Archive for February, 2009

02.08.09

Adobe CS4 First Impressions

As we transition to the new updates Adobe has made to their creative suite, the first impressions I have of Flash CS4 and Fireworks CS4 are really great. I think we’re truly beginning to see the advantage of the Adobe and Macromedia merge, what Adobe has done with the latest rev of Flash is taken everything I loved about After Effects and plugged it directly in. The new drawing and animation tools are so powerful and elegant to use it brings a lot more excitement and fun back into the building process. Fireworks, a program which had fallen off the radar for me for a while is back on track and hip to the XHTML/CSS table-less approach to coding. You can work with comps and build a very usable XHTML skeleton the way a human would code it using the GUI as a starting point. I can’t wait to experience more of the benefits of these new tools.