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October 22, 2019
Best vector design software on the market
Utilized for everything from single-page print mockups to logo design, super-fast wireframing, flow charts and infographics. Where simple Powerpoint and Word art files won't suffice, we have an amazing way to really bring RFPs, proposals and conference materials to life in a vector (scalable) way that makes amazing graphics for social sharing, web and print use alike.
- Logo creation
- Single page flyer design/fast comps for digital pieces
- Infographics
- Charts with far more custom options than Excel provides
- This is a tough one: I feel the system is incredibly powerful and incorporates beautifully with the CC suite.
- The system can on occasion seem a bit slow to 'recognize' a new font that's been added through the external font management system, so it sometimes takes a few (or even a restart of the program) for it to 'see' a missing font that's been reactivated, but this may be local to my machine and network.
- The pop-out menu for the pen/anchor point tool used to be more robust, including the ability to add and delete points as well as adjust vector paths all from one condensed little menu, I do wish that arrangement would return.
I use Illustrator almost every day. I am primarily an animator, but many of the project files I am sent are Illustrator files or can be easily manipulated within Illustrator. It allows me to work with files and prepare them for animation, as well as creating new art files when needed.
- Illustrator has tons of options for creation. I feel confident in saying that if you can dream up any sort of 2d design, it can be recreated within Illustrator.
- Illustrator can handle .pdf files and other types of image files. I find this helpful when I'm working on a number of different file types, so compatibility isn't usually an issue for me with Illustrator.
- Illustrator has many tools that are easy to use once you've learned some basic understanding of how they can be used. The software is incredibly complex and offers many ways to accomplish whatever design tasks you are interested in.
- Illustrator offers pretty good compatibility between itself and other Adobe programs, so I've found that to be a great thing when working within the Adobe Suite.
- It feels as if Adobe products are all created individually, and as if all of the developers work in different parts of the world. Even though there are great advantages to using these applications in tandem. They don't share keyboard shortcuts, and there are other things that work one way in one program, but work differently in Illustrator.
- Illustrator is complex and has an incredibly steep learning curve. I've been using it for the last 6 years or so, and I feel I've only scratched the surface. Adobe does an OK job of providing tutorials, but you have to look for them online, and even then, you might find better tutorials on YouTube.
I use Adobe Illustrator CC currently to create and design our social media content, print media, and website design. I am the only user, but I am the one that the company goes to with questions, requests, and the like for making sure that our content is fresh, current, and modern looking.
- Lots of options for sizes (inches, points, pixels)
- No bounds to creativity and what you can make
- Love the ability I have to take something I create within Illustrator and make tweaks within other Adobe products, such as Photoshop and Premiere.
- It might be my computer, but it takes a while to load each time I'm opening up the application.
- Sometimes certain tools along the side bar don't work, which can be a pain when you have to figure out how to get them to work again in your current work space.
November 12, 2019
Adobe Illustrator - the vector drawing package that will make a man (or woman) out of you!
At Lennis Design, LLC, we use Adobe Illustrator CC for vector logos and shirt designs. We also use it for any print work we're producing and having outsourced. It's flexible and the industry standard so we always know the vendor we're working with has a template so we can give them their native format. Working with multiple vendors is much easier when you use the same tools and files.
- Illustrator is a very robust toolset with tons of ways of accomplishing the same things - you can take the path that makes you most comfortable (most of the time).
- Illustrator is an industry standard - many people make videos on YouTube to show how to accomplish things so you can learn from them without reinventing the wheel (so to speak).
- Illustrator does a good job of pretending to make organic shapes using the variable tools to tweak your lines. It allows the seasoned user to create truly stunning images that encompass their imagination.
- Complicated and dense - Illustrator has so many ways of doing the same thing, it's easy to get lost. Much like Photoshop, you can use it for years and never even notice tons of tools that might make your life easier if you could only tell how they worked.
- Hotkeys are sometimes weird (compared to Photoshop).
- Pen tool separates the newbs from the pros. If you can't use the pen tool and you want to work with Illustrator every day you will have difficulty. I'm only halfway decent after taking a Masters class and I could definitely improve.
