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Application Development: eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Adobe Creative Suite 4

By Jim Rapoza on 2009-02-09


Adobe Creative Suite 4, the latest version of Adobe's massive and dominant graphics and rich media development suite, has undergone some significant changes, including a new interface and improved integration between the individual components.

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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Adobe Creative Suite 4

by Jim Rapoza

The Live View in Dreamweaver CS4 makes it possible to work on pages and see changes in real time.

The updated interface in Dreamweaver CS4 lets users quickly switch between different development interfaces.

With the new object-based animation in Flash CS4, users can now directly manipulate objects to define animation paths.

Two-dimensional objects in Flash CS4 can now be quickly transformed into 3-D animated objects.

The new adjustments panel in Photoshop CS4 makes it easy to quickly edit images.

Photoshop CS4's new masks panel makes it simple to create and edit masks.

The carousel mode in Adobe Bridge provides a new method for sorting through media files.

A new cartoon effect in Adobe After Effects lets users make live footage look like cell animation.

It is now possible to easily build skins and prototypes for Adobe AIR applications from within Fireworks.

In Illustrator, CS4 users can easily create multiple artboards and deliver them in complete packages.

Content created in InDesign CS4 can now be directly exported as Flash.

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