Perspective drawing, variable-width strokes, a new brush that lets you control bristle characteristics, and innovative ways to quickly build shapes, are among the new features in the comprehensive vector environment of industry-leading Illustrator CS5.
New perspective tools add an exciting dimension to Illustrator, eliminating the need to create your own horizon lines and vanishing points when you wish to draw a scene or an object in perspective. With the Shape Builder tool, you no longer use the Pathfinder panel - you simply sweep your cursor across overlapping objects to merge and divide shapes. And you can even paint watercolor strokes that remain vectors, now with new edge softness and subtle control of transparency. These powerful new features make Illustrator CS5 a must-have, but along with the dramatic advances, youll find great improvement to familiar favorites. Strokes now have fully controllable width handles, and the Draw Inside mode creates masks automatically when you draw or when you place an image - no extra clicks.
With enhanced integration among Adobe products, you can move easily between Illustrator CS5 and products, such as Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 software, where you can add interaction to your designs. And new CS Live online services provide effective collaboration, efficient reviews, and more.
Using Illustrator CS5, you can get the job done efficiently but beautifully, moving quickly from multiple ideas to multiple outputs with complete control, and delivering exactly what you had in mind.
With Adobe Illustrator CS5, you can:
Design with powerful creative tools. Take advantage of exceptional precision and power to create distinctive vector artwork. Draw accurately in 1-, 2-, and 3-point perspective using new perspective grids. Control stroke width using finely adjustable width handles, and paint natural textures with a realistic brush called the Bristle Brush. The new Shape Builder tool allows you to drag your cursor to quickly combine, edit, and fill objects. With superior drawing tools, painterly brushes, and more, you have practically infinite possibilities for unique and impactful design.
Work smoothly and efficiently. Speed up your day with innovations that encourage efficient ways of working. Multiple artboards now can be named, organized, and viewed more easily. New capabilities for drawing behind and inside other objects enable fast creation of complex designs with automatic masking and layer control. Join paths with one keystroke, and use 9-slice scaling on symbols. Get the job done using shortcuts and time-savers to quickly take multiple ideas to multiple outputs.
Deliver virtually anywhere. Incorporate vector artwork into essentially any project and deliver reliably across media. Take Illustrator work directly into Flash Catalyst and use roundtrip editing to perfect your interactions. Deliver pixel-aligned images for the web and raster effects that look fantastic on a wide variety of devices. For video, Illustrator vector tools are ideal for creating masks, motion paths, and resolution-independent layers to use in Adobe After Effects CS5 software. And use Adobe CS Review, part of the new Adobe CS Live online services, for online reviews from within Illustrator, enabling effective collaboration with teams worldwide.
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