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


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.
 
  • 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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