Integrating Adobe Flash with Other CS5 Applications – Basix

Since the early release of the Adobe Creative Suite, integration between its products has been one of the key features. After Adobe’s merger with Macromedia, Creative Suite integration extended to cover products such as Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. This tutorial demonstrates how we can use Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects together to build a single project. Integration between Adobe Creative Suite products improves your workflow through these applications by giving you the ability to move between each of them easily and efficiently.

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Get Interactive with InDesign CS5, Part 2 of 2

In the second part of this two-part tutorial, Tom Green shows InDesign CS5 users how to export an interactive InDesign document to a swf file and as a Flash project that can be edited in Flash.

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50+ Really Amazing Step-By-Step Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator is the best vector graphics editor and is also used for the web and print designing. Illustrator offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out your design, it provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing tools, expressive natural brushes, a host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live online services. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master. We can easily find tens of thousands of tutorials from internet, but finding the best tutorials is not a easy job.

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Flash CS5: Code Snippets

Easily click and insert code for your Flash projects. Users can also save code snippets for future use.

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Flash CS5: Code Completion

This tutorial covers some of the new scripts pane features. Use third party external classes in Flash CS5.

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Flash CS5: Text Engine

The typography advances in Flash CS5 are impressive. The Text Layout Framework makes it easier to manage text in Flash. There are also new ligatures, and new paragraph and layout options.

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Flash CS5: FLV Playback

The FLV playback component features new skins, a component parameters panel, and the ability to preview video.

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Working with Text in Flash, Part 2

In the second part of this tutorial, Tom Green gets some text moving using the new Bones tool from Flash CS4. Click here for part one . This video requires Adobe Flash Player .

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Working with Text in Flash, Part 1

Tom Green shows users how to format some creative text and put it into motion using Flash. Look for Part 2 of this tutorial coming soon. This video requires Adobe Flash Player .

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Distort with the Envelope Tool in Flash CS4

Distort shapes in Flash using the distort and envelope tools. This video requires Adobe Flash Player .

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