Adobe Upg CS3 - CS5 Master Collection, Mac, DVD, ENG 65066410 User Manual

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection 

What’s New

Beautiful strokes
Use variable-width controls to create any stroke shape you 

can imagine. Adjust them quickly at any point, symmetrically 
or along either side. Create complex, custom-width profiles 

that you can save and subsequently apply to any stroke.

Work in a completely new way with arrowheads. Pick an 
arrowhead shape, and then control placement and scaling 

from within the Stroke panel.

Control alignment of dashes   
on a stroke. Dashes can now   

be positioned symmetrically 
around corners and evenly at 
the ends of paths, adjusting 
automatically to fit.

Bristle Brush
Paint freely in Illustrator CS5 with the vector-based Bristle Brush to create lifelike brush strokes. 

You don’t have to sacrifice the editability and scalability of vectors in order to achieve expressive  

painted effects. Set bristle characteristics such as size, length, thickness, and stiffness. Set brush 
shape and bristle density along with paint opacity. And save brush characteristics for later use.

In one step, 

click to add the 
control and 
drag to change 
stroke width.

Control arrowheads in the Stroke 
panel—even choose whether to 
align the tip or the base of the 
arrowhead to the path endpoint.

Choose to have 

dashes intelligently 

handle sharp points.

Select options for the Bristle Brush to 

achieve just the feel that you want. 

One technique is to paint inside of a 
mask. With the Bristle Brush, stroke 

freely all over the areas of your mask, 
trying different colors and opacities, 

painting  as loosely as you wish.