Adobe on Tuesday announcedFlash CS3 Professionaladding integration to other applications in the Creative Suite . Flash also include options for in advance QuickTime exportation and a common interface with the rest of Creative Suite .
“ One of the main thing we focus on was integrating — specifically the interface and intergration with Photoshop and Illustrator , ” Richard Galvan , Flash Product Manager , told Macworld .
Of exceptional interest for Flash users is the integration the lotion now has with Photoshop and Illustrator . With CS3 you’re able to import native Photoshop ( PSD ) and Illustrator ( AI ) files directly into your Flash CS3 layouts .
When you import a Photoshop data file into Flash , a duologue box appears giving you the meaning choice . you could take to spell the intact layer power structure of the Photoshop file or you could opt which bed you desire to spell and pick out from a variety of preferences for each individual bed . For deterrent example , you’re able to keep on Photoshop text as editable schoolbook in Flash , change Photoshop layer or layer groups to motion-picture show clips , and even limit publish stage setting .
Flash can also set the point size of it of your project to tally the canvass size of it of the Photoshop data file , and can also ensure that layer content appear in position .
“ This one feature film is really going to spare people a great deal of time , ” aver Galvan .
substance abuser will go through a similar operation when import Illustrator files . While this may not have count so good in the past times , Adobe said that Flash CS3 maintains a much higher degree of target fidelity , mean that Illustrator objects — and text — brought into Flash now depend just like they did in Illustrator .
Flash now has a redesigned user port with the same workspace panels and port options as the other Adobe program . In fact , this unified user port is now ordered across Flash , Photoshop , Illustrator , InDesign , After Effects , and Soundbooth .
Flash is integrated with Adobe Bridge where single file can be open , hold open , and dredge and dropped into project . you could also grapple and track variation of your single file with Version Cue CS3 .
Flash CS3 introduces an advanced QuickTime export feature that capture exactly what Adobe Flash Player play back . That means complex nested symbols and all ActionScript will export precisely as you would have realize and heard them in Flash Player .
Longtime users of Flash will appreciate ActionScript 3.0 , a fresh interpretation of the programming environment . agree to Adobe , ActionScript 3.0 scales easy to encounter your expectations and is loose to use than you would expect .
work up as a Universal Binary for Intel Macs , Galvan say the company has get wind 40 percent to 60 percent performance increases under certain tasks .
Adobe Flash CS3 Professionalwill commence shipping in April 2007 to customers in the United States and Canada . Adobe Flash CS3 will cost $ 699 — rising slope selection are available from the company ’s Web site .
