Today I was looking for interesting images for a post to show off Adobe Creative Suite CS3 and I came across a post on koregrapik.com:

While the response from the community over the recently revealed re-branding of Adobe’s various applications has been negative for the most part, I find myself growing rather fond of Reader 8 and Photoshop CS3′s icons. Since Creative Suite 3 is a few months away, I thought now would be a good time to have the full set, 45 icons in all, ready.

The icons come in ICNS and PNG format. Enjoy!

Here is just a small sample of the 46 icons available in the download he has provided. We just love the icons! Check them out for yourself!

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As promised here are more free symbols to be used with Illustrator.

Fruits and Veggies

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The most revolutionary aspect of Illustrator is the introduction of its Graphic Symbols tools. These tools reduce file size and benefit manageability in much the same way that symbols are used in Flash. Beyond that, the tools make image repetition much easier and cut down the number of steps that are needed to do the same thing manually. Any object or group can be quickly turned into a symbol, and accessing it for reuse is as simple as selecting your symbol in the Symbols palette. Updating a symbol automatically updates every instance of that symbol in your document.

Eight new symbol tools on the toolbar help you manage and create quickly and easily. The Symbol Sprayer tool works very similarly to the Graphic Hose in Painter, quickly applying several instances on your artboard. Attributes such as size and angle can even be controlled by a pressure-sensitive tablet.

Once applied to the artboard, the other symbol tools can be used to modify the instances. Quickly change the rotation, distribution, size and position of each of a group of instances—the tools are impressively intuitive. The Symbol Stainer tool applies a raster-like colorizing effect to your symbols, and the Screener tool applies eraser-like transparency effects that would make you swear you were working in Photoshop. Plus, you can use the Symbol Styler tool to apply preset or user-created styles in varying amounts to your symbols!

Of course you have the option to break the link between placed symbol instances and the original if you wish to modify the objects without making a global change, but this means you lose the benefit of smaller file sizes or being able to make global symbol changes.

The applications for these tools are wide and varied. Not only do they make for efficient and small files, but they also open up new creative possibilities.

Installing the symbols couldn’t be easier, drag and drop the symbol file into Illustrator. The symbol is then opened inside of Illustrator and you can save the symbol to a symbol library by clicking on the symbols palette then click the small triangle button which opens a options menu for the symbols. The last option in the menu is to save the symbol library once you select save a window will open up to the default symbols folder inside of Illustrator, give it a name and press save. That’s it! Now the symbols can be selected from the same menu by selecting the open symbol library and selecting the library that you would like to open.

We have gathered free symbols from the web and have them here for you to download. There are many different symbols available from Christmas Lights, Cell Phones, Aqua Orbs and Credit Cards just to name a few. As we find more symbols we will post them for here for everyone to download and use. Get creative with these symbols and send us your artwork so we can showcase it here on Blogtology.

The Symbols

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One of our readers submitted his Illustrator Artwork:

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Although the formal formal announcement (can you tell that Adobe is trying to build some buzz around this thing?) is not happening until later today, Adobe officially announced CS3 early this morning. The apps that make up the entire CS3 product line include:

• Photoshop CS3
• Photoshop CS3 Extended
• InDesign CS3
• Illustrator CS3
• Flash CS3 Professional
• Dreamweaver CS3
• After Effects CS3
• Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
• Adobe Contribute CS3
• Adobe Fireworks CS3
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
• Adobe Soundbooth CS3
• Adobe Encore CS3

There are also the same six packages:

• Adobe Creative Suite Design Standard and Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite Web Standard and Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite Master Suite

(Each package that has both standard and premium count as two packages.) All of the above listed packages will be shipping in April 2007, save the Production Premium and Master Suite which will be shipping in the third quarter of 2007.
This is the first release from Adobe that has incorporated the portfolio acquired from Macromedia, and Adobe describes it as their “largest release in Adobe’s history.” For anyone who’s still dying to check out the launch event in New York City, feel free to check out the invite and/or the live webcast at 3:30pm ET.

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