Adobe Illustrator CS6 is a powerful vector drawing tool that includes everything you'll need for design, web and video projects.
Most plugins below are usable with all versions of Photoshop under Mac OS X, 9 and earlier, and Windows (if you need a version that's not here, please write to us).Should also work with Elements, AfterEffects, Premiere, PhotoDeluxe, Corel PhotoPaint, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, Painter, Photo Impact etc. (incomplete list). A version of Mac OS is mainly of ” 7.0, 7.5,8.5,10.4″ For download, the Adobe Illustrator CS6 following are some Technical Requirements.
One major headline this time is the new focus on performance. True 64-bit support and Adobe's Mercury Performance System play a big part in improving responsiveness, but Adobe have also been identifying and resolving bottlenecks all around the package. The previous Gaussian blur implementation wasn't the best, for instance, but it's been optimised for CS6, and as a result Gaussian blurs (and effects which depend on them, such as drop shadows and glows) are now much, much faster.
It's a similar story with the interface. There's an obvious new look (you can even tweak the UI brightness to your personal taste), but Adobe report making more than 40 usability tweaks to the Illustrator interface, from easier font changes to inline editing of layer names.
And workspace management just generally works a little more like you'd always hoped. So even options which were previously hidden away, such as the Shape and Pen tools, can now be torn off and docked. And you can dock tools horizontally or vertically to organise your workspace just how you'd like.
You're looking for something more? Illustrator CS6 is relatively short on the big new features. There's a new image tracing engine to help you convert raster images to vectors, for instance, and the program can now easily create seamless tiled vector patterns, but that's about it.
Is it worth the upgrade, then? Tricky: the performance enhancements and UI tweaks are welcome, but may not be enough to justify the outlay. We'd recommend you try before you buy.
Please note, the file you'll download here is Adobe's Download Manager, which will then fetch and install Illustrator for you. It's a huge file, though, so patience will probably be required.
Verdict:
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Illustrator CS6 is notably faster and smarter then the previous edition. It's otherwise a little short on major new additions, but that's no great surprise as the program already did just about everything you could want, and it remains the best vector drawing tool around
Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator...and other software
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Adobe Photoshop and Elements pluginsIn general, each plugin can be used with all versions of Photoshop (3.0-7.0, CS, CS2), under Mac OS X, 9 and earlier, and Windows.Should also work with other compatible programs such as Elements, AfterEffects, Premiere, PhotoDeluxe, Corel PhotoPaint, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, Painter, Photo Impact etc. (incomplete list). For information about using these and other Photoshop plugins with the GIMP (on Linux), see this page and issue 6 of fullcircle magazine. | Free and Open Source software is only possible in a world free of software patents. | ||
ICO (Windows Icon) FormatAn easy way to create your web site's favourites/shortcut/bookmark icon in Photoshop. FREE, $5 donation suggested if you love the plugin. (MacHouse has a video tutorial on making a favicon.) New beta now supports Windows cursor (CUR) format:Mac CS3,4,Mac CS5. (If you're looking for a plugin for OS X 'icns' icons, try Zonic IconLab.) | Free download:
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ICOBundle utilityCombines multiple ICO images (e.g. created by the above plugin) into a single ICO file. More infoAlso of interest, to Linux/UNIX/OS X users, may be the icoutils package (extract, convert icons etc). | Free download: | Free download: |
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WebP FormatFile Format plugin that opens and saves 24-bit WebP images (Google's proposed compression format for images on the web). | Free download:
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Filter FoundryA compatible and improved replacement for Adobe Filter Factory. Now fully scriptable! Also see Filter Forge: seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, frames and more. Filter Forge has released 4 free plugins, comprising 7 filters each. | Free download:
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Big PNGLibPNG-based Photoshop file format plugin that is much faster than Photoshop's built-in PNG format, and supports 16 bit images. It also removes the 30,000 pixel limit, allowing PNGs of practically any size to be opened and saved. | Free download:
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Photoshop file (PSD) Extract/Recover tool This plugin lets you grab image layers from any PSD/PSB file. It's faster than opening the whole PSD in Photoshop, if you just want a layer. Also, it lets you open PSD created by the newest versions of Photoshop, in older Photoshop versions that cannot read them directly. Most importantly, it can usually recover image layers from corrupted PSD files that Photoshop won't open (if Photoshop opens with damage, this plugin recovers a more intact image). | Free download:
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Electric Image (EIAS) FormatImage format plugin - also reads .EIZ ElectricImage Z-buffer depth files. For all versions of Photoshop including CS and CS2.Improve throughput of your .img files for use in Electric Image Animation System in excess of 100X! If you work in EIAS Animator you cannot do without this one. A typical benchmark saving 57MB file:
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QuickTime Component for Electric Image formatImports IMG files larger than 2GB. | Free download:
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Paint Shop Pro FormatOpen and Save PSP 5-9 format files (including .pspimage, etc.) from Photoshop. (Has also proved useful in recovering image data from otherwise unopenable PSP files.) FREE, $5 donation suggestedMore info | Free download:
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TIFFlib Format PluginOpen and Save TIFF files using the versatile libtiff library. This supports a wider variety of TIFF flavours and compression types than the built-in Photoshop TIFF format. Also adds the ability to save in a wider range of compression types, including G3 and G4 fax. More info | Free download:
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Cylinder Distort Filter (Photoshop)Wrap an image (for example, a label) around a cylinder or bottle. More info | |||
RASTUSCreates high resolution stochastically screened (screenless, also known as FM screened) bitmaps from halftone images.'The holy grail ... has always been to trick the imagesetter into continuous tone behavior. If there's a better way than RASTUS, I have yet to see it.' (Peter Ellzey, Copygraphics)Price reduced to $49.More info | Download demo: | Download demo:
