Adobe Illustrator CS6 is a powerful vector drawing tool that includes everything you'll need for design, web and video projects.
One major headline this time is the new focus on performance. True 64-bit support and Adobe's Mercury Performance System play a big part in improving responsiveness, but Adobe have also been identifying and resolving bottlenecks all around the package. The previous Gaussian blur implementation wasn't the best, for instance, but it's been optimised for CS6, and as a result Gaussian blurs (and effects which depend on them, such as drop shadows and glows) are now much, much faster.
It's a similar story with the interface. There's an obvious new look (you can even tweak the UI brightness to your personal taste), but Adobe report making more than 40 usability tweaks to the Illustrator interface, from easier font changes to inline editing of layer names.
And workspace management just generally works a little more like you'd always hoped. So even options which were previously hidden away, such as the Shape and Pen tools, can now be torn off and docked. And you can dock tools horizontally or vertically to organise your workspace just how you'd like.
You're looking for something more? Illustrator CS6 is relatively short on the big new features. There's a new image tracing engine to help you convert raster images to vectors, for instance, and the program can now easily create seamless tiled vector patterns, but that's about it.
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Is it worth the upgrade, then? Tricky: the performance enhancements and UI tweaks are welcome, but may not be enough to justify the outlay. We'd recommend you try before you buy.
Please note, the file you'll download here is Adobe's Download Manager, which will then fetch and install Illustrator for you. It's a huge file, though, so patience will probably be required.
Verdict:
Illustrator CS6 is notably faster and smarter then the previous edition. It's otherwise a little short on major new additions, but that's no great surprise as the program already did just about everything you could want, and it remains the best vector drawing tool around Microsoft publisher for mac free download 2012.
by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator
Updated Set 12, 2016
Note: In Illustrator CC, this is a lot easier than it was in CS6. Make sure View > Show Corner Widget is enabled. Use the Selection tool to pull one circle towards the center to round the corners dynamically. Use the Direct Selection tool to change just one.
So you want to round just one or two corners of a rectangle? Illustrator CS6 makes it easy to round all of them. Just select a rectangle, and choose Effect > Stylize > Round Corners. Set the radius and you are good to go.
But what if you just want to round one or two corners? It can be done, though it is definitely more fussy. Peachtree accounting software, free download for mac. Here’s one way to do it:
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- Select a rectangle.
- Select the Scissors tool and click two opposing corners to separate the single rectangle into two independent right angles.
- Select one of the right angles, and use Effect > Stylize > Round Corners to round one corner.
- Choose Object > Expand Appearance.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 on the other right angle.
NOTE: Because I moved my right angles apart to illustrate the two independent shapes, I will need to re-align their top and left edges before continuing. - Finally, select both angles and combine them back into a single shape with Object > Path > Join.
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