Adobe Illustrator
What is Illustrator?
Adobe Illustrator CS6 software helps you create
distinctive vector artwork for any project. Take advantage
of the precision and power of sophisticated drawing tools,
expressive natural brushes, and a host of time-savers.
Use powerful creative tools
Design vector graphics with precision and power using Adobe Illustrator CS6 software. Draw accurately in perspective, create variable-width strokes, paint with lifelike brushes, and let your creative juices flow.
Sophisticated vector drawing tools
Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls.
Beautiful Strokes
Fully control variable-width strokes, arrowheads, dashes, and art brush scaling along a path.
Perspective drawing
Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.
Bristle Brush
Paint with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes. Achieve the expressiveness of natural media with the scalability of vector graphics.
Gradients and transparency
Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.
Blob Brush
Sketch with a brush that generates a single clean vector shape, even when strokes overlap. Draw naturally, using the Blob Brush tool together with the Eraser and Smooth tools.
Advanced typography
Design beautiful text for any media with professional controls for paragraph and character styles, support for OpenType®, transparent effects, and more.
Resolution-independent effects
See raster effects such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures maintain their appearance across media. Create work for different types of output and know that raster effects will look the same no matter how your resolution settings change.
Flexible brushes
Enjoy improved pressure sensitivity when using a pen and tablet. Add flair to paths, choosing from calligraphic, scatter, art, and pattern brushes. Take advantage of newly subtle controls when making your own custom brushes.
Brushes with corner control
Apply art and pattern brushes to a path and get clean results, even at tight bends or corners. Where strokes of different widths join, or they form obtuse or acute angles, choose options to properly fill points where joins occur.
Live Trace
Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace.
Live Color
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color, which lets you select any artwork and interactively edit the colors to see results immediately. Use the intuitive Color Guide panel to quickly choose tints, shades, or harmonious color combinations.
Envelopes and live distortion
Warp, liquefy, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live distortion tools. Easily access envelope options from the Control panel.
Blend
Morph one shape into another to create smooth shading, complex contours, and basic animations.
3D effects
Turn 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects by extruding and revolving paths. Add lighting and wrap images around 3D shapes to easily create objects such as packaging mock-ups, and separate spot colors applied to 3D artwork.
Clipping masks
Use clipping masks to hide areas of an object or group, crop placed images, or cut intricate shapes. Quickly find the clipping mask options in the Control panel and work with masks more easily, thanks to new viewing choices for both masks and masked objects.
Live effects
Apply live effects without affecting the underlying artwork, so you can edit at any time without starting over.
Symbol spraying
Add design elements to your artwork by spraying, scaling, colorizing, and adjusting the transparency of repeated symbols while keeping file sizes small.
Graphing tools
Communicate data clearly using powerful tools that make it easy to produce visually compelling charts and graphs, including quickly applying harmonious color groups with Live Color.