For Immediate Release
Longmont, Colorado – July 31, 2002 - Media Lab today announced that their popular
Photoshop plug in PSD2FLA is now available for Mac OS X. PSD2FLA provides a
new solution to a common Macromedia Flash development bottleneck - how to quickly
convert a layered Photoshop design to a layered editable Flash document.
"Ever since we released PSD2FLA on the Windows platform, I've been asked almost daily, 'When will it be available for the Mac?'. In the last few months we've been porting our whole product line to OS X, and today is the day - it's here." said Tom Summerall, President of Media Lab, Inc.
PSD2FLA is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that lets Photoshop users save their designs directly as a Flash movie. The movies are saved in the editable .fla format so they can be opened and animated in Flash. The plug-in is smart, convenient, and fast.
"Right now, a designer who uses Photoshop and wants to convert that design to Flash has a lot of work in front of them," said Chris Perkins, CEO of Media Lab. "The individual layers all have to be exported from Photoshop, then re-imported into Flash, and the already-done work of laying them up has to be performed again. But with PSD2FLA, all of that is accomplished with the click of one button. It’ll even launch the completed .fla file in Flash for you."
Find complete details, including a working demo of the product, at http://www.medialab.com/psd2fla
Since PSD2FLA is a Photoshop plug in, users simply save their Photoshop file in Photoshop, select the File – Export – PSD2FLA menu and decide whether or not they want invisible Photoshop layers exported and the file to be opened in Flash. Once they click OK, the Flash file is built for them automatically. It is important to note that PSD2FLA builds useful editable Flash .fla files, not uneditable .swf files which Flash and other animation packages create for web playback.
To be candidates for PSD2FLA, Photoshop files should be saved in the RGB Image mode.
PSD2FLA 1.0.3 is available now via download. Introductory pricing for the download version is $US 89. PSD2FLA 1.0.3 can be ordered from Media Lab's online store at www.medialab.com/store or by phone at 800-282-5361. Visa, MasterCard and American Express are accepted.
Based in Longmont, Colorado, Media Lab publishes software used by graphic designers and web designers to create animated presentations and graphical web pages. Media Lab's award-winning web-page design tool PhotoWebber has received numerous favorable reviews since it was introduced in April, 2000. The company's multimedia design tools - PhotoCaster, AlphaMania, and Effects -- have been used to create pioneering special effects seen at the EPCOT Center at Disney World in Florida, in numerous music videos and in motion pictures such as Batman and Robin, Air Force One, and Armageddon. Media Lab can be reached via the web site at www.medialab.com, by email at sales@medialab.com, by phone at 800-282-5361 or 303-546-7929.
PSD2FLA is a trademark of Media Lab. All other trade names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Donna Druchunas or Tom Summerall - press@medialab.com