Adobe Illustrator CC 2014.1 v18.1.0 *FINAL* [MAC]
Updated: Oct 06, 2014
Adobe Illustrator is the companion application to Adobe Photoshop that mainly focuses on the creation and design of logos. For over two decades, Illustrator has provided countless possibilities and high-end options to design professional logos.
More specifically, Adobe Illustrator uses vector based images to help you create personalized logos. In addition, the process of drawing and manipulating basic shapes in Illustrator is greatly streamlined.
From a beginner s perspective, creating a new logos is pretty easy. The first steep is creating, uniting and manipulating shapes. The next steps consists of coloring the shapes, adding and editing symbols, applying effects, and then making final touches.
Of course, Illustrator provides tons of solutions and customizable parameters to the more experienced and creative logo designer.
The key features are the sophisticated vector drawing tools, working with up to 100 art boards, pattern creation, variable-width strokes, image trace, gradients, rock-solid stability and more.
At its core, Illustrator excels at working with vector graphics images. You can, thus, compose and edit these types of images for printing, video, mobilethe web. Using the advanced path controls, paint brushes and complex shape-building tools, you can achieve spectacular results.
What s new v18.1.0
CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES:
Got favorite colors, type stylesgraphics? Now keep them close at hand - wherever and whenever you need them - using Creative Cloud Libraries. Creative Cloud Libraries help you collect your favorite components, organize them into logical libraries, access and view them, to reuse them across your documents and projects. All you have to do is drop colors, type styles,graphics into the new Library panel (Window > Library) in Illustrator CC.
Across Illustrator projects. Whatever you save in a Library becomes available for use across Illustrator projects that you are working on.
On different computers. Libraries are synced to the Creative Cloud. Your Library becomes available on any computer that you are signed in on using your Creative Cloud ID.
Photoshop CC. Photoshop CC 2014 now has the Creative Cloud Libraries built in, too. Any Library you save Illustrator automatically becomes available for use in Photoshop as well.
Apps. The new Brush CC, Shape CC, and Color CC apps enable you to save your designs to your Creative Cloud Libraries. This means that you can stay creative on-the-go using your mobile apps, while constantly building your design repositories.
TOUCH WORKSPACE:
The Touch workspace is designed for Windows 8 tablets, and exposes the most essential tools and controls that designers need to be creative on-the-go. Working on Illustrator with a tablet becomes a richer experience with the use of a pressure-sensitive pen and multi-touch gestures.
Also, use the new Stencils feature that host a collection of French curves. Use the outlines of these shapes as they are,scale them and reposition them to create a variety of refined curves.
What s more - you can switch back to a traditional workspace at any point in time to leverage the full collection of Illustrator tools and features.
CURVATURE TOOL:
Create paths quickly and with visual foresight. Select the Curvature tool (Shift + ~), start with two basic points, and then watch a preview of the how the curve will look like if you were to drop another point at the current location of the cursor.
Don t want a curve? Instead of just dropping a point, press Option/Alt when you drop a point, to create a straight line the previous point. If you have already created a smooth curve, double-click a point to toggle between a smooth curve and straight line.
Use this technique on any point, in any shape. Drawedit - much faster than before!
JOIN TOOL:
You can now use the Join tool to easily fix paths that do not exactly intersect the way you want them to. Did the paths you draw fall short of intersecting? Or they did meet, but extended beyond the point of intersection? Select the Join tool, scrub across the points of the paths where you d like them to intersect, and it s done! The paths join and truncate at the point of intersection - but without changingmodifying the trajectories of the original paths.
AREA TYPE AUTOSIZING:
Area Type frames now can expand and shrink to accommodate text that you fill into the type frame. You can convert to and an autosizingfixed size frame. When set to auto-size and grow automatically, you do not have to managebother
overset boxes.Double-click the widget at the bottom of the Area Type frame to toggle the Area Type frame between an auto-sizing framea fixed-height frame. When you add, delete,edit text, the frame resizes automatically.
LIVE SHAPES:
Rectangles and Rounded Rectangles:
All rectangles and rounded rectangles have modifiable corners. While each corner can have and independent radius value, all attributes are retained even when you scalerotate the rectangle. Rectangles and rounded rectangles now remember all modifications made, be it width, height, rotation, corner treatment. This capability means you can always return to the original shape of the object.
PEN TOOL PREVIEW & DRAWING ENHANCEMENTS:
Pen tool preview:
The Pen tool displays a preview of what the will be drawn on your artboard, before you click and drop the next point. This helps you visualize the next curve before you commit to the next point - this gives you much more control and saves you the time spent in drawing, reviewing, and then re-drawing paths that need to be re-done.
Anchor point enhancements:
Fine adjustment of curves is now easier. Enhanced anchor point controls allow unequaldifferent-direction handles to be dragged as you draw to control the smoothness of each segment. You can even change a corner point to smooth without ruining your shape.
Snapping
s (point, pixel, grid):When snapping is turned on, your anchor points and handles (direction lines) align to your choice of pixel, grid,point. However, handles snapping to the grid restricts the freedom with which you draw. In the 2014 release of Illustrator CC, whatever you choose to snap to, handles are completely unrestricted. When handles are not subject to being snapped to a grid, you have much finer control over drawing and editing workflows.
Close paths with better control:
A task such as precisely closing a path is an oft-repeated vector art workflow. In the 2014 release of Illustrator CC, you now have much better and precise control while connecting end and start points. With this enhancement you can reposition a closing pointchoose to break the handles to adjust the closing curve exactly as per your requirement.
TYPEKIT: MISSING FONTS WORKFLOW:
Locally-available and Typekit-based fonts can easily be interspersed in Illustrator CC artwork. However, there may be occasions when you open an artwork file on different computer, and find a few fonts missing. In such a situation, any Text elements using unavailable fonts are highlighted in pink, and are rendered using a default font. From the 2014 release of Illustrator CC, the online Typekit desktop font library is automatically searched for the missing font. If the missing font is available online you have the option of syncing it to your current computer.
HELLO SCREEN:
The 2014 release of Illustrator CC has a new feature to help you discover, learn, use, and promote comprehensive use of features. The Hello screen is a single location that displays content relevant to your subs--cription and use. The screen is displayed each time you start Illustrator,when you click Home > Welcome. The Welcome screen displays Illustrator-related tutorials, videos, interactive games, Help content, and much more. A tab-based approach helps you find interesting content, be it on new features, getting started launch-boards,nifty tips and techniques.
OTHER IMPORTANT ENHANCEMENTS:
Pencil tool enhancements:
The Pencil tool has been
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with an additional Fidelity setting for finer control over the paths
you draw. This additional level has been extended to the Paintbrush and
Blob Brush tools as well.Also, you can enable an option that converts the PencilBrush tools into the Smooth tool when you press the Option/Alt key.
Text enhancements:
The text engine in the 2014 release of Illustrator CC has been enhanced to make the experience of working with text and fonts in different languages more predictable. Also, new typographical notations have been added, and some existing ones have been
d.Actions panel:
On reloading a saved Action Set, certain actions would cause errors. The cause for these errors has been fixed.
On restarting Illustrator, some actions would cause errors while playing. This error has been fixed.
SVG enhancements:
In the SVG Save Options dialog, the Use textPath checkbox is ed by default. This reduces generated markup, resulting in smaller SVG output files.
Markup for generated preview HTML has been cleaned up.
Mac OS REQS
Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
Mac OS X v10.6.8, v10.7,v10.8
2GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
2GB of available hard-disk space for installation additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file systemon removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)
Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and access to online services.*
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