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of the Art Awards
Best
Art & Design Products of the Year
Best Web Animation Tool
Macromedia's final award for the night goes to Flash 5. I've barely begun to get
into this latest version, but it boggles the mind that so much can be created
and then viewed by so many people and with such small file sizes. This tool is
everything Web. Whatever you think about the interface versus competing programs,
there is no denying that Flash is the most powerful of the bunch.
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in release 5, Flash brings users unparalleled power to create interactive presentations
for the Web with powerful scripting, a more refined interface and incredible compression
capabilities. This things definitely goes non-Euclidean in terms of file size
geometry. I still can't figure out why I can import JPEGs into the program and
have my final output significantly smaller (with no loss of quality) than each
of the individual files taken separately—even compared with files created
in Fireworks. Significantly. Well, whatever the voodoo Macromedia's putting over
on my computer, kudos to the skilled software designers at Macromedia who continue
make designers' lives easier with their outstanding efforts.
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