November 01, 2019
Illustrator for high quality graphics and designs
Adobe Illustrator is used mainly by our marketing department for many purposes. It is one of the best tools that we used for designing all our marketing materials that include flyers, brochures, postcards and any graphic designs for our school website or social media. Illustrator provides us with everything that we need for vector and graphics designs.
- Flexible graphics tool.
- High-quality graphics.
- The best vector tool so far.
- Very convenient price and comes with adobe creative cloud package.
- Suitable for almost anything related to printed marketing materials.
- Not suitable for beginners.
- Requires training to know how to use it.
October 29, 2019
Illustrator CC is worth the money!
As a graphic designer, I use Adobe Illustrator CC when designing logos. When designing a logo you always want the artwork to be vector so Illustrator is the best program for that. It is worth every penny spent and all the updates to the program over the years have only made it better.
- Making charts and graphs.
- Designing logos.
- Using live trace to quickly re-draw something.
- No improvement needed.
October 27, 2019
A must-have software for professional designers
We have access to educational priced Adobe Creative Cloud licensing. We use Adobe Illustrator in a variety of ways from teaching to professional graphic design. Students use Adobe Illustrator in Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Communications courses. Example professional uses include signage, printed publications, logos, web graphics, presentations, and infographics.
- You can create multi-layered illustrations or graphics.
- You can use the layers and styles to create many versions of a document from the same file.
- You can export your art in a variety of formats that suite high-resolution print and 4K screens as well as images tailored to small screens or the web.
- Vector art files can scale endlessly with no loss of detail.
- The drawing tool is not as intuitive as the much older and no longer available tool in Freehand.
- Make it easier or more intuitive to add points to a shape.
- Make it easier or more intuitive to edit a shape by moving a point or changing it from curve to straight.
Adobe Illustrator is currently used by our 2D and 3D design teams. Not only does it serve its main purpose as a vector design software but it also bridges the gap between 2D & 3D by offering a way of 2D designers to work with CAD files when quick changes need to be made.
- Lightweight vector design software - our go-to to quickly put together scamps for a proposal, or mockup some initial icons or logos.
- Rips PDFs apart - when you're working with limited resources Adobe Illustrator lets you take any PDF and claim assets for use elsewhere, regardless of the software used to create it.
- Great for typographic exploration - if you want to quickly try out a type combo, illustrator handles fonts beautifully without the restrictions software such as Adobe Indesign or Photoshop can put on your workflow.
- Mobile - Adobe lacks a full mobile version of Illustrator, which would be very handy when working on an iPad when you're out of the office. Affinity Designer does this well.
- Half pixels - Illustrator can annoyingly play with half pixels, which when designing for web or email, can be extremely frustrating for developers.
- Improved handling of complex files - Illustrator tends to get bogged down as soon as you insert complex drawings or large amounts of artboards.
Currently, we don't use Adobe Illustrator so much, but in the past, it has been crucial to our design work. It's no reflection on Illustrator, it's more that the nature of our work has changed. We've used Illustrator primarily for print design, but I also find it to be far superior to word processors for simple but important things like resumes.
- Illustrator provides incredible precision and flexibility for two-dimensional design.
- I find that I call upon Illustrator for my first drafts of anything visual because it is so versatile. It's a great place to sketch out ideas which can then either be fleshed out within the program, or switched over to something different like InDesign, XD, or AfterEffects.
- I love using it for resumes.
- The most recent interface redesign is annoying. I can't find things where I expect to find them, especially critical tools like Align.
- The way selections get made is harder than it needs to be.
- Also, the way text boxes have to be created is kind of weird. It's like Illustrator took text boxes from Quark, but it was just fine without them.
October 09, 2019
My thoughts on Adobe Illustrator CC
We are using it to design events, diagrams, designing banners etc. We also were using to design invites for events on campus. Other uses, programs for events, menu cards for events. Other uses have been event items that we will be designing, mock ups of any types, event proposals of any type.
- Great at being able to move items, as far as editing
- I enjoy the different tools it offers
- Enjoy being able to create diagrams
- Sometimes not very intuitive
- I wish there was more help as far as new features and tools
December 13, 2019
The 'Standard' for Digital Artwork and Design
Our graphic designers and marketing professionals use Adobe Illustrator frequently for vector-based artwork and conversion to prepare and produce artwork for our needs. As the industry standard, it is easiest to implement and train with.
