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Review: Swish |
by:
Lala C. Ballatan |
Are you inbusy office and need to get web design jobs with complex text effects done immediately? Want to speed up your productivity but avoid working until Saturday afternoons breaking up text and hand tweening? Then, SWiSH,new standalone tool that creates great font effects and more by David Mitchie, presented duringFlash Forward twozerozerozero conference, is for you!.
So what’s new with SWiSH? This tool enables you to create buttons and banners inprogram itself. You can even create.SWF for importing into Flash for fast font effects. The “more” emphasis earlier is what’s coming up infuture of this product. Mitchie is hoping to releaseupdate of its first version in May that will allowuse of images. These plans for added functionality will give users more creativity in designing banners and navigation systems.
There are also future plans being expressed by Mitchie to support many offeatures in Flash today – this includes scripting, movie clips, audio, vector images and rollover buttons. Right now, withfirst version, you can use its maximum number of text effects tohilt. It will also speed up work productivity. With SWiSH, you can say good bye to all afternoon of breaking text up, making key frames and hand tweening – plenty of hard work but is not anywhere near our idea of creativity.
Use it by controlling allvarious attributes of each letter and click preview. After installing this software, in less than five minutes, you can produce real content for your sites. There may be arguments about how alleffects just look alike but remember that there are “industry standard” and “professional level” considerations on these things, just like in television and print. Using SWiSH allows you to produce your sites with that level of standard and expertise.
Currently, SWiSH doesn’t work in Mac but they are looking into creatingversion suitable withMac. Right now, it works on Windows ninefive+/NT/twozerozerozero only. Still, you can createfiles onPC and use.SWFs produced onMac, which means that you could create standard clips for your files and use them in your libraries. Other system requirements include Pentium onezerozero or better, threetwoMb of RAM, twofivesix color display or better. It does not require Flash to be installed, too.
Acquiring and using SWiSH is easy enough. You just go tosite and download its trial version. Until you getkey, it will scramble text when you export to SWF. Currently, SWiSH hasUS $threezero price tag, with free minor updates. Major updates would be around US $onezero –big difference inprice of Flash at US $twosevenfive. Need we say more? Try SWiSH and see for yourself! -threezero-
Aboutauthor:
Lala C. Ballatan istwosix year-old Communication Arts graduate, withmajor in Journalism. Right after graduating last onenineninenine, she worked for one year asclerk then becameResearch, Publication and Documentation Program Director atnon-government organization, which focuses onrights, interests and welfare of workers for about four years.
Book reading has always been her greatest passion -- mysteries, horrors, psycho-thrillers, historical documentaries and classics. She got hooked into it way back when she was butshy kid.
Her writing prowess began as early as she was onezero years old in girlish diaries. With writing, she felt freedom – to express her viewpoints and assert it, to bring out all concerns -- imagined and observed, to bear witness.
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