creator has been well-known for making interactive multimedia creativity open to all since it was originally launched (under the name Illuminatus) nearly two decades ago. We always consider customer feedback in this process and many of the new features are as a direct result of real world requirements.
The easiest way to get to know Opus is via the Getting Started topics listed at the bottom of this page, and via the tutorials on our website. Additional information and ideas on how to use Opus Creator for specific projects is also available along with details of feature highlights on our website.
Tutorials
Many of the issues raised with our support team are specific to the publication and could be solved by working through a series of steps to identify the cause of the problem. Therefore we do ask that you review the following topics before contacting support as over 80% of our emails refer to the considerations indicated below.
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It is worthwhile giving these topics a quick read to help you avoid problems before they even arise.
For more publication issues check
Solving Problems with Publications
One of the great benefits of Opus is the excellent online support community it now has. You can often get quick answers to technical and creative problems from other users through the online users forum listed below. And because there are Opus users around the world theres often someone online to help at any time of the day or night wherever you are in the world.
Digital Workshops forum is at
If you experience technical problems especially when running under Windows v7 please check the following topic:
For technical issues with the program itself, we provide free technical support for Opus via the support option on the Help menu or via email at
We provide a range of resources and examples to make the most of Opus or to provide working examples to get you started on specific projects quickly. These are provide free of charge from our website and are regularly updated.
Here is a quick link to the resource section of the Digital Workshop website:
www.digitalworkshop.com./resources
New in this Version:
Getting Started: