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What’s New in
Illustrator CS2?
I
t’s always exciting to see what’s new in new versions of
your favorite software. Long-time Adobe Illustrator fans cer-
tainly have a great interest in learning about the new features
in Illustrator CS2, but those changes aren’t of interest only to
people who’ve used Illustrator extensively in the past. New
users and people who currently use competing products also
want to know if this new version adds must-have features.
In this chapter, I introduce several features that have been
added to Illustrator CS2 as well as some changes that make
existing features easier to use or simply more powerful.
Fortunately, Illustrator CS2 maintains a strong connection
with the past so that you don’t have to relearn the entire
application. Still, the changes that have been made are impor-
tant ones that you’ll find useful and fun. Let’s dig in!
Improving Your Drawings with Live
Trace
There’s probably little doubt that the two most exciting new
features in Illustrator CS2 are Live Trace and Live Paint. In this
section, I introduce Live Trace a very powerful tool that
replaces the old and quite limited Auto Trace tool. In the next
section, you learn more about Live Paint the much appreci-
ated replacement for the Paint Bucket tool.
This chapter merely introduces Live Trace. For a complete
discussion of the Live Trace tool, see Chapter 13.
The Live Trace tool converts imported bitmap (raster) images
into vector images. This makes it possible to manipulate
those images in Illustrator using the same tools and tech-
Cross-
Reference
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CHAPTER
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In This Chapter
Using Live Trace
Adding color with
Live Paint
Controlling Illustrator
with the Control
palette
Browsing file types
with Adobe Bridge
Working with
Photoshop import
improvements
Enhancing your
workspace
Colorizing images
with spot-color rasters
and other fun stuff
Being efficient with
SVG 1.1
Offsetting paths for
more control
Improving text
handling
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Summary of Contents

Page 1 - Illustrator CS2?

What’s New inIllustrator CS2?It’s always exciting to see what’s new in new versions ofyour favorite software. Long-time Adobe Illustrator fans cer-tai

Page 2 - Part I ✦ Illustrator Basics

12Part I ✦ Illustrator BasicsHandling Text with Underline andStrikethroughAlthough this final new feature isn’t likely to be a determining factor for

Page 3

4Part I ✦ Illustrator Basicsniques that you use for artwork created entirely within Illustrator. This capabilityopens up a whole new world of possibil

Page 4

5Chapter 1 ✦ What’s New in Illustrator CS2?Figure 1-1: The top image is the raw importedbitmap, the middle image was traced using the oldAuto Trace to

Page 5 - Using the Control Palette

6Part I ✦ Illustrator BasicsFigure 1-2 shows an example of applying the Live Paint tool to an image that wasconverted from a bitmap to vectors using t

Page 6

7Chapter 1 ✦ What’s New in Illustrator CS2?In most cases, you use both the Live Trace and Live Paint tools to process images,but the Live Paint tool a

Page 7 - Enhancements

8Part I ✦ Illustrator BasicsFinding Your Images Easily with Adobe BridgeAdobe Bridge is a new standalone program that is included with Illustrator CS2

Page 8 - Improving Your Workspace

9Chapter 1 ✦ What’s New in Illustrator CS2?Bridge also allows you to apply metadata — various types of information about yourfiles, such as who create

Page 9 - Using Offset Paths

10Part I ✦ Illustrator BasicsFigure 1-6: You can now choose between various layer comps when you import a Photoshop file containing multiple layer com

Page 10 - Strikethrough

11Chapter 1 ✦ What’s New in Illustrator CS2?The workspace layout feature also supports dual monitors, if you happen to belucky enough to have two disp

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