Top 5 Reasons to buy Illustrator CS5
Presenting the Top 5 Reasons to Buy Illustrator CS5. With the release of the new Illustrator CS5, comes bundles of happiness and joy for all the intermediate level designers, saving hours of hard work and gaining a professional touch to all illustrations and designs. I have tried to gather the top five features of Illustrator CS5 but there are lot more other cool features for your to check out and explore. Here are the top 5 features. Certainly worth your money. For details instructions, tutorials and how to use these tool click on the relevant topic below.
The Draw Inside Feature:
Just click the draw inside button and draw inside your illustration or text. No need to create a clipping mask or bounding box. Just let go of the mouse or pen and Illustrator does the clipping for you.

The Bristle Brush:
Lets you draw smooth strokes like hair and other stuff which requires blending and smooth strokes. Repeat the stokes to give a bit of depth , unlike the older version which used to give your hard and crisp strokes. All this in vector format.

Perspective Tool:
Ever wanted to draw objects in perspective or vanishing point in illustrator. Now you can. With just a few click , create astonishing objects, building, windows and much much more, all in perspective and you desired range or vanishing point.

Shape Builder Tool:
Now you can create those complex shapes which you’ve been dreaming of. With Shape Builder tool you not only you can join multiple forms of shapes and combine them to one, but also subtract or divide, two or more shapes to form new ones. Forget the path finder tool and forget all the add , divide buttons. Simply drag your mouse over the shapes and make or break shapes like picking the cherry off the cake.

Beautiful Stokes:
Every time I uses to see these swirls and wiggly shapes in vector format, I wondered how complex was it to make those shapes. Well now I dont have to wonder. Create unlimited forms of swirls and shapes with the New strokes tool. Just draw the stoke and shape it up with this amazing tool.



30. Jul, 2010 







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Although I like the additional features I question whether the expense warrants the upgrade. It certainly depends upon your specific needs.
In my business this is a must.