Re: FLASH: Best drawing/painting tools for flash

[Laura Mollett]

> I am searching for good drawing tools with which to create flash animations.

> I would be interested in hearing opinions of the major contenders in this

> area: Illustrator, Freehand, Photoshop. What's best for what, that kind of

> thing.


I actually end up using both illustrator and photoshop. And the tools within

flash itself. You might start by using the flash tools (it works great with

a tablet, other than a few driver glitches sometimes). If I'm asking someone

to provide illustrations that I know I'll be bringing into Flash - I ask for

illustrator - much nicer than having to trace bitmap. Probably Freehand

works better with Flash (more compatable) but what we have is Illustrator

and that seems to be what most of our clients etc. have as well (if they're

providing artwork). Unfortunately some things are just raster format, no

matter how much I'd rather have vectors, or sometimes someone wants an

effect that's very difficult to do in Illustrator (tho normally not

animated) - and then on to Photoshop.


Hope this helps,

 Laura


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