New Killer Features in Illustrator CS5

The new Illustrator CS5 has been released with new features to speed up your work. Draw 3D buildings with perspective grids, paint vectors with natural media brushes and so much more possibilities in Illustrator CS5. So let's take a look at what the new version has to offer.

Perspective Drawing

The new perspective grids will allow you to draw accurate 1, 2, and 3 points perspective in Illustrator CS5. This allows you to create realistic depth and buildings with the easy snap on grids. Objects like text and symbols can also be easily placed into perspective. You will definitely love this feature.

Crisp Pixel Graphics for Mobile

Drawing pixels in vectors? Mobile game designers will definitely appraise this new feature. The new pixel grid allows you to draw perfect aligning pixels. You can zoom in and check every single pixel in your artwork.

Multiple Artboard Enhancements

Now you can work on 100 artboards in a single file in Adobe illustrator CS5. The new multiple artboard features make it easy to stay organized and you can also set the view you want for each artboard. This makes working with multiple artboards much simpler than before.

Better Stroke Controls

It isn't easy to apply dashes to strokes in the past but with the new stroke features, you will be able to create dashes so much easier. Additional features include new width handles to adjust stroke widths and precise positioning of art brushes.

Enhanced Gradients and Transparency

The new gradients will allow you to control your gradients directly. It also gives you the ability to control the transparency of individual colors in your gradient. With this feature, there is no need for clipping mask on gradients to create transparent gradients in Illustrator.

Natural Vector Brush Strokes

Drawing realistic paintings in vectors is never possible without the new bristle brush. The new bristle brush lets you choose from a variety of natural media brushes. You will be able to draw expressive paintings with the new bristle brush. The transparency options let you create natural blending in your drawings.

Blob Brush

The new blob brush will make sketching easier. It generates a clean single vector shape which makes drawing in computer feel so natural. Combine it will the eraser and smooth tools and you can create a beautiful drawing in no time.

New Advanced Typography

You will now be able to layout text and paragraphs neatly in Illustrator with the new advanced typography tool. It comes with more powerful controls for paragraph and character styles and more support for Open Type fonts.

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The New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5

Adobe Illustrator CS5 is the newest in the Adobe Illustrator line. The previous version offered many great features but what does the CS5 bring to the table? Let's take a look at some of the new features in Adobe's graphic and illustration program.

The one thing that stands out right from the get-go is the multiple artboards feature. This new features allows you to grab any existing artboards and combine it in one document. You can edit them any way you want just like you can do as layers. Up to 100 artboards can be used on one document and you can add, edit, delete, and resize them as well. This is an expansion of the feature that was in Adobe Illustrator CS4.

Another new feature is the Shape Builder tool. You can use this tool to really edit your images without relative ease. You'll be able to overlap shapes, get rid of parts that you don't need, combine different shapes, and fill out any areas very easily. This feature is very helpful if you're trying to design logos and advertising campaign.

The third new feature is the drawing enhancements that have been made. This feature allows you to draw inside a shape or image. If any of your drawing makes it outside, it will be automatically set so that any drawing outside of the shape will be removed. This allows you to spend less time editing your work and will help you create artwork faster.

The fourth new feature is the exciting bristle brush painting. With the bristle brush selected, you can choose from different shapes and sizes. This looks like you've just hand painted something with a real wet brush. It creates a really unique look to your work and you can imagine all the different designs you can create with the new brush.

The fifth new feature is the perspective drawing tools. To start, you can manipulate the grid and choose the vanishing points. Once you have everything set the way you want it, you can start using artwork and set it at different points of the grid. The really unique thing about this feature is that you can put a graphic on the grid and the perspective of the original image will change according to a distance.

For example, if you have a posted on a building grid, it would look much different if it was in the outer edges than closer to the inner edges of the wall. What the perspective features does is change the view of the image according to the distance so that you don't have to create the original image in relation to the perspective.

So those are the 5 new features in Adobe Illustrator CS5. There are many more new features that have been added but it's a huge list to go over. The 5 features in this article are what stand out the most in the CS5. The CS5 is bound to amaze designers with all the new tools available to them.

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