Sometimes when large companies buy cool smaller products, it is not a great thing for the future of the product.
Not so for Macromedia Flash.
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, the first version of Flash released under the Adobe name, is a huge step up from the former Macromedia product, which is used to build dynamic, interactive content for Web pages, mobile devices and online games.
Adobe has made a number of improvements in its flagship products such as Photoshop and Illustrator, and this one now joins the fold as a requirement for medium to advanced Web developers.
In Flash CS3, Adobe unveils a newly revamped interface, with cool features such as object alignment and scaling, which are accessed using panels much like those in Photoshop.
The best part of the product is a very impressive integration with Adobe Illustrator. Importing from Illustrator now preserves an impressive amount of attributes. The integration with Photoshop also is admirable.
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I am far from skilled with Flash in its current version but I picked up the basics in an hour or two of fiddling based on previous incarnations.
This version's gains make it a great upgrade at $199 from previous versions. New installs cost $699, though there also are some cheaper academic versions for students and teachers as well.
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