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Getting Started with Workflow Solutions

Part I

You’ll also find these new features in Illustrator CS4:

Blob Brush tool: Illustrator’s new Blob Brush tool lets you paint pressure-sensitive paths

that blend with one another to create a single object, as shown in Figure 1.4. The Blob

brush detects color and only combines paths of like colors.

FIGURE 1.4

The Blobby Brush tool lets you paint with random effects.

Appearance panel: The Appearance panel has been overhauled allowing more immedi-

ate editing of objects including apply stroke, fill, and effects. A Visibility icon for each

appearance attribute makes it easy to turn attributes on and off.

Multiple Artboards: Illustrator now lets you work with multiple artboards.

Adobe InDesign CS4

InDesign is the central hub of your creative workflow. This is where you bring together the images

and objects that you create in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4. You can import

type created in a word-processing program, import from Adobe’s InCopy, or set type in the

InDesign Story Editor or in other ways. With InDesign’s free-form ease of page layout, you can lay

out a design for publication. You can then export the InDesign document as a PDF file suited for

print, Web hosting, electronic file exchanges, or CD/DVD-ROM replication. If you want to include

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