| One of the first things you might notice about the newest version of Adobe Illustrator is that numbers are out, and letters are in. Instead of the predictable "Illustrator 11," this release has been given the name "Illustrator CS." The CS stands for Creative Suite, and in fact it is a pretty suite deal (ouch).
"Creative Suite" refers to the fact that Illustrator is now engineered to function more closely than ever with its sibling applications, Photoshop and InDesign. All three are now available as a suite, akin to the way Microsoft Office bundles together Microsoft's most popular applications. (In addition to the Standard version of the Suite, which contains Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, there's also a Premium version that includes Acrobat and GoLive.)
But Illustrator CS has plenty more excitement to offer than just sibling bonding. |