The shape automatically resizes as you edit the text. Using Live Shapes cuts down on the time designers spend when creating Web page buttons. Double-click on any of these attributes to reedit them or save a group of attributes as a Style. This process is powerful but cumbersome, with confusing nomenclature. Surprisingly, you can't turn off attributes temporarily in the Appearance palette.
Illustrator has creative, fine control over effects.
For instance, you can isolate Blend modes to affect only the colors in a user-defined group of objects. When Knockout is turned on for a transparency group, the uppermost object blocks the other objects in the group, but the transparency feature shows objects underneath that are not part of that group. Illustrator now features opacity masks. The gray scale of any object may mask what you see of underlying objects. Though rather clumsy, these powerful opacity masks are much like alpha channels in Photoshop, in that they can use any gradient, pattern, or image.