It’s official…CS6 is here! Now let’s discuss what’s new and we’ll start with Adobe Illustrator:
- The first change you will notice right away when you open the program—the interface. Controls in the Preferences let you control the brightness of your workspace. The default is a much darker interface that let’s you focus more on your artwork.
- Gradients on strokes—in previous versions of Illustrator you could only add a gradient to a fill, not a stroke. Not anymore. Combine this feature with the variable-width stroke and this is a very powerful tool.
- Create patterns more easily with the Patterns Options panel—the panel lets you create seamless patterns that you can edit at any time, and includes instant previewing.
- Live Trace (converting raster images to editable vector graphics) came out in CS2 and now Adobe has created a completely new tracing engine. This new Image Trace automatically detects the most appropriate preset and you still have control in the Image Trace panel.
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