Hi everyone!
I’m going to be in London on Wednesday 17th, so our next meeting will need to be postponed until Wednesday 24th. It will be well worth the wait though—we are going to be exploring a great CS5 application, Adobe Flash Catalyst.
Not heard of it? I’ll let Adobe explain what it does:
Adobe Flash Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code. Create interactive portfolios, product guides, microsites, site navigation, interfaces for RIAs and more.
For our purposes, it’s interesting because it enables us to design richly interactive websites in Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator—and take advantage of ActionScript—without requiring us to learn how to code!
At the moment Flash Catalyst is available here as a free public beta. It already allows us to create some pretty exciting interactive content. I’ll be showing you how to create a project (from start to finish) during the session. I hope to see you there…
In the meantime, don’t forget about our CS4 competition. We are going to be giving away a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium, or Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium—whichever you prefer. The deadline will be March 10th. I will write a separate post in greater detail, but just to remind you, Jamie and I would like you to create a filter using Filter Forge (any version). We would prefer you write the filter from scratch (but you don’t have to), and it can do anything you like. We might ask you to explain how it works, so if you are modifying an existing filter make sure that you know how it works! We are looking forward to seeing what you produce : )
Cheers,
Lee.
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