Adobe Illustrator

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Making charts and graphs.

Designing logos.

Using live trace to quickly re-draw something.

No improvement needed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

High quality graphics

Very flexible tool. The best vector tool in the market so far

Great for preparing flyers and brochures

Affordable plans for education institutions

Not for beginners

Requires a lot of training to master the software

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.

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.

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.

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.

A flexible tool that allows me to design anything I need.

High vectors quality for logo designs and for printing materials.

Amazing iPad Pro application with apple pencil.

There is a learning curve for this tool (not for beginners or casual users).

Requires a lot of training and practice to get the best of this tool.

Adobe Illustrator is probably the most powerful software for creating and editing vector-based graphics.

It integrates seamlessly with other Adobe systems, so in my case, bouncing back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop is a breeze.

Projects that require precision and unlimited resolution are perfect for Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe Illustrator is not limited to one operating system; it works with both Mac and Windows.

This isn't a fault of the software, but a downside is that there is a steep learning curve with Illustrator. Be prepared to learn the extensive set of tools and features.

Illustrator doesn't do as great a job when it comes to working with images. I bounce between Illustrator and Photoshop when I need to incorporate an image into my project.

Illustrator will eat up most of your computer's resources so it will require a powerful desktop/laptop.

Extremely robust vector editing tools are superior to most other vector graphics software. Illustrator has been the standard for two decades and continues to be.

Artboard flexibility. The addition of multiple, editable artboards a few generations ago allowed a single Illustrator file to be much more comprehensive, both for concept work and for multi-page/screen projects.

Integration with other Creative Cloud products is increasingly seamless.

Size limits on file dimensions is very frustrating for large-scale projects. The inability to work on a single 20ft event graphic or sign at actual size, let alone multiple concepts, forces inefficient workarounds.

Perhaps as much a criticism of the PDF file format, Illustrator cannot open more than one page of most PDFs. Being able to open multiple or all pages of a PDF in multiple artboards would be useful.

Snap to grid, pixel, and point still often feel imprecise or unpredictable years after their introduction as tools.

Adobe Illustrator renders vector based graphics well. It is a superior program for building logos, icons, etc.

This program is also great for creating large scale graphics; such as billboards, exhibits, and wall graphics.

This program also is very proficient with creating any web based layouts; like websites, eBlasts or eNewsletters.

Program tends to crash a bit when working with extremely large graphics.

Steep learning curve for the average beginner.

Depending on your level of use, the cost of this program can be high.

I used Illustrator to fix an intricate logo that had a typo. It was the kind fix that benefited from more robust tools.

Altering and repurposing a logo for a custom t-shirt design.

Creating different versions of the same graphic with different backgrounds (also, removing backgrounds entirely).

Illustrator has so many features and can feel like learning a new language if you're a beginner (thankfully, tutorial videos are everywhere).

With such a high level of sophistication, it can sometimes be tempting to use a simpler program (such as Paint) when the full suite feels like overkill.

The sheer scale of Illustrator's offerings can be daunting, so it requires some stick-to-it-iveness to not feel mired in it.

Adobe Illustrator makes it very easy to undo changes that you have made by using the keyboard shortcut ctzl z and redo a change by using ctrl y. While Photoshop has the History feature, sometimes ctrl z is much more useful because you can undo each change that you made quickly and see the differences before deciding to go back another step.

Adobe Illustrator makes it very easy to work with vectors. You can download many free vectors & then ungroup them & select the specific pieces that you want to build your own vector based design.

Adobe Illustrator makes it very easy to create & edit clipping masks. In the layers you can replace & select the photo specifically to readjust the selection of the photo that you want in the clipping mask.

I like that you can easily save and insert a color palette.

I find it frustrating that I have to switch to Photoshop in order to cut out a specific part of a photo. Why can't they just include that as a feature in Illustrator?

It's difficult to tell sometimes which layer is selected or which layer you have just pasted into. You can figure it out by looking at the layers tab, but when you first go to move something or paste something, it's a bit confusing.

Vector images. Easy to create.

Marketing material. We use templates that are created in Illustrator and mock them up to fit our own company needs.

We do not have a specified "Graphic Designer" on staff so Illustrator makes it possible for us to satisfy those needs in house.

Maybe offer classes that can be taken to learn the software.

The pen tool is difficult for me as I am not a graphic designer.