[Deepa Subramaniam] Let's move on to Illustrator. Whether it's for logos, brand and marketing graphics, product packaging, fashion design or any other visuals, Illustrator is the standard for graphic design and illustration. And we've heard from many of you that you want us to keep improving the core of Illustrator by making it even faster, more responsive, and more powerful. You asked, and we've answered. Over the past year, we've worked closely with all of you to really improved Illustrator's performance, where it matters most to your work. We've made file embedding up to ten times faster, image handling up to five times faster, and we are making every major tool and workflow in Illustrator multithreaded and GPU accelerated. Beyond performance, we continue to improve core workflows like more easily, creating color swatches and gradients, and adding Firefly-powered Generative shape fill, which allows you to quickly fill your shapes with detail and color in your own unique style. Now, instead of just talking about creative power, expressiveness, and speed in Illustrator, let's see it in action. Please welcome designer and my homie, Michael Fugoso to the stage. [Applause] [Michael Fugoso] What's up London? My homies! [Applause] [Michael Fugoso] I'm happy to be back. Happy to be back on the MAX stage showing you cool stuff in Adobe Illustrator. Look at this! This is what I do. Hardcore, vector illustrations. Now these files end up being massive. It's a good thing the Illustrator team has been super hard at work at improving the performance to Illustrator. I showed this last year. We have an up to a ten times performance boost in zooming and panning. I'm up to like about 1,600% or so. I just pan over to that robot's face. So smooth. Illustrator is just handling this file like a champ, zoom out and zoom in. Let me remind you that this is a super, super massive file. Now, we've also added performance enhancements to raster rendering. To demonstrate this, I'm going to drag in about 59 super high-res images into this file. Look at this. Oh, and it's done. Boom. Heck, yes. Look, I'm going to start dragging these images out there.
I'm not going to drag out all 60 of these. But just to show you how high-res these images are, I'm going to zoom up to this really tiny one right here. What's up? What's up stars? Look at that. That is performance enhancements in Illustrator, just making our experience super smooth. Yes? [Cheering] [Michael Fugoso] Yes. [Laughs] [Michael Fugoso] Let's talk about some quality of life, improvements to our favorite tools. Do you see these two pieces right here? I want to add a gradient to these two. And what do I do is, I go over to my Swatches panel. What up, Swatches panel? And then, I start dragging in individual colors to my Gradient bar. Do you all do it like this? Yes. We don't get to do that anymore. None of that stuff. Actually, some of that stuff, go and check this out. I'm going to select the four colors that I want, just drag once - boom - done. [Laughs] [Michael Fugoso] Thank you. I did that so quickly, I'm going to do it again. I'm going to select these two right there. These four, I want these warm colors in there. Get over there, warm colors. Hey over here. And then drag that down - whoops - drag this down really quick - boom. Look at that, evenly spaced. Very nice. So, say I want to send this over to print or to a web developer, and we need the color information. Well, all we got to do, homies, is select all these colors here and go to Create Swatch Info... And watch this. Just like that - boom - look at that. Yes. [Applause] [Michael Fugoso] I love it. It doesn't have the typing in a bunch of Hex codes and custom infographics. Down here, I'm going to finish off my postcard design by telling you that we've added 1500 brand-new fonts to our extensive Font library. Who likes a ton of fonts? I do. You see this right here? [Laughs] [Michael Fugoso] I'm going to change this over to one of my favorite fonts, Helvetica. What's up, Helvetica, Helvetica, new world? Right over here and down here, my other favorite. Let's go. What's up, Gotham? All of our favorites from our friends at Monotype. Very nice. 1500 brand-new fonts, all these color options, quality of live updates to our favorite tools. Heck yes, London. Am I right, guys? Nice. We're going to continue this theme of quality of life here. I made this sketch over here in Adobe Fresco. It's a great drawing app. Now I want to render it like my two items here. Very precise curves. What I would typically use for precise curves in the most powerful tool ever for precision is the Pen Tool. But we all know that the Pen Tool might not be the easiest thing to learn. So, we have a new option here called the Quick Pen Tool, we're going to do this with a quickness, homies, watch this. I'm going to start off right here. And right away we have a preview of our next curve. If I hit the 2-key, it changes the orientation of that curve. And look at this. Hey, that's one of the teeth right there. And here're two of the teeth. And then three of the teeth. Yes, boom. Oh no, we got a straight line, what are we going to do? We're going to hit the 1-key, homies, just like this right there.
