I like photoshop, but I love fireworks! They better not mess with my fireworks!!

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That ignorant mentality has professed… granted, LiveMotion was an awesome attempt, as was Atmosphere; Adobe IS interested in getting into the media realm, and this is a great way. Now that we have the design tools and the media deployment tools, Desktop media will get a huge boost.

One of my hopes was that Microsoft would release some tools for designers to make the most of Avalon. The biggest gripe I had with it is that although Flashers are hip to multimedia, the barrier of entry is still that it requires a good sense of design, not just usability. Expecting designers to learn Visual Studio is ridicolous.

I think the same thing here; now a lot of these AfterEffects people can deploy video easier and stop dealing with those ridicolously expensive server solutions that don’t really do anything; they just deploy their video to the web, plain and simple.

I’m hoping that same ‘designer accessibility’ will play out here as well and empower them to help us Flashers deploy some really great rich desktop content.

Currently, I use Photoshop + Fireworks + Flash to get a design…removing the middleman would be GREAT!

THAT smoothing of the process, not just bridging the gaps, but solidifying and smoothing those crossing of developer chasms will be great for Central’s future.

You and I both know that Central’s 1up on all 3rd party projectors was it’s art direction; Adobe knows art direction.