{"id":15859,"date":"2009-06-01T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/06\/flash-catalyst-now-on-labs-free-training-available.html"},"modified":"2009-06-01T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:32:59","slug":"flash_catalyst_now_on_labs_free_training_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/flash_catalyst_now_on_labs_free_training_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Catalyst now on Labs; free training available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to turn Photoshop &amp; Illustrator designs into interactive compositions quickly, without coding, <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/flashcatalyst\/\">Adobe Flash Catalyst<\/a> is designed for you.  Catalyst imports PSD, AI, and Fireworks PNG files, then lets you assign behaviors including animations &amp; 3D effects.  A beta of the app is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/cfusion\/entitlement\/index.cfm?e=labs_flashcatalyst\">available for download<\/a> from Adobe Labs.<\/p>\n<p>To get up to speed quickly, check out Mordy Golding&#8217;s free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/flashcatalyst\">Flash Catalyst Beta Preview<\/a> video training course.  It&#8217;s an hour of solid material broken into task-oriented pieces, covering everything from designing in Photoshop to publishing your output.  (Props to Mordy &amp; the Lynda.com team for making this great resource available for free!)<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Flash Catalyst, Adobe Labs is hosting public beta releases of Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder) and the Flex 4 Framework.  Here&#8217;s the official blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flash Builder 4 is the next evolution of Flex Builder, and includes a long list of feature improvements, new data-centric development features, and a new design-develop workflow with Flash Catalyst. Flash Catalyst, also now available in public beta, is a new interaction design tool for rapidly building application user interfaces without coding. Both Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst are based on the updated Flex 4 framework, also available for beta download.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/flash\/\">Check it all out on Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to turn Photoshop &amp; Illustrator designs into interactive compositions quickly, without coding, Adobe Flash Catalyst is designed for you. Catalyst imports PSD, AI, and Fireworks PNG files, then lets you assign behaviors including animations &amp; 3D effects. A beta of the app is now available for download from Adobe Labs. To get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}