Wiley Illustrator CS2 Bible 978-0-7645-9581-3 User Manual

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!

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-

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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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