By Adriana Sanson Mederos on Monday, October 12, 2015 at 1:53 PM

Here's a list of great new features in Artisan5 that everyone should try at least once and a great reason to migrate to it if you have a 64 bit PC and meet all the other minimum software requirements... 

• The font manager is one of the things that I didn't know I needed but absolutely LOVE

• Love the ability to work on two pages and change the shape of an element or text box!

• The ability to change a shape after it is created!! (It's the main reason I upgraded!!)

• The ability to make custom shaped text boxes, and then edit the shape of them to make if just right, is awesome!

• The green lines for aligning! So efficient!!

• The live photo mask!

• The ability to really edit embellishments to make them exactly what I wanted.

• The fun strokes

• Love being able to override the built-in line spacing on a font. I have a bunch of cute fonts that I could never use before because the lines of text were too far apart for my page. But now I can change that!

• The ability to create a duplicate page but "mirrored". I do a lot of 2 page layouts and found myself duplicating the page and then having to manually move everything.

• The workable clipping masks

• LOVE the text spacing - SO easy

• Love that anything can be a photo drop point!

• Love that you can edit anything with the right click on your mouse!

• Love the blending features and that the sky is the limit for creating different blended outcomes!

• Excited to be able to access my content so quickly! I like how the content manager just pops out and remembers where you are! lol! I am also excited to see how the font organizing works. AND the other thing I am totally excited about is choosing the size of your paper that you want to fill into a shape.

• SPEED! SOOOOO MUCH FASTER!!!!

• Love that when you're filling a shape with paper you can choose what part of the paper to use.

• Most excited about being able to work on two page spreads without having to save.

• Like the sampling and applying formats, shadows, effects, etc.

• Love how you can use strokes and a shape together - I put the feet stroke around a hiking quote

• Making a border on photos!

• Since I have my artwork sorted by designer, ie. one designer = 1 library, I can click the entire designer/library and bring in all of the kits at once for this designer. This is cool when you know the designer has something but can't remember which kit it is in.