No more proof is needed than this..
"After Effects is the best way to set
<paraindent><param>out</param>your Photoshop and Illustrator
images into motion and quickly
prepare them for the Web. It's easy
to create animated GIFs from your
After Effects files."
Tom Petrillo (left)
Adobe Market Specialist
Peter Svensk (right)
Adobe Applications Engineer
http://www.adobe.com/newsfeatures/comdex/behindscenes.html
In case you don't know, Illustrator is the greatest design tool for
illustration professionals in the world, PhotoShop doesn't need
explanation, and After Effects is a compositing tool for video
professionals.
Now reduced to making animated gifs.... </paraindent>
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** History 101**
Hiroshima 45 - Chernobyl 86 - Windows 95
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"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste,
they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is, I
don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way.
I have a problem with the fact that they just make
really third rate products."
Steve Jobs, Triumph of the Nerds, PBS Documentary
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