Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe talks with eWEEK about open-sourcing Flash, the new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), mobile technology and more. Lynch also talks of competing with Microsoft Silverlight and Expression and possibly with Google Chrome.Kevin
Lynch, Adobe's chief technology officer and senior vice president,
Experience & Technology Organization, oversees Adobe’s experience
design and core technology across business units. This role includes
driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across
desktops and devices, including Adobe Flash Player, PDF (Portable
Document Format), Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, the cross-operating system
application runtime that bridges the computing power and data
capabilities of the desktop with the real-time dynamic capabilities of
the Web. Lynch sat down for an interview with eWEEK Senior Editor
Darryl K. Taft at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Emerging
Technology conference in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 25.
Q: What stands out to you about Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), which you just announced the other day?
A: Well, the integration between all the tools is
something that we did when we brought Macromedia and Adobe together.
And with CS3 we were able to do some of that integration, but with CS4
we were able to dramatically move the integration along. The other
thing is with Flash Player 10 we added a lot of new innovative
expressiveness inside that release. That includes things like filter
effects, so you can take the same language used in After Effects to do
production time video effects -- so you're able to do that now live at
runtime in the Flash Player. So that's a really big change in the
ability to make those effects interactive if you decide to change them
later. But it's a lot of tooling inside the Flash Player.
The other thing is we've integrated 3-D effects in Flash Player 10,
so you can now do 3-D transformations and you can have a lot of great
3-D control, and across CS4 3-D is a pervasive element of the tooling.
Even within Photoshop you can bring in a 3-D model now and you can
actually paint in 3-D on the model. And that is amazing to see that
work.
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