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Hello, my name is Terry White, Worldwide Design Evangelist for Adobe Systems.
I thought I'd spend just a few minutes showing you my top 5 favorite things
in Illustrator CS5.
So it's kind of a 5 in 5 thing going on.
I'm in Illustrator, I've only got a few minutes, so let me show you my 5 favorite new things.
By no means is this all that's new in Illustrator;
these are just my 5 top picks.
You notice that we have this building here and it looks like it's drawn in 3D,
where actually it's drawn in the new Perspective Drawing feature inside of Illustrator.
Let's see how that works.
We'll go ahead and create a new document from scratch.
We'll just click OK, blank document, and now we can go ahead and pull off
our new Perspective Drawing tools.
The minute I click the Perspective Grid that puts up a new grid on the page,
or actually for the whole document, I can go ahead and pull this around, control it,
choose the vanishing points, dictate exactly how I want this grid to appear.
Once I get it in place, I can move it around on the page
and then I can actually start applying artwork against it
using any of my drawing tools, for the most part.
Let's go ahead and select our Star tool.
We'll give it a new fill color, and we'll say that the stroke itself has no stroke.
So now that we've got that star in place, we'll just select the pane we want to be on
or the plane we want to be on,
and we can just go ahead and start dragging on our star.
We can go ahead and move that star in perspective,
so it's just distorting it as if I had drawn it that way to begin with,
and that's the beauty of the Perspective Drawing tools.
Now, I know what you're saying.
"I drew it on the wrong side. Can I flip it over?" And yes, you can.
If you hit the keyboard shortcuts as you're moving it,
you can actually move it from side to side.
How will this come into play when you're actually working with artwork
in another document or that you've drawn previously?
If I go to my View here, I've got some windows to choose from.
We'll just go ahead and select one of these windows,
we'll copy it, we'll go back to my untitled document,
we'll deselect everything just so we can paste it in and see what we normally get,
and we normally get something very flat.
However, if I grab my Perspective Move tool,
the minute I start interacting with this, it will now interact with it in perspective.
Hold down my Option or Alt key, and I can actually drag it out to create duplicates
in perspective that get smaller as I go down my building.
And again, if I hit the number 1 it will now switch it over to that panel
and I can of course continue working on that side.
Love the new Perspective Drawing features.
All right, so now let's go ahead and switch back over to this document.
We'll go ahead and do a View.
We'll switch over to some other elements here.
Probably another one of my favorite things is the new Variable Stroke Width tool.
I have these different masks here, these different faces,
but the beauty of it is these are all the same paths.
These are single paths, nothing special about the paths themselves
and the way they were drawn.
However, what makes them different is that now when I select one
with my Selection tool here, I can go ahead and grab the new Width tool
to plot points along the path and vary the width anywhere that I want.
I can hold down my Option or Alt key so that they're not necessarily even widths.
I can go ahead and also apply these as profiles and save them and use them later.
This will just enhance the way I draw from here on out
because I no longer have to think about the brush and pressure sensitivity
and mastering all of that; I can just simply vary the width after the fact.
Love the new Variable Width tool,
and it will definitely help me in my drawing.
So now we'll go ahead and switch over to this document.
We'll switch to our Icons view here.
In our icons we've just got simple objects that were drawn as multiple objects
and then grouped together.
However, if we were using a Pathfinder we can actually make those into 1.
Luckily, my third favorite thing is that we have a brand new Shape Builder tool,
and this tool detects all the various pieces of this.
I can just simply drag it through those objects
and it will automatically build a new shape that is 1 single shape now from those objects.
So we'll just go ahead and do the same thing here.
I can even hold down my Shift key to do multiple objects that aren't touching
all at the same vector points.
And we can go ahead now and combine those all into 1
as if I had painstakingly drawn them that way to begin with.
Let's go ahead and switch back to this document one more time.
We'll go ahead and switch over to our Coffee Cup view.
I love this particular feature where I get the ability to choose a different drawing mode.
We've got the coffee cup here. I'm going to choose Draw Inside.
What that means is that now it's constraining my drawing to within the object.
If I go ahead and grab something like my Blob Brush,
of course if I draw inside you'll be inside,
but what if I go crazy and draw outside the lines here?
The beauty of it is now it's constraining that drawing to just being inside the coffee cup.
So it's doing all the masking for me, everything I would need to do
to keep that within the object or area that I draw it in.
So this will help me tremendously in my artwork from here on out.
Now, to take that up a notch, let's go ahead and view 1 more area,
talking about drawing inside.
We'll go to our Taco Truck view here.
In this case we've got actual live text.
This text is text. We can go ahead and change it to a letter D, for example.
Obviously, we don't want to do that, but let's go ahead and select it now.
With that text selected, we can do the same drawing mode.
We can say Draw Inside.
So now I'll select these tacos.
We'll just copy them, we'll switch back to the taco area text here,
and we'll now just simply say Paste,
and it will automatically paste those tacos inside the words.
It's actually masking them, so now this is actually still live text.
So we'll change that to another C, and we get the idea that that is still live text
with the tacos pasted inside because of the Draw Inside feature.
Last but not least, the new Bristle Brush painting technology.
I'll switch over to this document,
and what I'm about to show you is going to look very much like painted effects
inside of Photoshop, whereas in actuality it's all vector.
If we hit Command Y we can see that this is all vector shapes.
Now I'll go ahead and say Draw Inside once again.
We'll grab our paintbrush, but in this case we're going to create a brand new brush.
This time we'll create one that's a Bristle Brush.
So we've got our Bristle Brush selected.
We'll go ahead and say that it's going to be a Round Fan that's going to be 10mm in size.
We'll click OK, and now with nothing selected
we'll just go ahead and switch over to our stroke.
We'll go ahead and grab a nice complementary purple to go with her dress.
Now we'll grab our Wacom pen,
and because we said Draw Inside and now because I'm using the pen,
it automatically detects the bristles that are imaginary in this case on my pen,
but it's actually using painting technology even though this is all vector.
So I get that painted look even though I'm not painting a single pixel in this document.
I can pick different colors and get these cool effects, these cool painted strokes,
these bristles, as if I had done this by hand with a real, wet brush.
And again, at the end of the day this is all still vector art.
So that's it. Those are my top 5 favorite things about Illustrator CS5.
More to come over the next 18 months on creativesuitepodcast.com,
but I think you got just a little taste of what's new inside of Illustrator CS5.
Thanks again. My name is Terry White.
