Getting Started

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 provides a comprehensive authoring environment for creating digital animation and interactive Web sites. Flash is widely used to create engaging applications rich in video, sound, graphics, and animation. You can create content in Flash or import it from other Adobe applications such as Photoshop or Illustrator, quickly design simple animations, and use Adobe ActionScript 3.0 to develop sophisticated interactive projects.

But Adobe Flash Professional is just one product among a suite of Flash CS5 tools. In addition to Flash Professional, Adobe offers Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder. Flash Catalyst is a design tool for rapidly creating expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing ...

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