Adobe Illustrator CS5 - My Top 5 Favorite Features
Ivan | Fri, 2010-04-16 10:18Commenting on this Blog entry is closed.
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Somewhat impressed, but does'nt the Mac version have some missing features?
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what they done all these years? sleeping.
yes I'm brazilian xD
It's a commercial and tutorial into one, but well, pretty interesting. I'm more into Illustrator then to Photoshop so I definitely fancy this.
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1) Perspective is nice - expect to see a lot of ads with buildings in perspective in the next few years. Thumbs up on that one.
2) Variable width brush - what took them so long? Possibly the most useful feature they've added since version 6? Enthusiastic thumbs up on this - very excited if it works right.
3) Huh? A "new" pathfinder? Very bad sign that they have to spotlight something that's been in the program for at least a DECADE as their #3 favorite... ahem... "new" feature. This was such a LAME offering, I'm surprised he didn't just drop it altogether and go with only 4 new features instead.
4) See #3. A "new" way to mask? Oh goodie - did they make masking even harder to use than the last time they made it harder use? Illustrator 3(?) worked fine when it came to masking - why do they keep playing with it? I've made this point on the board before - WHY does Adobe insist on changing stuff that works just fine? Now I have to learn another tool that does something I already know how to do simply because Adobe wants another upgrade fee? The bottom line is the company does not respect their users and their skill sets.
5) RIP choker. Better raster than art before you send it to the printer. I guess this is a somewhat useful feature - but we already have better tools that do the same thing in Photoshop. More program bloat imho.
Final analysis? Just count 'em up...
2-1/2 out of a possible 5 stars
Hope there's more to it than this - but then again, if there was anything really cool beyond this I'm sure the guy would have mentioned it.
As always... jmho.
And now we just say paste and it will automatically paste those tacos inside the words!
I always wanted to paste tacos into words.
Perspective... is it like perspective in fhmx?
.... the only prespective that matters here is mine!
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Agree on what Art D. Rector is saying (been working with Illustrator since V 1.0). What I am witnessing is Adobe transforming their apps (same issues with Photoshop) into kiddie apps. No special talents required, no training, no whatever needed. "click-art" mondo. Lazy world...
Welcome aboard, whoever you are. This is exactly what I've been saying on the board here - Adobe disrespects their users' skills. It's bad enough that they have to dumb everything down for the secretaries, but even worse is when they change the stuff that's been around for years - effectively wiping out the skills that give experienced users the advantage they have EARNED over the years.
It is not so much of what the long time users have acquired (or earned to quote you), but what it will do to the creative results achieved when using Adobe apps. The fact that so many automated "skills" are available, get ready to see a lot of similar end (uniformed) images. A bit like what happened a few years back when it became easy to create "drop shadows". Suddenly, you could not find a brochure with images where drop shadows were not being used. Actually, this is why I *never* use pre-made filters (embedded or as an add-on to the app). Now, where can I buy stencils, I need to create an original illustration for a client of mine...