Adobe Flash Professional CS4

• License:

  Free to try; $699.00 to buy (Buy it now)

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 109 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  4,302,286

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Vista, Windows XP

• Additional Requirements:

  No additional requirements

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  September 25, 2008

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Adobe Flash Professional CS3 Adobe Flash Professional 8 Flash MX 2004 7.0 Macromedia Flash MX 6.0 Macromedia Flash 5.0 Macromedia Flash 4.0 Macromedia Flash 3.0 Macromedia Flash 3.0 beta 3

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Publisher's description of Adobe Flash Professional

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software is an advanced 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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Editor's review of Adobe Flash Professional

• 5.0 stars

• "No shortcuts with Flash CS3"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: Adobe Flash Professional CS4

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.

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• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 109 votes
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• 3 stars

  Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4

  "The interface looks very good."

  by masterofblackjack on June 15, 2009

  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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• 1 stars

  0 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4

  "SUCKS WAREZ"

  by unbrutal on May 23, 2009

  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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• 1 stars

  Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4

  "More annoying than Office 2007 by a distance!!!"

  by Maj98 on March 9, 2009

  Pros: Pretty looking, but looks aren't everything.

  Cons: Couldn't find any tutorials for CS4. Very annoyed with the no manuals policy. Felt very cheated, instead I am expected to relay on a community help page - your lucky if you find anything relating to what your searching for! Money down the drain.

  Summary: Simple things like trying to make a simple fade in, fade out - became a song and a dance. Couldn't get the alpha setting to work, yet this feature was very straight forward to do in CS3. The menu change round wasn't helpful, I spent far to long on... read more >>

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• 1 stars

  Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4

  "BROKEN FILE LINK"

  by strappingyoungladd on February 7, 2009

  Pros: the file link is broken, same error as states in previous review.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Adobe Flash Professional CS4

  "Not Found The requested UR was not found on this server"

  by miyu68 on February 1, 2009

  Pros: Pending. . .

  Cons: Can't DL. . .

  Summary: "Not Found
  
  The requested URL /sd/18KywmrwntdaYTaVsqNVCtIaiBdjn_E-sigW8CVWmrEsEGnh736rfQJYFB4Wbf_QqqyOm1xdXrg0bb0EO7_8MMMa4rvmnkRI/software/10997051/10018718/3/downloads.html was not found on this server"

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