Adobe Illustrator

Software Overview

Adobe Illustrator is an industry-standard drawing program used to create and modify vector graphics, such as logos, web graphics, mobile & web layouts, icons, signs, and artwork. It provides a customizable drawing canvas, various drawing tools, and support for numerous graphic formats.

Illustrator feels and functions similar to Photoshop, Adobe's flagship app, but it uses paths rather than bitmaps, to create images. This difference allows Illustrator to alter and resize drawings without reducing the quality of the images.

The Illustrator workspace includes a drawing canvas, known as an artboard, surrounded by various configurable toolbars and palettes. You can customize the workspace by hiding, revealing, and moving palettes to a preferred arrangement. You can also edit multiple artboards concurrently to streamline document editing across drawings.

Illustrator includes advanced features, such as color blending capabilities for creating photorealistic gradients and global editing for simultaneously modifying similar objects across multiple artboards. The program also provides more accessible Adobe fonts that you can preview and activate within Illustrator. In addition, the software supports many other convenient tools that make the graphics workflow more efficient.

Adobe Illustrator integrates with other Creative Cloud (CC) programs through interchangeable file formats and saves artwork in its native Adobe Illustrator (.AI) format, by default. The software also supports industry-standard graphics files such as .PSD, .JPEG, .PNG, .EPS, .FXG, .SVG, .DWG, and .DXF.

Summary

If you are a drawing professional, you will find it hard to replace Illustrator with an alternative vector graphics editor, especially with the convenience of its integration with other Adobe CC applications. Its robust features and ability to help create clean, professional-quality graphics make Adobe Illustrator a high-quality choice for serious vector art graphics professionals.

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.AIAdobe Illustrator Artwork

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