Jun 21, 2017 Open Adobe illustrator. It's a yellow and brown app that contains the letters 'Ai.' This wikiHow teaches you how to use the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator for Windows or Mac.
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Adobe was a bit busy on Wednesday, releasing new versions of its Creative Cloud suite, new hardware, and three new iOS apps—two of them sketching and drawing-related. Adobe Sketch and Line may have been conceived as vehicles for the company’s Ink and Slide stylus and ruler, but the apps easily stand on their own as fantastic applications for drawing and drafting enthusiasts. Both apps are compatible with the fourth-generation iPad or later and first-generation iPad mini or later.
Adobe Sketch: Paper’s spiritual cousin
The first of the two apps, Adobe Sketch, is a beautifully-constructed app that often-times looks like Paper’s minimalistic, unskeuomorphic cousin. There are five tools available at your disposal: pencil, pen, ink, marker, and an eraser. Next to those tools is a color picker, where you can choose a color theme, pick from the color wheel, check your color history, or pull a color theme from an uploaded image.
The digital tools are all very well thought-out renderings, though they still don’t quite surpass the bar that Paper set last year. But they’re all very close, and the app’s Creative Cloud integration gives it an extra boost for Adobe loyalists. Adobe’s Behance portfolio network is built into the app so that you can share drafts and final products with your followers; in addition, you can send and pull drawings from your Creative Cloud storage any time you’re connected to a network. (You get 2GB with your Adobe ID; you can add an additional 20GB of storage space for $2/month.)
Sketch and Line both offer great Multi-Touch gestures for undo, redo, scrubbing, and panning; they’re not quite what you may have used in previous drawing programs, but Adobe offers quick video tutorials in the app to get you comfortable. You can swipe two fingers to the left or right to undo or redo; use three fingers along the bottom of the screen to scrub through your history; and a use two finger tap and hold to pan and zoom around your canvas. One word of warning: If you’re using the Ink stylus and enable palm rejection, these gestures become rather difficult to perform.
Of course, Sketch’s big draw (no pun intended) is its pairing with Adobe’s new Ink and Slide stylus tools. And the pairing is seamless—much like Paper, all you have to do is tap the stylus nib to the Connection Center screen to connect your device. Once you do that, you can customize your stylus’s colored top and see its battery life, right from the app. Adobe’s Slide ruler doesn’t have an official pairing ritual, but instead seems to magically pair and unpair with the device whenever it’s touching or removed from the iPad screen.
For those without access to Adobe’s new hardware, Sketch also offers a digital companion in the form of Touch Slide. There are two blue touch targets to move the virtual ruler in any direction; once you’re happy with the ruler’s positioning, just draw along the ruler edge with your other hand. It works really well, and it’s a powerful addition for people who want to draw straight lines in their compositions.
Adobe Line: A love letter to shapes and figures
While Sketch is a solid program in its own right, Line is an outright masterwork from Adobe: an easy-to-use app with incredible power behind it. At its heart, the app is designed to help you easily draft and draw shapes, lines, and other geometrical objects. It does so with a wide array of guides (called Trace Packs and Stamp Packs) that you can enlarge, resize, and twist on your canvas.
Like Sketch, Line has a variety of tools you can use to trace these objects, all named for various real-world objects. There’s a 2H pencil, HB pencil, .25MM pen, .50MM pen, brush, marker, and eraser; all of which can be laid down in a variety of colors.
And oh, the things you can trace. Lines, shapes, French curves, ellipses, rectangles, triangles, polgyons, Herman Miller chairs—the possibilities are enormous.
Tracing is made possible with the Touch Slide or physical Slide ruler, depending on what you have access to. As mentioned above, the Touch Slide works by using two fingers to move the virtual ruler around; moving the actual Slide tool around performs the same trick. As you move, you’ll either have the option to draw a line along the ruler’s path or see a greyed shape hovering above the ruler, giving you an idea of where your stamp or circle will land.
The canvas also offers snapping and guide lines, and—even cooler—a full perspective view to help you with vanishing points, grid work, and more.
I was never the type of artist growing up with a fascination for rulers and perspective lines, but I love playing with Line. And the more I tool around with it, the more drafter’s tricks I find myself picking up. (I can only imagine the kind of work actual architects and those with training might get done with this kind of program.)
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And, of course, like Sketch, you can share all of your Line documents on Behance or export them to Creative Cloud, where you can move them to your desktop to further tweak and improve.
Bottom line
Adobe has released two excellent free apps (they require an Adobe ID but no paid Creative Cloud subscription) for artists, sketchers, doodlers, stampers, and all-around creative folk. Between these two, Adobe Photoshop Mix, and the recently-released Adobe Voice, the company’s suite of free iOS apps and its Creative Cloud mission is starting to look more compelling every day.
