Adobe Illustrator CS5

Get the possibility of developing impressive vector illustrations for any project you want. World’s greatest professionals give preference to Adobe Illustrator CS5 for its unbeatable accuracy and functionality of drawing tools, efficient and creative brushes, advanced range of tools that saves time plus the integration with Adobe CS Live.

Adobe Illustrator CS5, represented within the series of Creative Suite 5, features advanced tools for sketching. CS5 users allowed to control it’s wide at any point of path, alignit’s parts, add arrowheads right from Stroke bar and control how brushes stretch along the path. New brush Bristle Brush simulates real brush sketches. To get more accurate results users can adjust the characteristics of bristle – size, length, wide, shape, density, etc.

Using new tools for perspective drawing users can add a third dimension to their projects. When working with perspective designer allowed to dynamically relocate, scale, copy and change the size of objects, text and even symbols. Artboard tool that came up in last version of Adobe Illustrator was improved. Artboard areas can now be organized, named and displayed in more convenient ways. In addition, operations with different components of project were simplified to deliver more efficiency.

Top new features:

Perspective drawing
Use perspective grids for drawing shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, and 3-point linear perspectives. The new Perspective Grid tool allows user to turn on a grid that supports drawing directly on planes of true perspective. The new Perspective Selection tool allows objects to be moved, scaled, duplicated, and transformed dynamically in perspective. Easily move and duplicate objects from one plane to another.

Create objects in flat space and then apply them to a perspective plane, where they will correctly transform in shape. This works well with symbols, in that you can place easily reapeatable instances onto the perspective grid and see the symbols "in back" recede to give you the look of realistic depth and distance. You can use the perspective grid to resize objects; you can even work with live text in perspective.

Beautiful strokes
In Illustrator CS5, lots of new features have been added to make designing with strokes even more powerful and flexible. The core drawing tools within Illustrator merit attention every software release, and with Illustrator CS5 there are five significant updates that new and long-time users will appreciate. You can control stroke width, dashes, arrowheads, and how brushes stretch along a path. And improvements in corner handling mean that stroke shapes behave predictably in tight angles or around sharp points.

Brush

Paint with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes. The new Bristle Brush provides breakthrough control of painting. You can set bristle characteristics such as size, length, thickness, and stiffness. Set brush shape and bristle density. And set paint opacity, which uses transparency variations to simulate lifelike blending. When you have chosen the perfect characteristics for your Bristle Brush, you can save it for later use.

With the Bristle Brush you can achieve the expressiveness of natural media like watercolors and oils--but with the scalability and editability of vectors. Get the most out of the Bristle Brush using a tablet with a Wacom 6D Art Pen, which responds automatically to pressure, bearing, and tilt, plus provides 360-degree barrel rotation and an accurate brush preview.

Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices
Create vector objects precisely on the file's pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned artwork. When you're designing artwork for Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flash Professional software, and Adobe Dreamweaver® software, it's critical that raster images look sharp, especially standard web graphics at 72ppi resolution. Pixel alignment is also useful for video resolution rasterization control. And in Illustrator CS5, new web graphics tools include type enhancements. Choose one of four text anti-aliasing options for each of your Illustrator text frames.

Pixel grid alignment
Generate clean, sharp raster graphics by turning on Align To Pixel Grid. Objects are automatically nudged to the closest pixel edge when you create them or apply transformations. Now, a one-pixel stroke won't straddle two pixels and get blurred or lost with anti-aliasing. Zoom in to see the grid and watch your objects align as you work. The alignment control is located in the Transform panel.

Text anti-aliasing
Create readable text for the web, mobile devices, handsets, gaming devices, or any destination where you need to generate raster images from your Illustrator artwork. Four anti-aliasing options now appear in the Illustrator CS5 Character panel. Choose among Sharp, Crisp, Strong, and Smooth, which match the text anti-aliasing rules in Adobe Photoshop® software. You can apply a different rule to each text frame in your artwork, and your specifications are saved with the file.

Multiple artboards enhancements
Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes all in one document, organized and viewed the way you want. New and greatly advanced artboard options in Illustrator CS5 include a full Artboards panel, where you can name and reorder artboards. Quickly add, delete, and duplicate them using panel controls or keyboard shortcuts.

You can also create an artboard inside an art board to serve as a crop area so it's easy to export just a piece of a composition. Save, export, and print artboards independently or together - as a series of files or as a single, multipage PDF file.

Shape Builder tool
Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes on your artboard. Drag the cursor across overlapping shapes and paths to create unique objects and add color without going through multiple tools and panels. Users can quickly unite, exclude, trim, and more.

In Pathfinder panel, you will find the Shape Builder tool. It enables merging objects, breaking overlapping shapes into distinct objects, subtracting areas, and more.

Coloring fills and strokes is easier now. The Shape Builder tool includes interactive color selection for quickly filling closed or partially closed areas of artwork. Options include automatic gap detection and choosing whether or not to automatically fill new shapes.

Drawing enhancements
Work more efficiently using everyday tools. Improvements to familiar drawing tools make using Illustrator CS5 resultant and productive. Instant masking using Draw Inside mode and joining paths with a keystroke are just two of many other enhancements that hasten your routine tasks.

Resolution-independent effects
See raster effects such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures maintain a consistent appearance across media. Now create work for different types of output and know that popular raster effects maintain an ideal appearance no matter how your resolution settings change - from print to web to video. You can even go up to a higher resolution. Work quickly and efficiently with low-resolution artwork and then scale up when you're ready to go to a finished output such as high-quality print.

Integration with Adobe CS Review

System requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM
• 3.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features