Adobe Illustrator CS2 Presents New Features

May 26, 2005 – Adobe Systems Incorporated listed down some of the very important new features of the Adobe Illustrator CS2 software, together with an in-depth review of its enhanced capabilities. According to its dossier, illustrators will rediscover the joys of illustration once they move to the Adobe Illustrator CS2 software. Vector graphics have never been reinvented in this way.

Here are the new features available in the Illustrator CS2:

Live Trace – this feature enables users to quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images into editable and scalable vector paths.
Live Paint – through this capability, artists can apply color to any area of their artwork and they can use overlapping paths to create new shapes. This new feature intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.
Colorized grayscale – this allows users to assign a spot color to a linked, embedded, or opened grayscale image, or even apply a spot color to a drop shadow and be confident that artwork will separate properly when printing.
Expanded stroke options – this enables the user to control the position of a stroke on a path by choosing centered, inside, or outside.
Text underline and strikethrough – users can apply underlining and strikethroughs easily to any line of text, or text element.
Adobe Photoshop layer comp support – from within Illustrator CS2, users can control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded or opened Photoshop files.

Graphic and digital artists will also enjoy a smoother ride with Illustrator CS2 due to its control palette that has existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes, thus, simpler and easier.

Custom workspaces allow users to work more efficiently and optimize their screen area. This feature displays only the palettes that the artist will need for a specific task. They can still save, share or access any workspace at any time and have the option of using workspace templates. The Adobe Illustrator CS also has Adobe Bridge to efficiently browse and preview creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos, and more. Adobe Illustrator CS2 also enjoys Wacom tablet support that provides pressure-sensitive drawing and erasing. New Intous3 features are also featured in Illustrator like tilt sensitivity.

The updated and enhance Illustrator also has the ability for multipage PDF export, shared PDF presets, Page tile overlap control, Improved Macromedia Flash (SWF) export, mobile content creation, PDF/X Support and nearly universal graphic file format support. These features enable the users to work well with others. Illustrator CS2 also come with bundled fonts from the OpenType fonts that are featured in the entire Adobe Creative Suite 2.

Many new capabilities and possibilities are offered in the Adobe Illustrator CS2. Artists can create vector contents using its Live Trace features. Content creators and industry partners can create meaningful workflow solutions with the help of Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP).

To be able to install Adobe Illustrator CS2, here are important requirements: PC must have Intel Pentium III or 4 processor or equivalent with 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended) and 820MB of available hard-disk space. For Macintosh: PowerPC G4 or G5 Processor, Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.3.8 with 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended) with 960MB of available hard-disk space. -30-

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