We got a glimpse of what illustrator for iPad is going to be like at Adobe MAX
and I have to admit for me it was the highlight of the whole show.
I am super excited to tell you that I got invited to test the beta version of the app
and to share my unbiased thoughts about it with you
I was asked not to show the
user interface as it is still suspect to change
but that will only help to focus
even more on these five cool features that I'm going to share with you in this video.
When you're drawing with the pencil in Illustrator for iPad you can pause
to create corner points
so this can help to separate your curves
so even when you're drawing with a single line like you can see here in this example
I can separate
the continuous flow of my curves
and create those corner points.
So this is brilliant because I can very quickly create cool line work
combining curves and straight lines
but of course
when I'm ready I can also edit every detail
so I just have to switch to the edit mode
and I can remove anchor points that I don't need
I can refine the ones that I have
and it's just very similar to the desktop experience
but I would say it's much easier by using touch gestures
and also the Apple pencil
and by the way there is a smoothness option with which
you can adjust the automatic refinement of your lines.
Drawing in symmetry is a pain in the desktop version of Illustrator
but luckily on the iPad
it's so much easier because there is a dedicated symmetry feature.
So you can just start drawing with the pen tool or pencil tool
in this mode
and everything will automatically be mirrored on the other side
So the cool thing about this is that everything will be still editable
so even if you stop working in symmetry mode
the whole object that you're
working was all these lines will be combined into this
special group or symmetry group I guess we can call it
which whenever you go back
into making changes to the group or even adding additional lines
it will still remember your symmetry the center of symmetry
and also going to continue
mirror everything
and it's worth mentioning that you can also expand this
special group
so that will make both sides editable independently of each other.
Working with clipping masks is also really cool in Illustrator for iPad
because instead of having to create the masks on top of the objects
that you would like to include in the mask here is the reverse.
So if you have a couple of objects already like in this case
in this illustration you can see
the inside of the ear
for example or the eyebrow the shapes were already there
and for me to be able to add these additional lines inside those shapes
all I had to do is to draw over them
and then select all and turn into a clipping mask.
It makes so much more sense so it's literally just a reverse of the behavior
from the desktop version of Illustrator.
We have great news for you if you cannot wait
until the apps official release.
Adobe provided our viewers an early access sign up
just follow the link in the description below
and sign up now to get an opportunity
to be invited to participate in the beta program
when more seats become available.
There are two types of repeat options in Illustrator for iPad.
The pattern and the radial repeat
here you can see I added a couple of triangles on the top
and I turn them into a group and I'm using the
radial repeat option.
It's amazing because you can very quickly increase
the amount of elements so you can always adjust that later
you can adjust the center point
and also of course the position and the size of your repeat.
Apart from this you can also adjust the sweep with which you can create a gap
in the pattern and it would actually look quite cool in this composition
just to have on the top
but I decided to have it all
around just so you can see how the feature works and once again this is
fully editable just like everything else you do in this app.
It is also very intuitive to work with text
you can even drag and drop text onto an object
to create type on path.
So you can adjust and move the text inside or outside of the path
and then, later on, you can change the shape easily
with the text still intact and inside
the text, of course, is also editable at any point and
you can even adjust it further within or outside the shape.
So these were my five favorite features of the current beta version
of illustrator for iPad
and I can't wait to try out all the other features that are planned
for the release.
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