The first time I used Flash was around 13 years ago. It was version 3 and Flash was hailed as the fancy new vector based animation tool that would soon take the web design world by storm. Over the years, Flash has grown into a fully-fledged rich application development tool, packed to the brim with ActionScript goodness.

What a lot of people seem to be forgetting though, is how much Flash is still a designer’s tool, letting us create artwork and animations the old-fashioned draw-and-move-around way.

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