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Life FilterFilter implementing Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton. More info | Free download: | Free download:
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Count Colours Filter / Count ColorsCounts distinct RGB colours in an image or selection. Also counts distinct values in single channels. Now works with both 8 and 16 bit images. | Free download:
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Histotext FilterExport image histogram counts as a text file. | Free download: | Free download:
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12bits FilterReduces colour depth of each channel of an image to 4 bits/16 values (4096 colours).Useful for cell phones and mobile devices. More info | Free download:
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5_6_5 FilterReduces colour depth of channels to 5 bits red, 6 bits green, 5 bits blue (total 16 bits or 65536 colours).Applies error diffusion dither. Useful for cell phones, mobile, and tablet devices, including Android image formats.Also includes 5/5/5 variation (32768 colours). | Free download:
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SGI FormatReads and writes SGI (Irix) RGB image files, 8 or 16 bits/channel, in RLE or uncompressed formats. While Photoshop 'Goodies' include this format, this plugin has fewer bugs, is faster, and works with all versions of Photoshop, on all platforms. More info | Free download:
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MacPaint FormatBefore Photoshop, there was MacPaint. This plugin is a small homage to the magic. Vive FatBits! | Free download:
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WBMP/WBM FormatType 0 uncompressed Wireless Bitmap format plugin. While Photoshop 7 includes this format, this plugin works with all versions of Photoshop, on all platforms. | Free download: | Free download:
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8XI (TI-83 Plus) FormatReads (bitmap) images in 8XI format, as used by TI-83 Plus devices. Basic support for saving exists but I do not have documentation on the header fields (please help :) | Free download:
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DITABIS/DIBIS 'micron' FormatThis file format is used by imaging equipment from Digital Biomedical Imaging Systems AG. (This plugin was commissioned by DITABIS and is released under the GPL with their permission.) | Free download:
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GBA Export (GameBoy Advance images)A specialised plugin for exporting images to GBA development tools. More info | Download demo: | Download demo:
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Netpbm (PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM) FormatsReads and writes Netpbm portable image formats; a.k.a. portable anymap, bit map (bitmap), gray map (graymap), or pixel map (pixmap). | Free download: | Free download:
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Scramble FilterBreak an image into square or rectangular blocks, and rearrange them randomly, like a sliding block puzzle.(For more sophisticated puzzles, such as jigsaws, see AV Bros. Puzzle Pro.) More info | Free download:
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Radial Distort FilterA filter which performs a particular kind of artwork distortion. More info | Free download: | Free download: |
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Cylinder Distort Filter (Illustrator)Wrap artwork (for example, a label) around a cylinder or bottle. More info | |||
Pathlength FilterComputes the length (perimeter) of Illustrator paths. More info | Free download: | Free download: |
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Patharea FilterComputes the area and length of Illustrator paths. Note that in CS4, filters appear under the Object menu. | Free download: | Free download: |
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Pathtotext FilterExports a text file (tab delimited) of selected path coordinates. Note that in CS4, filters appear under the Object menu. | Free download: | Free download: |
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TooldemoAn example of a plugin tool which creates a logarithmic graph of a simple function. More info | Free download: | Free download: |
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Sine curves/waves in PostScriptA simple but accurate PostScript method for plotting sine waves. Can be used directly by Illustrator and Photoshop. More info |
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E-mailer friendly HTML chess setHTML chessboard and GIF chesspieces for the purpose of playing correspondence chess by e-mail. More info | |||
DownloadMPW tool for downloadingPostScript to network printers. | Download MPW tool for | ||
TIFF ViewerA very basic, but fast! TIFF Viewer (Mac only) for antialiased browsing of multipage 1-bit TIFF files (e.g. faxes, scanned documents or manuals). More info | Free download: | (also requires libtiff and zlib to build)
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PDP-8 and DG Nova assemblerAn assembler for two interesting architectures, written with the aid of lex and yacc (flex/bison). More info |
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exprparserA simple lex/yacc (Flex/Bison) based expression parser and evaluator. More info |
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psdparseCommand-line (Terminal) tool to parse Photoshop PSD format files, describe salient structure as text, and dump layers to PNG files (sample dump). Also may be effective in recovering damaged PSD files. MPW or a Windows environment such as Cygwin or MinGW. | Free download: |
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psd2xcfStandalone command-line (Terminal) tool to convert Photoshop layered PSD files into Gimp's XCF (v1) format. Also may help recover damaged PSD files. Very fast and reliable conversion (e.g. less than 2 seconds to convert a 40MB PSD to compressed XCF, on a 2004 model PC). Note: Currently converts image layers only. | Free download: |
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PDP-11 back-end for lccPDP-11 target for the lcc retargetable ANSI C compiler. May be useful as a straightforward case study, see commentary: More info |
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PIC/IDEHardware/software interface Microchip PIC18 microcontrollers to ATA(PI)/IDE devices. More info |
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Subversion/BugzillaScript and post-commit hook to annotate Bugzilla bugs with Subversion commit messages. Partly inspired by Sean Foy's work, but greatly simplified for situations where Svn and Bz run on the same server. Versions provided for Bugzilla 2.18.x and 2.20. |
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Subversion log XML to RSSXSLT stylesheet which transforms the output ofsvn log --xml (e.g. as produced by a post-commit hook) into RSS 2.0 XML. |
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fifobot for JabberJabber bot which takes lines from a FIFO and announces them into group chat. Includes a complementary Subversion post-commit hook which posts one-line commit summaries to a FIFO. |
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