Adobe Illustrator CS4
That makes me especially happy to tell you that the Illustrator CS4 upgrade offers a little bit of everything: entirely new features and significant enhancements that will appeal both to longtime users and to people migrating from FreeHand. And, probably the most impressive of all to me, a collection of “little things” give Illustrator an overall polished feel.
Sound the trumpets! Release the balloons! The most requested Illustrator feature of all time -- multiple artboards -- has finally arrived. A single document can now contain up to 100 artboards, and each artboard can be of its own size and orientation (they can even overlap each other). Each Illustrator document contains a single large overall “canvas” where you can easily manage all of your artboards, using Illustrator’s new Artboard tool.
When the Artboard tool is selected, Illustrator switches to Artboard Edit Mode, allowing you to move, copy, add, or delete artboards. A toggle lets you specify whether the artwork on an artboard moves along with the artboard, or whether artboards move independently. The improved Smart Guides feature (covered later in this review) also works on artboards, making it easy to arrange them.
Because you need to be in Artboard Edit Mode in order to manage artboards, I find that artboards never get in the way of my work -- they are there when I need it, and don’t bother me when I don’t.
Most importantly, artboards act just like pages do -- you can print and export just the pages you need, and creating a multi-page PDF document to show ideas or concepts to a client works as you’d expect. You can even place multi-page native Illustrator documents into Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash. The multiple artboard feature is intuitive and easy to use, and it allows you to easily manage artwork across entire campaigns, all within a single document.
Expressive Drawing, without the Excessive Expletives
When talking to professional artists, animators, and illustrators, I’ve found that many prefer drawing in Photoshop or Painter because those programs allow the pros to more easily express their creativity. Illustrator’s anchor points and control handles can get in the way. Live Paint (added in CS2) does help, but you still have to draw the art before you can begin coloring it. And while Illustrator does have a pressure-sensitive calligraphic brush, the brush strokes don’t work with the Live Paint feature.
When talking to professional artists, animators, and illustrators, I’ve found that many prefer drawing in Photoshop or Painter because those programs allow the pros to more easily express their creativity. Illustrator’s anchor points and control handles can get in the way. Live Paint (added in CS2) does help, but you still have to draw the art before you can begin coloring it. And while Illustrator does have a pressure-sensitive calligraphic brush, the brush strokes don’t work with the Live Paint feature.
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