The 5 best new features in Flash CS3

[mandy]

1. Import Photoshop Files
The best thing about Flash CS3? It integrates seamlessly with Photoshop. Flash now comes with an import wizard that allows you to import Photoshop's PSD files and Illustrator's AI files quickly and easily. All of the layers are kept in tact, and you can modify each layer in the import wizard to be brought in as a vector, a bitmap, or text. You can even choose to import the layers as Flash layers (the default) or as individual keyframes. With this, you could do an animation in Photoshop or Illustrator using the layers, then import it into individual keyframes so that you had an instant Flash animation. The importer gives Flash developers a lot of flexibility in exactly how you want those assets to behave and appear, so the workflow from Photoshop to Flash is near perfect...

full article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=336

[misteroriginal]

Great features, but no surprises (since Adobe bought Macromedia). Better integration with Adobe products is the basic summary. Who'd have guessed?