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It looks like adobe will be releasing a revision to all major applications including: Photoshop (now with two versions), Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth as well as other minor releases. I am excited to finally get my hands on the intelmac versions of all this software.
One interesting app is the Adobe Device Center which allows developers to test for mobile devices. This should allow developers to better support web development on the mobile web.
I will make updates to this section as the information becomes available.
Filed under Web Design by Jeff Boulay | 0 comments
This is another interesting implementation of flash that is similar to SIFR (flash based text replacement). It allow the designer to implement and combine a small group of image filters such as rounded corners, borders, drop shadow as well as allowing users to scale images within an elastic image. It does all of this in a light weight script that degrades gracefully.
I really like to see these unconventional ways of using flash. It really gives flash a new life even with web standards based designers and search engine optimizers alike. Flash does not have to be a resource hog that takes forever to download and can really bring some extra punch to your design.
Another great use for this is with in a content management application so that you could use CSS and SWFIR to dynamically alter all images with a give tag very quickly and unobtrusively to the editor.
Over all I really like this application. I think that this is a great addition to any web designers arsenal .