Digital paint programs are coming of age — on Tuesday, September 24, Adobe launched Fresco, a painting app that mimics real art techniques rather than the mouse-to-screen drawings that usually end up ...

If last year's upgrade to Illustrator CS seemed minor, then Adobe Illustrator CS2 takes a major jump. New are professional features such as support for the PDF/X standard, long used in ad creation and ...

Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique in Illustrator that enables advanced coloring of vector objects with smooth and malleable color transitions. If you’re reasonably familiar with ...

Price: Illustrator CS3 full version: $599; upgrade from Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CorelDraw, Freehand 9, 10, or MX: $199 (shop for Illustrator CS3) Overall, the transition to Mac OS X was relatively ...