Control panel enhancements

The Control panel now provides you with access to anchor controls if you select one, or multiple anchor points in a path. Note that this exposes another handy new feature, the ability to delete multiple anchor points without breaking a path. The Control panel now also gives you direct access to Envelope Distortion options. It also lets you apply a rectangular Clipping Mask to an image, and gives you access to Select Similar options. If there isn't enough room to display all of the icons, specific groups of icons are collapsed, based on what is selected in the document. Clicking on a collapsed icon link gives you quick access to that panel.

In this tutorial:

1. What's New in Adobe Illustrator CS3
2. Workspace improvements
3. Control panel enhancements
4. Document startup profiles
5. Drawing enhancements
6. The Eraser tool
7. Live Color
8. Layers panel enhancements
9. The Crop tool
10. Symbol workflow improvements
11. Enhanced support for digital video workflows
12. Dynamic and input text