Working last week in Illustrator and Flash gave me an idea about the design and interface of the two programs. Illustrator is to Flash as Photoshop is to After Effects.
Illustrator and Flash are primarily vector and have a hard interface. What I mean by hard in this case is you can only get to certain effects if certain conditions are met. You have difficulty finding effects unless you know where they are. Many commands are grayed out in these programs. This is like a programmer’s interface. Illustrator and Flash have a high learning curve.
Photoshop and After Effects are primarily raster and have an easy interface. In these softwares you can access most commands and effects all the time, there are multiple ways to access a command, and the interface is intuitive.
An advantage of Flash is that it can produce scalable compact online files. After Effects files are much larger. After Effects can produce movie and effects content wonderfully and can be learned faster than Flash, but it can’t produce interactive content.
An advantage of Illustrator is that it can produce and edit scalable vector files which can be imported to Flash or After Effects. The color settings also used to be better for printing than Photoshop I think. This is my opinion of the softwares.
Art 402: Edward Perkins
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