May 2007
Beginner
530 pages
16h 16m
English
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What's New in Flash CS3
When Adobe acquired Macromedia at the end of 2005, graphic artists and Web designers held their breath waiting to learn what this meant for Flash, as well as Dreamweaver (a favorite Web design tool). For the most part, there were sighs of relief when Adobe folded both beloved programs into its high-powered Creative Suite. Some Flash fans were concerned that Adobe might change Flash from a simple animation design program into a full-fledged program authoring environment. Actually, the difference between the two is mostly in the minds of marketing geeks. After all, an interactive Web site or tutorial created using Flash is, by definition, a program.
Now that the dust has settled, most of the improvements you see in Flash CS3 compared to the previous version (Flash 8) have to do with bringing Flash into the Adobe Creative Suite family. For the programming crowd, the big news is Action-Script 3.0—Flash's new scripting language. But in addition, Adobe also added a few usability tweaks, plus a couple of new image-editing features.
Here's a short list of the differences between Flash CS3 and Flash 8:
A traditional Adobe workspace. The Flash workspace now takes its cues from Photoshop, Illustrator, and the other programs in Adobe's Creative Suite family. At first the changes may seem cosmetic and somewhat subtle, but as you work with Flash, you'll appreciate refinements like the way the docking panels snap into place. The toolbars and other onscreen doodads have a more ...
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