Illustrator CS6 / Features

Quickly accomplish daily tasks in a modern, streamlined interface. Find your favorite tools and options quickly. Enjoy inline editing of layer names and precise color sampling.

Use adjustable UI brightness to keep visual focus on your artwork. With smooth, continuous control of the background's gray scale, you can quickly match the look of your video tools.

Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls.

Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.

Design beautiful text for virtually any media with professional controls for paragraph and character styles, support for OpenType®, transparent effects, and more.

Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with different types of repeating patterns that can be edited at any time for maximum design flexibility.

Make symbols with powerful 9-slice scaling and registration point control. Use layers to create extremely complex symbols that are repeatable to keep file sizes small.

Define up to 100 working areas in one file. Paste objects in place among artboards for repeating artwork on multiple screens or video frames. Quickly add, delete, and reorder.

Interact with gradients directly on your object — defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Even create gradients on strokes and meshes.

Apply gradients to your strokes — along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself — all with complete control over gradient placement and opacity.

See effects such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures maintain their appearance across media. Raster effects look the same no matter how your resolution settings change.

Set up new documents with video-production-specific device profiles, which also include relevant dimensions, safe areas, color groups, and more.

Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke, or effects panels.

Combine styles for unique effects and increased efficiency. Apply styles without disturbing appearances. Enjoy thumbnail previews and an expanded library of prebuilt styles.

Explore, apply, and control color variations. Interactively edit colors on any selection using the Color Guide to assist with themes and Recolor Artwork to quickly apply them.