- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $699.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: September 25, 2008
- Total Downloads: 4,532,916
- Downloads last week: 9,404
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 114 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Flash remains the champ of professional vector software for the Web. However, creating Web pages, interactive games, and videos in Flash CS3 is no one-two punch; the complexity remains a barrier for new learners.
Most notable in this version of Flash is its improved integration with the other Adobe products. You can now save time by importing layers from Photoshop and Illustrator files, so there's no need to convert and name one layer at a time. The customizable interface lets you choose where to dock the time line and other panels, and you can drag features to the toolbar.
Prebuilt components such as buttons can be dragged directly onto the stage, then customized. If you are drawing from scratch, Flash adds tools that include an Illustrator-style Pen as well as Shape Primitives for making shape alterations on the stage. New filters and blends add more creative options.
Everything about CS3 is faster than in CS2, from the compiler to the player, including the new Java-based compiler and debugger. Rather than fishing through your work to find errors, click on a trouble spot in the Compile Errors panel to go straight to the problematic code.
Nevertheless, Flash isn't perfect--particularly with some fine details. It's still hard to zoom into the center of the stage. We'd like more control over brush strokes, too. This upgrade will be worthwhile for professionals who work with the other Creative Suite applications, but the learning curve and cost should not be underestimated.
Publisher's description
From Adobe Systems :Adobe Flash CS4 Professional is the industry-leading authoring environment for creating engaging interactive experiences. Its friendly yet powerful new tools for animation and collaboration help you deliver rich dynamic content to wide audiences across browsers, desktops, and devices. New object-based animation tools make working in Flash easier and more intuitive for beginners and experts alike. Powerful design tools expand your creative possibilities, while exceptional integration with other Adobe software offers new efficiencies for your design and development workflows. Bring it all together in Flash and deliver the most dynamic content to audiences regardless of platform or device.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 114 votes
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Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4
"there is shortage in volume 8 that made me upset!!!"
Pros: adid not use it becouse of that
Cons: adid not use it becouse of that
Summary: adid not use it becouse of that
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Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4
Pros: 3D, Actionscript 3
Cons: This version has simply not been tested by humans.
Summary: The list runs forever :
- CS4 crashes often
- The new motion tween is unusable
- Becomes awfully slow to export when you embed fonts
- The help pages are only available online
- The interface is full of bugs or unexpected r... read more >> -
0 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4
"Macromedia did a better job than adobe with flash"
Pros: Flash is one of the most powerful and useful web applications to hit the internet.
Cons: Not many people i talk to like actionscript 3.0 like me i use 2
Summary: Flash is worth learning if you do web design.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4
"The interface looks very good."
Pros: Great interface. The package offers almost everything a designer's heart would long for ;-)
Cons: Some annoying bugs. Not stable on my system. Prefered CS3. Download did not start. Have to get elsewhere.
Summary: I would stay with CS3 and save a lot of bucks. The new stuffs are not convincing enough for me,
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6 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4
Pros: BAD BAD BAD... ITS VERY HARD TO DOWNLOAD!
Cons: DAMN SOFTWARE! I HATE THIS SINCE I WANT TO START TO DOWNLOAD. DONT WASTE UR TIME WITH BAD MAKERS
Summary: SO EXPENSIVE IDIOT! ASIAN PEOPLE LIKES PIRATES SOFTWARES BECAUSE CHEAP! PRICE DOESNT MAKE SENSE! MY SALARY IS CHEAPER THAN UR PRICE....
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