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- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
4,058,287
- Operating Systems:
Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, 256 MB RAM; 710 MB available disk space
- Limitations:
30-day free trial
- Date Added:
September 30, 2003
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Publisher's description of Adobe Flash Professional 8
From Adobe Systems:Flash Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash Professional 8, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.
Editor's review of Adobe Flash Professional 8
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- "No shortcuts with Flash CS3"
- Version reviewed: Adobe Flash Professional 8
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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User reviews of Adobe Flash Professional 8
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 109 votes
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17 out of 32 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional 8
"Nice blend of simple and advanced"
Pros: I think this program has a nice blend of simple functions and advanced functions, a must have really for any serious web publisher
Cons: possibly a bit to hard to learn at first?
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional 8
Pros: Obviously a professional product that yields professional results, just look at the amount of Flash templates on the web. Plenty of support. The de facto animation program.
Cons: Huge learning curve, overpriced, and not 100% compatible with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition.
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional 8
"Very good creation tool for someone who is really into it"
Pros: If you are a passionate web designer/developer, you will manage to spice up your website with a lot of attractive content.
If not, there is a lot of support on the web to start learning now so don't get discouraged. You only need patience and determination. It is not easy but, at this level, nothing is.
Cons: Very expensive
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional 8
Pros: This isn't for the inpatient or well stupid. this is for designers or hobbiests that want to create rich media projects that stand out. people have said that the files don't open..well they are retarded. if you are somewhat computer savy and want a good program to play with..get this
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6 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Flash Professional 8
Pros: Reviewer: Raget
Pros: I think this program has a nice blend of simple functions and advanced functions, a must have really for any serious web publisher
Cons: VEry hard to learn at first
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