The Flex Skin Design Extensions are a set of extensions for various Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications (notably Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks) that allow you to easily create skins for various Flex components and other assets (such as cursor manager, drag manager, etc.)
To quote the Flex Skin Design Extensions page on the Adobe Labs site:
Flex 3 helps designers and developers to more easily work together by enabling you to import skins that were created in the Adobe Creative Suite 3 products, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Fireworks. New extensions are available below for each of these CS3 products that will allow you to create and export Flex component skins that can then be consumed using the Flex Builder Skin Import Wizard.
Basically, the workflow is install the extension for the various products (each extension’s install instructions are different, so make sure you read the read me files), create a skin in CS3 program, and then import the skin into Flex Builder using the super-handy Import Skin Artwork wizard? Sound easy? You betcha!
Since I have Flash CS3 Professional installed and handy at home, we’ll take a look at the workflow.
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