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Adobe Illustrator CS4—What’s New 4
Blob Brush tool
e Blob Brush tool generates a clean, lled, vector shape while you sketch, even when
strokes overlap, merging your paths naturally into a single object that’s easily selected and
edited. Now, when you draw, you don’t get the typical jumble of paths, you get an outlined
and lled shape—no expansion or Pathnder tools required. And you can customize how
your drawing ows together, choosing options for stroke character and pressure sensitivity.
Drawing with the Blob brush is a truly painterly, uid way to create vector
forms, especially when used in combination with the Eraser and Smooth tools.
Use these tools together—alternately stroking and erasing—to perfect your
silhouette to get a single, smooth outline without ever needing to expand paths
or use the Pathnder panel.
Integration and delivery
Collaborate with your team, work across products, and deliver anywhere, using integrated
tools and extensive format support. Illustrator CS4 enables export of editable, workable
content for web, interactive, and RIA projects. And moving smoothly among Adobe tools is
easier than ever, thanks to cross-product feature support and common interface elements.
Flex® integration
Enrich your Flex applications more easily and take advantage of further support for
designer-developer eciency with Adobe Flex 3 integration. Flex Skin Design extensions
for Illustrator enable reliable creation of vector skins with export in native Flex format.
Smooth send and receive
Send your artwork anywhere with broad support of even more le formats and across
Adobe products. Enjoy cross-product feature support such as the ability to import multiple
artboards from Illustrator into both Flash and Adobe InDesign® CS4 soware.
Work across multiple applications
Streamline your work among multiple applications with more tool commonality, increased
consistency of tool behavior, and new user-interface enhancements across the components
of Creative Suite 4.
TheBlobBrushtoolworks
with the calligraphic brushes
in Illustrator CS4 or you can
create custom brush shapes.
Begin drawing a shape
with the Blob Brush tool.
Perfecttheshapebysketching,
working strokes on top of strokes.
Use the Eraser tool to remove strokes from your shape,
alternating between the Blob Brush and the Eraser tools.