Illustrator CS5

Macworld's Illustrator CS5 Coverage

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  Illustrator CS5 A range of new features and updates, combined with zippier performance, make the new Illustrator CS5 compelling for Web and application design. Here's our complete review.
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  Create scary images with free Ghoulish font Ghoulish is a free font designed Canadian art director Gary Pullin, a man who takes unnatural delight in putting the chill into a serif.
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  Create scalable vector halftones in Illustrator Halftones are especially important for graphic artists working with a limited number of colors because they give nuance to otherwise flat artwork. Chris McVeigh walks us through the process.
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  Adobe previews Muse Web design app Muse is a freeform interactive Web authoring tool targeted to print-oriented designers.
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  Bert Monroy's Times Square comes to life in San Francisco Bert Monroy creates hyperrealistic paintings almost entirely in Photoshop (with a little help from Illustrator). Times Square took four years to complete.
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  Is Flash CS5.5 a minor update or a must-have? Adobe has launched interim updates of several Creative Suite apps and now offers them for subscription pricing. Flash developer Michael Baumgardt gives us the lowdown on the new Flash family upgrades.
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  Adobe Creative Suite's Lion limitations Adobe has published a series of tech notes on Creative Suite's compatibility issues with Apple's Lion.
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  Decorative dingbats add design flexibility With a little exploration into your fonts and a little creative spark, dingbats can make your typographic designs come alive.
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  Make customized t-shirts with your Mac Making a holiday gift is often hit-and-miss; but you can rarely go wrong with a nicely designed T-shirt.
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  Adobe adds HTML5 controls to Illustrator A new expansion pack to Adobe Illustrator allows designers to build one interface for multiple Web and print platforms.
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  Extensis releases Suitcase Fusion 3; launches WebINK Extensis upgrades its Suitcase Fusion font manager and launches an online font rental service for Web designers.
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  Adobe Creative Suite 5 starts shipping The massive overhaul to Adobe's collection of print, Web, and video applications announced earlier this month is available starting Friday, the software maker announced.
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  Illustrator CS5 puts design in perspective Adobe has introduced a host of improvements to Illustrator CS5, its flagship vector drawing program.