Adobe Launches New Web Site Creativity with LiveMotion Over 360,000 Downloads of Public Beta Sets Stage for First Customer Shipment of Product Adobe Systems has been showing off it's LiveMotion software, a new Web graphics and animation tool for professional Web designers and developers. LiveMotion allows Web designers and developers to work with maximum efficiency and productivity while exercising unlimited creative freedom by offering intuitive and flexible features. For example, users have the ability to draw or import vector images, independently animate an object's attributes directly within the object-based timeline, use named labels to cue events, and assign interactive behaviors to individual objects. LiveMotion works with time-based rather than frame-based animation, and it supports native layered Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files. Additionally, LiveMotion offers extreme flexibility by offering output options to a wide range of graphics formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, Photoshop, and the popular SWF format. LiveMotion will also support the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format in a future release of the product. LiveMotion is tightly integrated with Adobe's family of professional Web design tools for the Web and dynamic media, including Adobe GoLive , Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effects. Adobe LiveMotion 1.0 is available for an estimated street price of U.S. $299. http://www.adobe.com/LiveMotion/ Sent in by: Louise Miller Web Design, Business, Internet, Web, ISP, graphics utilities, html, - 5/29/00 Back to the Topic Index