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Flash!!!

Use any other program and you will get cancer
of the clicky finger.

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Purple Onion, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 16:57, archived)

I'm a newbie to flash ( only loaded it once for a quick look )

but can you add layers and trace with flash? Interesting if you can as I have Macromedia Studio 8 sat here doing nothing.

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Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 16:58, archived)

yep - you can do all the layer stuff

tracing is a bit... odd, unless you just do freehand tracing

have a bash with it and see how it goes

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Reckless_Rik, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:04, archived)

Yes

you can add layers and trace but I don't recomend it for purely making still images. If you got studio then I assume freehand came with it, in which case I'd use that.

(grey.squirrel, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:04, archived)

no freehand

although it's easy to get. I have Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute, and FlashPaper in Studio 8.

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Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:11, archived)

what on earth is flash paper?

*nips to google*

edit: seems interesting, but it won`t let me see any of the examples since flash player 7 (mx2004 version) isn`t bloody good enough, and out of principle they can fuck off :)

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Reckless_Rik, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:14, archived)

Don't know

but contact me privately if you require instructions on where to steal it from.

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Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:16, archived)

pfft

I was gay and bought studio 2004mx - was considering quitting the job and freelancing doing web sites and back end programming and stuff, but in the end I stuck with working for THE MAN

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Reckless_Rik, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:18, archived)

If you can wait until

the Man Utd match goes off ( because I am streaming it from ESPN China for my dad ) you may get me on MSN and I'll send you Flash8 pro and a serial number via MSN if you like. 110MB @ 55Kb/s max.

Edit:/ doh what am I saying? Just download the trial yourself and I'll give you a serial number, they have more bandwidth than me.

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Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:22, archived)

you`re a bad man

ta for the offer, but I`ll stick with the legit copy so I can e-mail Macromedia regularly and tell them that their software is flakey shite

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Reckless_Rik, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:24, archived)

I'm only half a bad man.

I buy all my software legit mainly for the support but I am also an old fashioned socialist and believe in sharing what I have with others if they can't afford them or think that food is more important. I make no apologies for this and will probably get done again ( was fined in 1999 for distributing abandonware, wankers don't care these days )

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Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:27, archived)

I've trying out Flash 8

and I see little difference, except that it
allows you to trace jpg and gifs without
converting the to bmps.

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Purple Onion, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:24, archived)

it has blur effects in it I think

but they may be in mx2004 ... as you may have seen, I`m not a flash expert :)

dreamweaver is quite handy though, so for the cost of the two apps, it was cheaper just to buy the studio (he keeps telling himself to justify the bloody price)

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Reckless_Rik, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:26, archived)

damn, you're right.

I hadn't even noticed.

"only works on text, movie clips and buttons"

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Purple Onion, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:34, archived)

Yeah. Once you get used to it,

it is great for quick and dirty drawing.
Then you can export it as a png and add
blur effects or whatever in photoshop.

If you're a purist, I suppose Illustrator
or FreeHand is better.

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Purple Onion, Sun 11 Dec 2005, 17:09, archived)