And then, okay, we got a curve right here, we just hit the 1-key again to get back to that profile. And you can see that the curve doesn't perfectly contour the skull. But if I hit the hold the Option key and scroll a little bit, you can see I can control the precision right there just like that. And then hit one more time to finish this off. Look at that with the quickness, that is the Quick Pen Tool. Just making things easy and intuitive. And then I finished off these illustrations here just to share with you a favorite from last year. We all were fans of this. So, I want to see how my artwork looks like on this 2D image of mugs here. Right here, the Mock-Up Tool, what's up, Mock-Up Tool. So, what this is going to do, if you're not familiar with it, it's going to create a 3D mesh around this 2D image of mugs. Just give a really cool place for our artwork to live in and watch this. I want to talk to you about updates to this tool. First off, look at the performance. Look how buttery smooth that is. If I zoom up really close, look at it just glide through those reflections. Oh, and you want some surface detection, homies? Check this out. What's up, surface detection? Yes, very nice. [Applause] [Laughs] [Michael Fugoso] Check it out, we have two more artworks here. What are we going to do? What do we do with these? We're going to mock-up more. What's up, Mock-up Tool? What's up, lollipop, get over there. We can now mock-up multiple artworks onto the same image, hey, ghosty. What up, little ghosty? You're going to get over there to that last mug over there. Nice, very nice. That is the new and improved Mock-Up Tool. Yes. [Applause] [Michael Fugoso] Thanks, homies. [Laughs] [Michael Fugoso] This piece right here, I made this for Instagram, classic Instagram. But I want to repost this. They want us to make it tall now. In order to make this tall, I either have to crop in really close, lose a ton of detail, or I'd have to spend a time drawing the edges out. What I really want to do is what we can do in Photoshop where we can just expand the image out. Generative expand is now in Illustrator powered by Firefly. What this is going to do is it's going to analyze my vector illustration here. Like I have a specific color scheme going on on this planet. It transitions over to the sky right there. You see this bottom piece right there? Look at this, boom, it's done. [Applause] [Michael Fugoso] We have two other options here to choose from. I really like this first one, but check this out. It didn't just expand the image, it gave it to us in pure vector form. That is Generative expand, currently in beta, but available for y'all to use in Illustrator today. All right, homies, I have one last one for you here. I made this poster primarily in Illustrator, but the text here's 3D. 3D is a little tough to do in Illustrator, so instead I brought it into Project Neo, which is a really cool tool that makes 3D accessible for someone like me that's primarily a 2D Illustrator. Look how I easily manipulate this in a 3D space to that perfect isometric angle. We have a brand-new Type Tool here, too, a 3D Type Tool where it's as easy as typing in what we want to get this really cool effects. What's up London? Yes. That is the brand-new 3D Type Tool. Project Neo, again, just making 3D super easy for people like me. Maybe like you too. And then I brought my poster into Adobe Express. Because I want to bring in some life into this right here. You see these lines are here? I have a few pro tips. I'm going to select all of these lines, and I'm going to add a simple Bob animation, look at this. How the app makes this really cool 3D platform effect. It's just a little too intense, so I'm going to turn that down because this is a very Zen and chill poster. Yes, just like that. And then I'm liking this black and white. But we need to add a splash of color here. So, I'm going to go ahead and add a really cool video. I have it favorited right there. And I have this cover my entire screen. Change the Blend mode, look at this. Adds this really cool Aurora borealis effect to my poster.
And then the last thing I'm going to do is I'm going to add a really cool audio track. Let's search for something Lo-Fi because this is a very chill poster, like I was saying earlier. Right there, favorited. Let's add this in there. Let's rewind this over to the beginning really quickly right there and then just to see that final result. Look at this. [Music] [Michael Fugoso] Yes, that is Adobe Express. Thank you, everybody, for letting me show you some really cool stuff up here. And I'm going to hand it back to my homie, Deepa. [Deepa Subramaniam] Oh my gosh, Michael, that was incredible, thank you. [Applause] [Deepa Subramaniam] Michael showed numerous performance improvements in Illustrator to really help you do detailed edits on massive high-res files, faster than ever before. And he showed off so many quality of life improvements like one-click gradient creation, the new Quick Pen Tool, and the new Firefly-powered Generative expand workflow now in the Illustrator beta app. And he showed off some of the 1500 new fonts available in your creative apps today, including many of the most popular fonts of all time, like Helvetica, Gotham and Avenir. And we saw the ease of creating 3D text with Project Neo, and how quickly Michael was able to bring his Illustrator poster to life with motion and audio, all in Adobe Express. All of what Michael showed is now available in Illustrator, Project Neo and Express, so please go check it out.
