Artboards can be named, reordered, added, duped, deleted, and rearranged with the new panel.
The multiple artboard features get some needed improvement by way of the new Artboards panel. This tool really requires a tablet for proper freehand use-with a tablet you can see the brush shape and angle. Of course, just like previous brushes, they can be applied to existing paths and shapes. This allows Photoshop-like brushes to be created and used with the Paintbrush tool (B) in Illustrator. The oft-forgotten Brush panel gets a fun, new type of brush: the Bristle Brush. A nice new feature is to have the arrowhead end at the path anchor point, rather than sticking beyond it. Compared to the old process of outlining a stroke, adding points, and then editing them with the Direct Selection tool (A), this tool is a big time saver.Īrrowheads have been added to the bottom of the Stroke panel and are much easier to implement now. The settings can even be saved as a stoke profile for future use. Stokes can be adjusted on one side of the path by holding-down the Option (PC: Alt) key and dragging. The Width tool (Shift-W) allows you to take a standard stoke and change the width dynamically by clicking on a stroke and dragging away from the center of the path. Variable-width stokes is one of the best improvements to happen to strokes in a long time. I wouldn’t necessarily upgrade just for it, but it certainly adds to the overall package. At first I thought this was a tool for those who didn’t like the Pathfinder panel, but the more I work with it, the more I like it. Think of the new Shape Builder tool (Shift-M) as “Live Paint meets Pathfinder.” You can work with selected shapes (much like Live Paint) to merge and subtract the overlapping areas (like the Unite and Minus Front options in Pathfinder). When moving or scaling perspective objects, you must be sure to use the Perspective Selection tool to keep the object in perspective. When a grid plane is active, many of the normal drawing tools work in perspective. The Perspective Grid tool adds a default grid to the page that can be visually modified. Two new tools have been added: The Perspective Grid tool (Shift-P) and the Perspective Selection tool (Shift-V). The Perspective tools are a welcome, if not overdue, addition to the Adobe Illustrator (AI) feature set-one wonders if this feature was on the drawing board for some time or was the technology a pick-up from Adobe FreeHand MX. Here are the top new features for Illustrator CS5 (a.k.a. This release has some nice features, making this an important upgrade for those using Illustrator for more artistic purposes-of course, many of those features are useful for graphic designers, too.
As the Creative Suite versions of the Adobe software mature, the list of new features for each program grows smaller, but the new features seem to be getting better.
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