Hello World

Usually I go on tirades about how much I hate Illustrator, but not today! Today we love Illustrator because of its (relatively) new (relatively) seamless integration with Flash.

I’m working on creating some Flash templates and the only thing I dislike more than working in Illustrator is working in the Flash environment. I think it’s because I don’t like that features I heart in Photoshop and InDesign are glaringly absent in those two programs (I will personally thank the Adobe designer who adds Vanishing Point to Illustrator. Seriously. I might even take them out to dinner.) But all that aside, it is still infinitely easier to lay something out in Illustrator and then bring it into Flash for animation.

I’d create a tutorial but a really wonderful one already exists here:

http://mrroggers.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/exporting-illustrator-layouts-to-flash/