Saturday, May 14, 2011

Difference between Adobe Photoshop and Adboe Fireworks


Difference between Adobe Photoshop and Adboe Fireworks
Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop are among the most widely used applications for web designing but designers have always been wondering about the positive and negative aspects of these two as it is quite difficult to decide which one is better. If you take a close look at the two, you can obviously perform all the tasks in one way or another in both the applications. You can edit graphics, pictures and web pages in Photoshop and Fireworks both. Here we will take a look at the both to determine which one is more suitable under which circumstances.
Photoshop as the name suggests is basically a tool to edit graphics and images. Primarily it wasn't created to handle graphics and photo editing but with the passage of time and a heavy involvement of graphics in web designs paved the path for addition of web designing features and options in Photoshop. Fireworks, on the other hand, is a tool primarily developed to deal with web designing. As a general rule, Photoshop can be used for web designing but it is better to use Fireworks since it is light weight and handles the web designing tasks better than Photoshop. However you can use a combination of the both as well to handle edit and create web graphics.
According to me Adobe will make Fireworks a special application to design graphics for web, while Adobe Photoshop will be useful for Image Editing, Lay-outing, and Post-Production Tasks in future. Adobe has strengthened the Photoshop with more than ever 3D Tools and Menus. It indicates that Adobe is empowering Photoshop as a future application for After Effects not for web as Adobe hasn’t provided any noticeable changes and tools for web designers.
My analysis says, how one will manage graphics related task in Photoshop if ‘Save for web and devices…” option get removed by Adobe in coming years from this software. The day will come when Fireworks will be used by each and every designer in the world.
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Difference between Adobe Flash and Flex


Difference between Adobe Flash and Flex

By now almost all the Internet users and the web designers must have heard about the Flash Software or application. This blog is especially meant for Web designers, Flash developers, Action script Programmer who are working on Flash and flex program, in this blog I have drawn a brief comparison on Flash and Flex Program. 

Flash was originally developed for and used as a medium for vector-based animations, Flash is limited to design and create timeline based animations and if one want to create dynamic application or visualization services, it would be a very time consuming task in flash while Flex is based on components, Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems on runtimes. Flex is a component oriented framework with various client side and server-side technologies. While Flash is a timeline centric application not a framework unlike Flex.

As such these courses does not require any prerequisite qualification, a person having web designing background or an individual familiar with Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Illustrator or Fireworks software can pursue with Flash course but to pursue with Flex Application one need to have knowledge of Flash , ActionScript 3.0, and OOPs basics, etc. 

Institute like ADMEC Multimedia is giving highly advanced and professional training for Flash, ActionScript, XML, Components in Flash, and Flex programs, also the institute is offering weekend classes for professionals who can’t take classes on weekdays.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Differences between Flash and Flex


Differences between Flash and Flex

Now a days, Flash and Flex both are on boom because both applications have been providing surprisingly powerful options from more than a decade to the designers and developers. I love to talk about one of my favorite subjects i.e. Flash and Flex. I am very much aware about Flash and ActionScript because my last 8 yrs were fully devoted to these subjects. As every designer start to learn and work from the basics, so I started my Flash career from Flash version 4 and l was lucky to get a chance to work with the debut version of ActionScript that was 1.0.

After a mammoth experience of Flash, ActionScript, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and DHTML, I decided to dive deeply into the world of Flex Framework. I noticed few things in my giant working experience about Flash and Flex, so I am going to drilling down please read carefully.

Introduction to Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is an industry leading authoring environment or integrated development environment for producing expressive or user engaging interactive contents. Earlier Flash was a product of Macromedia, after acquisition by Adobe in 2004 Flash has got right team and right tools on the time. Flash can produce contents for immersive experience across the desktops, tablets, smart-phones, and televisions etc.

Some examples of projects can be done in Adobe Flash:
1.       Web Advertisements
2.       Web Headers
3.       Animated E-cards
4.       Presentations
5.       Websites
6.       XML Galleries and websites
7.       Flash Games etc.
Click to see live flash projects.
So, Flash provides tools and panels to create highly creative contents with some of the advanced logics in it. One can accomplish any creative or logically rich task using its Timeline and OOP’s programming. As flash is a 2d vector based animation program used to add animation, video and interactivity to web pages.

Introduction to Adobe Flex
Adobe Flex is an SDK or Software Development Kit launched by adobe to develop or deploy Rich Internet Applications or (RIAs) for flash platform. Projects are completed in Flex are cross platform and also can run on stand alone player i.e. Adobe AIR on Desktops, UNIX, LINUX, IMAC etc. To make easy the programming metaphor for the developers, adobe launched a very common language workflow i.e. MXML and XML based markup language.

Application Development Process
1.       Build an user interface using a set of pre-programmed components
2.       Change the appearance of the interface using styles and themes
3.       Establish data connections
4.       Modify database using forms or DataGrid
5.       Add Charts and Graphs
6.       Add dynamic behavior (one part of the application interacting with another, for example)
7.       Define and connect to data services as needed
8.       Test and debug code
9.       Deploy application to the Web Server
Projects can be done in Flex using various technologies:
  • Product Configuration
  • Consumer Application
  • Media and Publishing
  • Education
  • Social Networking
  • Business Productivity
  • Data Visualization
  • Financial Services
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Pointing out some of the major differences between Flash and Flex:
After a close introduction of both technologies, now u may have an approximate idea about the approaches and capabilities of these programs.
As we read, Flash is an animation program along with various features and ActionScript. While Flex is Software Development Kit to develop and deploy various intelligent applications.

Flex is a component oriented framework with various client side and server-side technologies. While Flash is a timeline centric application not a framework unlike Flex.
Many languages and third party features make Adobe Flex a Framework for example ActionScript, MXML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, ASP, ASP.NET, CFML, and JSP etc. 

These technologies are the pedestal for Flex and base for the today’s web development and design industry. So, u can make a more robust application in flex using all. These technologies making easy to create Consumer Applications, Media and Publishing Contents, Social Networking Features, Data Visualization Services, Financial Services etc.
 
While Flash is limited to design and create timeline based animations and if one want to create dynamic application or visualization services, it would be a very time consuming task in flash. Hence, in flash you can deploy many technologies as PHP, MySQL, and CSS etc but you can not feel a component oriented environment when you work in flash.

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