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Six ways Flash CS4 Professional saves you time and money





Animate in fewer steps Time-saver


Animate objects with a single click. Add motion tweens in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional without hand-creating keyframes or writing a line of code. This efficient new animation model means there's never been a better time to try your hand at Flash.



Fine-tune animations fast Time-saver


Quickly tune motions, transformations, color effects, and more with the intuitive Motion Editor panel. Adjust simple Bezier curves to control changes between keyframes. What once required painstaking hours of work is made faster with this single easy-to-use panel.
Save hours of work with prebuilt animations Time-saver


Jump-start your project with prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets with others to save animation time.
Create chain-like animations in a snap Time-saver


Skip tedious script writing to create chain-like animations. With the Bones tool, quickly draw links between symbols and apply inverse kinematics without code. Then manipulate the combined actions of your animations with ease using the Motion Editor panel.

Intuitively achieve 3D motion Time-saver


Animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D transformation and rotation tools — no handwritten scripting required. Apply local or global transformation to any object.
Turn symbols into instant design tools Time-saver


Apply symbols in a variety of ways: Quickly create kaleidoscope-like effects and apply fills using the Deco tool, or randomly spray symbols across any defined area using the Spray Brush.




Third-party research and resources


Benchmarking research for web


Improve profitability and move your projects from design and development to completion faster and more accurately.
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Decision-makers: Creative Suite 4 overall benchmarking research


Independent research from Pfeiffer Consulting shows that Adobe Creative Suite 4 delivers significant increases in productivity over previous releases, resulting in a return on investment of several thousand dollars per workstation per year.
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Benchmarking research for other creative professionals


See additional Creative Suite 4 time-savers, benchmarking research, and events for design, video, and digital imaging professionals.
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New series "Everyday Timesavers" on Adobe TV


Adobe Web Evangelists Greg Rewis and Paul Burnett show you the new timesaving features in Web Premium that will help you finish your projects faster and easier than ever before.
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What's New in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium eSeminar


Discover how to produce creative output across disciplines, without having to re-create assets; effortlessly transition fixed graphics — from print or web design — to interactive movies; and build on wireframes and prototypes and convert then to standards-compliant HTML and CSS.
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Business owners and decision-makers


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