- Industry standard for vector design
- A wide variety of tools to use
- Learning curve can be steep
- Faster implementation of updates to match new operating systems
October 30, 2019
Adobe Illustrator CC | Versatile and easy-to-use
It is being used within the marketing/creative department and it addresses our graphic design abilities.
- Allows vectorization of artwork
- Easy-to-follow guidelines and tutorials
- Allows extensive design edits
- It a massive program that can sometimes slow down other programs on my computer.
- More tutorials, there could never be enough.
- Tutorials within the program that guide you through your design live.
October 15, 2019
Works great if you make booklets
As a forum, we produce some brochures and background papers for distribution to the participants. We use Illustrator CC to design the cover. It's used by our whole team. It's very helpful and it works well with Photoshop, Indesign, and Adobe CC.
- Compatible with InDesign, Photoshop, and Adobe CC so objects can be placed into each other as is, without converting into a different format.
- Easy to use for cover design, and easy to draw.
- It is demanding for the RAM of the computer - We had to upgrade the RAM to 16G otherwise it's way too slow and the laptop may crash.
- For beginners it's a little hard to use with so many buttons and interfaces.
February 20, 2020
Adobe Illustrator CC in a school
We use Adobe Illustrator CC at our school mainly in our computer lab. We purchased the entire creative cloud for use in this lab so that our students can get some graphic design experience. They have mainly used Adobe Illustrator to create simple graphics, but myself and another teacher use it for creating more advanced graphics to be used around the school. We have sometimes used it to create fliers to be put around the school, on the website, and to be given to students to take home.
- Creating graphics.
- Can be very fast.
- It is a large program which means it can take up a lot of space.
- It can be a little difficult to learn if you haven't ever used it before.
December 13, 2019
Best software for creating vector art
I use Adobe Illustrator to create high-end vector artwork (mainly for logos). This is the standard program we use for working with vector art across our organization. Adobe Illustrator solves the problem of being able to provide our clients with a polished, finished product that they can then use in a variety of formats.
- Integration with other Adobe products is seamless.
- The image trace feature has been enhanced over the years, and in this version it is able to create vector art easily ands with much more accuracy.
- Working with artboards makes creating multiple versions a breeze.
- The free distort/transform feature is still difficult to use.
- The color libraries function is difficult to navigate.
- Some of the tools that ares supposed to be "just like Photoshop" are not just like Photoshop.
November 05, 2019
Powerful software with limitless features!
Adobe Illustrator CC is being used by the whole organization and is currently being used to create vector graphics for product photos, advertising, and website graphics and icons.
- It is great for creating vector graphics.
- Great for creating animations or cartoons.
- Create logos and artwork for websites.
- Ease of use or get started with it for a new user could use some extra improvement.
- It can be intimidating for a new user to begin using the software if they have not had any experience with it prior.
November 01, 2019
Can't live without this program!
I use Adobe Illustrator CC almost daily for my companies' many graphic design needs. Illustrator is one of my favorite Adobe products because it is so user friendly but also powerful. I think this program is well-suited for an array of graphic design projects, anything from product design to signage and beyond.
- Logo design
- Shape making
- Illustration
- I hate when I hit a button and unknowingly change my workspace setup, or disable a setting, and then need to take hours of searching on forums to figure out why my program isn't doing the things I want it to. I'd love an undo button for times like this!
We use Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics including icons, illustrations, and logos. It addresses all of our vector needs. Our entire organization uses it in some form.
- Vector creation including icons, logos, and illustrations.
- Logo creation and export in different file formats.
- Gradients aren't the best in Illustrator. They almost always look a little off.
- I don't like using Illustrator for large body text. It's not made for that.
October 18, 2019
The Go-To Logo Design Software
Organizationally, Adobe Illustrator CC is used by several different departments. The main departments that utilize this platform are our Corporate Marketing team and our Graphic Design and Website Design teams. Adobe Illustrator allows our graphic designers to create detailed logos, icons, and graphic content for both internal purposes as well as for our clients. Having unique graphic content really helps our brand, as well as the brands we serve, differentiate themselves from the competition and attract new business.
