Is it worth upgrading? Flash CS3 New Edition Reviews

I'm a livemotion supporter of Livemotion, a software that Adobe launched in 2000 to contend with Flash, and it was completely defeated by Flash only three years later. In the spirit of "if you cannot beat it, then put it under its wing", Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia in 2005-2006 may have been more focused on flash than on other things. The result is the long-awaited adobe Flash CS3 Professional, although this "Professional" looks a bit abrupt, because after all, this is a single version of the program. Flash is a widely used software that can be seen everywhere in web animations and other applications. The release of this release does not solve some of the problems in Flash, but the biggest contribution adobe has made is to integrate it with Photoshop and illustrator, which is a great success to marvel at.

Because of the obvious importance of Flash to Adobe, the program is well equipped on all fronts, but it has only one CS version, the design standard version. I tested flash on Windows Vista, XP, and Mac OS X, respectively.

In my evaluation of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, I have reservations about the applications that open multiple minimized dashboards and dual monitor support. Fortunately, the Flash interface has been overhauled and penetrated into most of the creative suite. According to Adobe's statistics, 70% of Flash users will also use illustrator, and 94% of users will use Photoshop, The most pressing requirement for these users is to improve the ability of Photoshop and illustrator files to be imported into flash. To our delight, Adobe did do it. Whether you are working on Photoshop files or illustrator files, you can get the most basic, same import window, and let you drill down into the file to solve problems, such as real-time text and image compression. When the image is imported into the flash stage, all levels are preserved. Also, when you import a vector graph from illustrator into Flash, the fidelity of the path is improved.

The above mentioned let us associate with the careful rectification of the Bezier curve pen tool. Now, its effect is almost equivalent to the illustrator of the advanced brush, whether it is the overall effect or the details of the aspect. This is a good thing, but my main complaint about Flash CS3 is the lack of attention to the brush tool, which is the best freehand drawing tool for Flash.

Adobe seems to overlook the importance of flash as a creation tool for playing animations. Some reviewers mentioned that Flash was used to "create interactive sites, rich media ads, instructional media, glamorous slides, online games, or mobile device content", but not half of the dynamic videos mentioned that they were created in Flash. Let's be honest: painting in Flash is not a very enjoyable experience. Why are brushes so limited in size? Why isn't the brush able to draw the same length of line without ignoring the zoom level? As soft as Toon Boom Studio provides a more flexible and humane environment for people to make non-interactive cartoons, I think Adobe does need to spend a bit more effort on this in the CS4 version.

If I'm angry with hand-painted animations in Flash CS3, then we can be more relieved in terms of procedures. ActionScript 3 was first entered in Flash, and Flash also made good use of it. One of the great features is the ability to convert your timeline into animations and transitions, and put them into ActionScript. This helps the designer and the developer or the left brain user and the right brain user work together. When you look at the code in the Action window, you are free to overlap the timeline, allowing it to automatically focus on the task at hand. The new bug-clearing tool will help you get rid of the bugs in your ActionScript code better.

Of course, sites such as YouTube make Flash more popular, and Flash CS3 comes with a companion tool in the previous version of Flash video decoder (Flash encoder). Now, it adds new additions, such as interlace support, but the biggest improvement is in the video player, and there are many presets and custom components that you can set freely.

Summarize:

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional is an excellent program with a wide range of features, and for CS3, the biggest breakthrough for Adobe is the effort to integrate this program with Photoshop and illustrator. Still, Adobe leaves a lot of room for improvement on the road to CS4, but better integration is enough for most users to upgrade.