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Flash is a vector based web design tool
providing high quality viewing regardless of the viewer's
window size. Flash can be used to create navigation interfaces,
technical illustrations, long form animations and other
effective interfaces.
Animation has an astonishing power to bring
life to the computer screen. There are ranges of techniques
offered by flash to animate interface elements efficiently.
From simply giving life and motion to your existing text
and images to designing and creating specific elements.
Sound effects can deliver content, reinforce
action and contribute to the overall style of presentation.
It can make or break the tone of an interactive product,
and have a tremendous influence on the users perception
of the content. The integrated sound controls provided
within Flash 4 offer new opportunities for the effective
use of sound within presentations.
Macromedia published their Flash file format
as an open Web standard last year, allowing other companies
to both export the Flash file format or playback Flash
content within their application. Macromedia has also
made numerous agreements to ensure the ubiquity to Flash,
which now ships with most leading operating systems, media
players and browsers, RealPlayer, and current versions
of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
For Macintosh, Windows, Java, Linux and Solaris.
Flash 4 received Computer Arts Star Award
for best web content creation tool.
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