- Adobe Illustrator CC is graphic design software that is primarily used to create detailed vector images.
- Opposed to its counterparts Photoshop & InDesign, Adobe Illustrator is used for creating logos and more advanced graphics with high resolutions.
- Granted Adobe's other design software products pick up any slack that Illustrator presents, I think they could integrate some native features that Photoshop and InDesign have to make this software more fully-functional.
- The snap-to features could be enhanced to better position and align different graphic aspects.
October 17, 2019
Illustrator is a must and a no-brainer.
Adobe Illustrator CC is used by our Marketing department, specifically by graphic artists and production artists. We support the marketing efforts of the entire company, which includes national and international offices. Main reason we use Adobe Illustrator CC is because it is one of the most supported, standard design applications available, and it works cross-platform.
- Logo and corporate ID design and development. No better app for this.
- Detailed editing of PDFs, including pulling out embedded images not otherwise available.
- File conversion, including the ability to simply copy from Adobe Illustrator CC and then paste into Adobe Photoshop CC.
- Color management. Creation of color palettes for use across all Adobe CC applications.
- An actual manual, like the old days.
- Simplified functionality.
- Easier way to spec and use colors.
September 12, 2019
Illustrator User For Over Ten Years
It's the primary software we use for vector and graphic design. It's being used across the marketing department in support of several retail portfolios including multi-family, office, retail, and events. When it comes to managing the number of projects we have as a team, Illustrator gives us the freedom to create marketing graphics in vector format, making them scalable without pixelation, i.e. if we create an 11x17 sized flyer, we can scale that to 1920x1080 vertical without any pixelation in the end product. This is useful in every area, including digital media, logos, etc.
- Vector-based graphics.
- Constant software updates that bring in quicker shortcuts and fixes.
- Integrate cloud library that allows you to access files from other Adobe products like Photoshop and InDesign.
- Sometimes bugs are found in new updates. It is cloud-based software, rather than a yearly update of buying new software, they have the ability to push out code and updates at any time.
- No other weaknesses.
September 12, 2019
One of the best design tools
Adobe Illustrator is a must use design tool in our company regardless of beginning a design process with other software. Tool has simple functionality for basic drawing, it's an enormously advanced graphic design tool with many features that can make designing projects easier. I have been able to make things as small as stickers, banners, buttons, and more. The usability is great even you are a designer or marketer.
- It is easy to use.
- It has the most important wide range of tools to create, modify and customize draws, images, vector, details, navigator, and more.
- Working with vectors is a great way to create very polished and clean designs.
- There is nothing that I currently dislike about using the software.
August 13, 2019
AI is the only app for the vector artist
We use Adobe Illustrator CC daily for our design work within our creative services division. We create new vector graphics and edit others for use in documents, websites, apps, and other digital marketing tasks. We could not do our job without it as the creation of vector images is necessary for us.
- Edit and create vector images.
- Connects with other adobe products.
- Useful for changing existing images.
- Backward compatibility of file formats.
- Save directly to creative cloud.
- Simplify panels.
We use Illustrator for designing vector graphics and branding materials in conjunction with other programs in Adobe's creative suite. It is used mostly by our designers and helps us produce large format graphics for marketing materials. We use it for both internal and external projects and we consider it a core app we use to conduct business.
- Managing vector formats is made pretty easy.
- Pro tools for creating digital illustrations.
- Robust features for complete control over your projects.
- You can jump in as a beginner, but it takes a long time to master some of the more advanced tools.
- It's a resource hog. If you're running multiple programs, make sure you have enough resources.
- Artboards can be confusing at first.
August 11, 2019
Illustrator is a must-have for creatives
Illustrator is used within our video department in order to create graphics and charts to implement in our educational videos. It is an absolute necessity and the fact that it is a part of Adobe cloud allows us to seamlessly work between Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere with less exporting and complications. It saves time and a fantastic way to keep our branding streamlined.
- Easy to use.
- You can personalize your layout to a workflow that works best for you.
- Integrates well between all other Adobe software.
- Illustrator has a tendency to lag if open too long.
- It took me a while to understand how to export all my layers to use in After Effects.
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