Jul 11
Stroke Options in Illustrator CS2
2005 at 01.22 am posted by Veerle
One of the new features in Adobe Illustrator CS2 that I like a lot are the Stroke Options. It is now (finally) possible to choose the aligning of a stroke. It’ll make life much easier for sure ;-)
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I don’t have Adobe Illustrator CS2 yet, but it looks a very good feature! Especially when drawing some more photo-realistic images.
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So you just click and that’s it?
CS 2 does indeed have some nice small improvements :)
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What do you think of the tracing function ?
Are there any real-world usages or is it just a gadget ?
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Very nice. That has always irritated me with Illustrator. The more I hear about it the more I think I need to upgrade.
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@AkaXaka, yes that’s it. Although I must say there is the issue of ‘double’ borders (you can see this in the second picture of my example). So if you don’t want that you need to ‘fix’ things by converting the strokes into fillings etc. if you know what I mean. As far as I know this is the only way to get it right in the corners.
@Vaken, I haven’t experimented with it enough to tell, but the few times I used it I found the results more then just ‘pretty good’. I think it depends a lot on what you want to achieve as result, so you need to experiment with the settings etc. I think the most important factor that influences the end result is the quality of the picture you start from. It is certainly a great feature that I’ll use a lot.
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are really strokes usefull?… i’ve heard that is always better to convert them to fills. what do you think of this veerle?
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@ronald_poi, I often convert lines to fill too, only if I’m absolutely sure it is my final result and I won’t be changing anything drastic. But if you need maximum flexibility in your illustration, then converting to fills isn’t a such good idea. It’s always more difficult to edit. It’s harder to keep the exact width of the ‘strokes’.
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CorelDraw has had this stroking kind of control for 10 years and I’ve been waiting for Illustrator to catch up for a long time.
Next on the list for me is a simple way to select objects behind other objects (drill down) with a ctrl click combination (much like Freehand does). this locking and unlocking all the time drives me crazy and risks leaving objects inadvertently locked.
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i’ve heard many times that illustrator is better than corel draw (more professional), and that’s why im switching… but it’s kind of difficult at the beggining
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Finally Illustrator gets to compete with Corel Draw, I think… I always used Corel, but the latest Illustrator demo was quite pleasant - the stroke option is a really great idea…
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Finaly!!!
I’ve been waiting for that a long time.
No more: ?C, ?B, ?2, path>oulinestroke, etc. etc.
I feel good!