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Adobe

Illustrator

cs2

FEATURES

Product overview

Adobe Illustrator CS2 so ware gives you powerful new creative options, easier

access to tools, and the versatility to quickly produce ﬂ exible graphics for print,

video, the Web, and mobile devices.

Know no limits

Creative power

Live Trace

➤

Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and

scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.

Live Paint

➤

Apply color to any area of your artwork and use overlapping paths to create new

shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically

detects and corrects gaps.

Colorized grayscale

➤

Assign a spot color to a linked, embedded, or opened grayscale image, or even apply

a spot color to a drop shadow and be conﬁ dent that artwork will separate properly

when printing.

Gradient Mesh

• Simulate airbrush and watercolor eﬀ ects by adding multiple colors and precisely

controlling the transitions between colors.

Symbolism tools

• Enhance your artwork with additional design elements by spraying, scaling,

colorizing, and adjusting the transparency of repeated symbols while keeping ﬁ le

sizes small.

Flexible brushes

• Add ﬂ air to paths with customized brushes. Choose from calligraphic, scatter, art,

and pattern brushes.

Unique eﬀ ects

Live eﬀ ects

• Apply live eﬀ ects, including the hand-drawn Scribble Eﬀ ect, without aﬀ ecting the

underlying artwork, so you can edit at any time without starting over.

Unlimited transparency

• Expand your design options with blending modes and transparency eﬀ ects similar to

those in Adobe Photoshop® so ware.

Envelopes and live distortion

• Easily warp, liquify, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live

distortion tools.

3D eﬀ ects

• Turn 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects by extruding and revolving paths. Add

lighting and wrap images around 3D shapes to easily create objects such as

packaging mock-ups.

Vector graphics reinvented

➤

New or enhanced feature

Summary of content (6 pages)

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Adobe Illustrator cs2 ® ® Vector graphics reinvented Product overview Adobe Illustrator CS2 soft ware gives you powerful new creative options, easier access to tools, and the versatility to quickly produce ﬂexible graphics for print, video, the Web, and mobile devices. Know no limits Creative power ➤ ➤ ➤ Live Trace Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.
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Adobe Photoshop ﬁlters • Achieve a wide variety of eﬀects by applying Adobe Photoshop ﬁlters as nondestructive live eﬀects, included with the Photoshop Filter Gallery. Industry-standard drawing tools Pen tool • Draw with precision using the Pen tool for complete control over anchor points and Bézier curves. Pencil tool • Draw onscreen as you would on paper with the Pencil tool. Edit paths by simply drawing a new line near the path you want to alter.
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Clipping paths and opacity masks • Crop portions of a design using clipping paths or opacity masks. Precise layout tools • Position design elements with expert precision using Smart Guides, the Align and Transform palettes, and more. Blend • Morph one shape into another to create animations, smooth shading, and complex contours. Enjoy a smoother ride Improved workspace ➤ ➤ ➤ Control palette Discover new features and ﬁnd existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control palette.
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Save As Template command • Reuse designs by saving ﬁles as templates that include artboard dimensions, placeholder elements, styles, symbols, layers, and more. Magic Wand • Instantly select objects that share similar attributes, such as color, stroke width, or opacity, using the Magic Wand. Eyedropper • Copy color, text formatting, and other attributes from one object to another using the Eyedropper tool, which works just like the Eyedropper in Photoshop.
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Superior Web graphics ➤ Improved Macromedia® Flash® (SWF) export Expanded export options and a simpliﬁed process make it easier than ever to export your Illustrator artwork to SWF ﬁle format. Symbols • Easily create rich, repeating Web graphics while keeping ﬁle sizes small by designing with symbols, which automatically update every instance when you change the original.
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Broad-based input and output ➤ ➤ PDF/X support Create reliable, press-ready layouts using ISO-standard and ANSI-standard PDF/X. Nearly universal graphic ﬁle format support Work with almost any type of graphic ﬁle—including PDF, EPS, SVG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, and more. XMP support • Make your graphics easier to track in asset-management applications and other network publishing–savvy tools by embedding customized metadata, including IPTC properties.