Adobe Illustrator CS3was introduced on Tuesday with the rest of Adobe ’s Creative Suite products . As with the other applications , Illustrator features tighter desegregation within the suite and it also has some new features .
“ Essentially there are three chief subject in this release — instauration , productiveness and consolidation , ” Philip Guindi , Illustrator Product Manager , told Macworld .
Perhaps one of the most interesting new features in Illustrator is unrecorded Color , a complete color exploration environs . Live color is designed for people that have ever been rag in pick out the appropriate color for a project .
springy Color permit you to interact with the lotion to discover Modern and unequalled color combining that you may save and reuse . Using the Color Guide you’re able to chance compelling colour and save them to organized colour groups in your Swatches panel .
you may also make colour schemes based on 23 classical color - harmoniousness rules such as Complementary , Analogous , Monochromatic and Triad , or you may create custom harmony dominion . Choose a base color , and then see what variations you come up with according to rules you choose . you may also limit colour schemes to existing libraries such as PANTONE solid state or any circle of colors you may have preserve in a previous project .
If you reduce the number of colors in your graphics , Illustrator will re - map new coloring to your objects based on the parameters you define .
Illustrator CS3 also includes integration with Flash CS3 Professional . Features that are of peculiar interestingness to Flash designers include Illustrator symbolization and type tools . Save any Illustrator shape as a symbol that you’re able to glue into Flash , and utilize symbol tool pick that are now standardized in Illustrator and Flash .
fit in to Adobe , the implicit in architecture of Illustrator has been improved so you’re able to now function more fluidly , without wait for the applications programme to catch up with your hands and your thoughts . you may now scroll and zoom with increased pep pill , and you ’ll notice snappier refresh rates and responsiveness . If you ’re using multiple CPUs , you ’ll experience even slap-up performance gain due to multithreading advances made in Illustrator CS3 .
“ If you are looking at PowerPC versus Intel , we are actually realise 250 - 300 percent improvements with typical files , ” enjoin Guindi .
Other enhancements to Illustrator CS3 admit improve drawing tool and control ; a young eraser tool ; raw document profiles ; a harvest sphere tool ; and enhanced symbolization .
Adobe Illustrator CS3will begin ship in April 2007 to customer in the United States and Canada . Adobe Flash CS3 will be $ 599 — rise options are available from the company ’s Web website .
