# Adobe Animate (Formerly Flash) got a nice visual refresh!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-animate-formerly-flash-got-a-nice-visual-refresh/641362>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 18, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-animate-formerly-flash-got-a-nice-visual-refresh/641362 "2019-12-18T05:29:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-animate-formerly-flash-got-a-nice-visual-refresh/641362/1 "2019-12-18T05:29:39Z")

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While I’ve pretty much switched to using Sketch for all of my illustrations, I have a ton of legacy content that I need to edit only in Animate. Today, when I launched it, the entire UI has been overhauled a bit:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/2X/6/62a7f1b99e0fe907d17967e5e00bb598ad88ebd0.jpeg)

This is really nice! I wonder when/if Dreamweaver will get some of these updates as well 😛

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**Author:** ![prg9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@prg9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prg9)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-animate-formerly-flash-got-a-nice-visual-refresh/641362/2 "2019-12-18T14:11:28Z")

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😜 Vive la Flash !

> [@kirupa](#):
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> I wonder when/if Dreamweaver will get some of these updates as well

🤔

It appears many users on the Adobe forums (a lot of discussions) feel that the writing is on the wall for Dreamweaver. Offering some pretty terse comments about its wayward development and lack of any real focus all while not really keeping up with current standards throughout the app. Look at the feature summaries of Dreamweaver over the last handful of years, its meh at best. Most of the web focused products at Adobe seem in question or disarray anymore really, with Dreamweaver seemingly leading the way.

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-animate-formerly-flash-got-a-nice-visual-refresh/641362/3 "2019-12-18T17:26:43Z")

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I am not surprised, for there aren’t too many people with my workflow where they use Dreamweaver as a visual document editor that _ **happens** _ to also do FTP syncing:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/2X/b/ba8fc60ab2c23d9b43adb6a3d110e4b0053f65d1.png)

At some point, I will need to migrate to a different workflow or (gulp!) a CMS like Wordpress.

👴

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**Author:** ![REB\_412](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/reb_412/32/9233_2.png) [@REB\_412](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REB_412)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-animate-formerly-flash-got-a-nice-visual-refresh/641362/4 "2019-12-19T19:21:54Z")

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I hope not and that Dreamweaver stays around for awhile.  
I still use Dreamweaver CS6 and it serves me well.