Photoshop CS6 Extended offers a powerful 3D extrusion tool. Here we see how to use it with text to great effect, adjusting contours, angles and width for maximum impact.

Learn how you can use the Variable Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator to rapidly trace complex brush strokes and turn a scanned image into fully-fledged vector art.

Using the Width tool, create variable-width strokes and use various stroke profiles for consistent style in Illustrator CS5.

Create variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5. Control the thickness of a stroke at any point along a path by using the Width tool. Apply, save, and re-apply variable widths across multiple paths by using width profiles.

Create original art or pattern brushes, and learn how to adjust segments of a brush pattern in Illustrator CS5.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5. Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.

Join Worldwide Design Evangelist Terry White as he runs through his 5 favorite Adobe Illustrator CS5 features. Included are Perspective Drawing, The Width Tool, The Shape Builder Tool and more!

Terry White shares a few of his favorite new features in CS5 Design Premium including making precision selections, quickly with Photoshop, create expressive graphics easily with variable-width strokes in Illustrator and delivering visually engaging interactive documents that include video, audio and animation with InDesign.