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It’s been an exhilarating six months since we released the first public beta version of Adobe XD, available for Mac OS, back in March ‘16.
While we were confident in our approach to delivering Adobe XD, there’s nothing quite like the reality of shipping the product, measuring the level of interest, working through the feedback and analysing the usage data, so as to understand whether we were on the right trajectory or whether we needed to rethink the approach.
Thankfully the response has been amazing! We’re excited to announce that we will be delivering several major new capabilities in the coming months, including layers, symbols and real-time mobile preview – culminating in a milestone release on Mac that we believe will be ready for everyday use by UX designers.
When we first started working on Adobe XD, we wanted to focus on a single platform to ensure that we were on the right path to creating something of true value. Focusing on one platform enabled us to iterate and adjust quickly, before committing to multi-platform development. We heard from our existing customers on Mac that they were dealing with the friction that came from trying to use non-Adobe tools alongside those from Creative Cloud, so we decided to start with that platform.
Now that we have established a solid foundation with Adobe XD on Mac, we’re working as fast as we can to “catch up” on Windows. At the same time as we’re catching up, we also want to ensure we’re building a next-generation design tool that takes advantage of the latest hardware and software, so as to really deliver something special for designers on Windows. That means we’re not just porting the product from Mac to Windows, but rather, we’re investing in a completely new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that will be available exclusively on Windows 10.
UWP represents the future of the Windows platform, opening up opportunities for us to leverage the latest touch-enabled hardware and to deliver Adobe XD to a future generation of Windows-based devices.
Adobe XD is the first UWP app from Adobe, which means there is a lot of learning along the way. Not only do we need to deliver Adobe XD, but also Windows 10 versions of the supporting libraries and components that every Adobe application relies upon. So, while we understand (and appreciate) the desire to get Adobe XD on Windows as soon as possible, we are taking the time needed to craft a unique UWP-based experience.
While the core feature set will be the same across Mac and Windows, as will our focus on performance and stability, Adobe XD for Windows will be different than on Mac – the experience will be customized for the unique capabilities offered by Windows 10 hardware. For example, only on Windows 10 will Adobe XD offer full support for both pen and touch – meaning that you can fluidly zoom and pan your document, create vector artwork and connect wires between screens of your prototype by using touch-based input. Designing and creating prototypes using touch on Windows feels completely natural and will make Adobe XD feel even more special for Windows users.
As eager as we are to release XD for Windows as soon as possible, our approach is to make it available when it’s ready – we really want to deliver a product that you look forward to using every day.
That said, we also need feedback from designers on Windows to help us get there – if you’re the adventurous type and would like access to a pre-release version of Adobe XD on Windows you can let us know here. We’d love to get your input as we craft our Windows 10 experience.
For everyone else, we’re aiming to deliver our first Windows public beta release towards the end of 2016. That first release will not have feature parity with the Mac version, but you’ll see rapid progress with each of the subsequent monthly releases, getting to an aligned set of capabilities across Mac and Windows versions of Adobe XD before you know it.
We hope you’re as excited about Adobe XD for Windows as we are – we promise it will be worth the wait ?
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You can reach out to our team here in the comments or @AdobeXD on Twitter – we look forward to hearing from you. In the meantime there are additional answers to common questions we’ve heard about our Windows release below.
Why only support Windows 10 and not earlier versions of Windows?
We’re building Adobe XD from the ground up and wanted to take advantage of the latest hardware and software platforms so as to provide a modern, high performance, future-proofed tool for UX designers.
Will the features on Mac and Windows be exactly the same?
The core feature set across both versions of Adobe XD will be consistent, but on each platform we’ll look to take advantage of native capabilities. We want the Mac OS version of Adobe XD to feel great on Mac and likewise, the Windows version to feel great on Windows 10 – designing and building specific versions of XD for each platform allows us to do this.
Will you support touch and pen features available on devices like the Surface Book?
Yes, absolutely – we’re excited to bring a fully pen and touch enabled Adobe XD experience to our customers using Windows 10.
Will the file format be compatible across Mac and Windows?
Why did you work on the Mac version first?
Back when we started working on Adobe XD, we wanted to focus on one platform to ensure that we were creating something of true value, with the ability to iterate and adjust quickly, before committing to multi-platform development. We heard that some of our existing customers on Mac were dealing with the friction that came from trying to use non-Adobe tools alongside those from Creative Cloud, so we decided to start there.
Why did you de-prioritize the Windows version relative to Mac?
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Initially, we wanted to focus on one platform to ensure that we were creating something of true value, with the ability to iterate and adjust quickly, before committing to multi-platform development.
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We’re on track to deliver a first public beta release of Adobe XD for Windows in late 2016, with subsequent monthly releases adding additional features and enhancements based on customer feedback. Once we’ve caught up to Mac features, you can expect continued parity with new capabilities coming to the Mac and Windows versions of Adobe XD at the same time.
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