Adobe Illustrator CS5 ($599 list new, $199 list upgrade) marks the continuation of two fine traditions from Adobe. First is the mere existence of this powerful, vector-based image editor, which gives ...

In the early days of Adobe's PostScript innovation, drawing artwork meant issuing a series of text instructions to define a shape you wanted to print. Sensing the distance between the programmer ...

Adobe has introduced a host of improvements and new capabilities to Illustrator CS5, its flagship vector drawing program. Among them are perspective drawing, a bristle brush, and integration with its ...

One of the hardest things to accomplish in vector illustration is a halftone, which is a way of reproducing a monochrome image using only dots of varying sizes. Halftones are especially important for ...