Thursday, September 23, 2010

Week 4 Pratical Experience #2 - Flash Review

Flash Professional CS5 is being described by some as the industry standard for interactive authoring and designing that delivers content consistently to PC’s and Mac’s, mobile devices and white boards/screens of virtually any size and resolution. It is an application that creates web-based animation and web-sites without the ability to write code. This opens up web and graphic designing to many more artists and dreamer-type people than those computer geeks who write code.

The programs overall diversity included the ability to embed video into websites, create interactive websites, drawing and animating graphics and cartoons, and creating games that are web-based. It’s main strength is for making interactive menus, buttons and websites.

The work flow is pretty straight forward and intuitive. There are similarities to design apps, such as buttons for editing color and creating shapes, drawing lines, curves and shapes as well as writing text. Drop down menus provide options to select and speciality menus for those exceptionally creative tools.

The Flash CS5 app integrates with other Adobe software, such as Fireworks, Illustrator and PhotoShop. This ensures the users ability to move between the different apps with out the fear of losing the interactive parts that have been built into their Flash creation.

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