Macromedia Flash

It's a very powerful tool. This is the perfect software for me to create my own animations and photo slide shows. I downloaded this of limewire a few days ago. I havent mastered this program yet, but I'll keep reading the online tutorials. If anyone gets this, make sure ya really want to learn this because its kinda complicated.

All I can say is that it is a fun program since it allows you to be so creative. There is a significant learning curve if you are going to use it to its full potential. For a long time I just used it as an introduction to a website. As bandwidth became more common this product has evolved to do much more things than just simple introductions and animations. I have created CDs with this product that were in no way something that would be used on the web. Yeah, that's right... you can use it like a programming language, burn it to CD and have a standalone program without even being on the net. When I finally came to the conclusion that this program is on the professional level is when a textbook author hired me to create a highly interactive interpretation of his printed book. This took a number of months but more importantly this guy was a real micro-manager. He was a control freak. He had very specific thing the way he wanted it to work and very specific ways the information should b... Read more

Great for serious creators as well as amateur doodlers.

Rating 4,6 ::great web animation/website producing software. Lots of features for animation.The only gripe is that it can be RAM/CPU cycle hungry. I recommend running win2000/XP (or on linux with most of the vutual machine/win-Lin environments aval.) with more than 128MB RAM/ 750+MHZ PIII/AMD duron/atlon Processor and 16MB Video memory for graphic intensive websites.

awesome - high tech companies use the Flash