Scalable Graphics and Cross-Platform Use
October 24, 2017
Scalable Graphics and Cross-Platform Use
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Illustrator CC
We use Adobe Illustrator to design everything from signage to web ads, email marketing, and various other graphics. It is mostly used by the 3 graphic designers employed by the company, but some others also use it on occasion. It helps us create scalable graphics that are suitable for print or web, which is really helpful for us as we often use the same design scheme on all platforms. It makes it so we don't have to waste time and energy redesigning things for different uses.
- Scalable (vector) graphics enable us to use the same design for print and web without worrying about quality loss.
- Great for logo design, as logos are used in every format and need to be flexible with how they can be displayed.
- Adobe Illustrator is my go-to program for creating signage, especially large format signage.
- It is pretty easy to use, especially with keyboard shortcuts.
- I really enjoy using Abobe Illustrator with the Adobe Creative Cloud functionality. It allows my team to easily send documents to each other so multiple people can edit and look at the document for the best final product.
- Some keyboard shortcuts are different keys in different Adobe programs for the same function. It would be great if it prompted the same thing in Illustrator as in InDesign and Photoshop.
- The align and distribute functions sometimes work a little wonky and not as they're supposed to, but you can usually correct it by eye.
- I wish that Creative Cloud allowed multiple people to work on the same document at the same time, a la Google Docs. It would be helpful for team projects or cases where there are multiple art boards.
- My team frequently works in InDesign as well. They are similar programs, but things (especially text) frequently don't copy correctly from one program to another. It would be great if there was cross-program functionality and things maintained their bounding boxes and styles.
- I would love the use of Paragraph and/or Character Styles in Illustrator.
- Illustrator has saved us countless hours because we don't have to redesign things when they need to be displayed at different sizes. Hours saved means money saved!
- We are able to quickly and easily put designs together and share work which also saves us time and money.
- The only negative is trying to pull items from other Adobe programs sometimes means we have to reformat in Illustrator, which can take time... but since we are saving time to begin with, it still ends up being efficient.
- Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator CC is one of my top two favorite programs, the other is InDesign, but it is generally my go-to for creating design work. I use all of these programs for different things and in collaboration with each other, so it can be difficult to compare them. Photoshop I really only use to edit photos and deal with raster documents. I prefer to design in vector format so that everything is scalable. I frequently design components in Illustrator and then pull them into InDesign for layout/placement purposes. Fireworks I don't really use anymore and it is becoming sort of obsolete.