Adobe Illustrator CC - The Best of the Best
November 30, 2017
Adobe Illustrator CC - The Best of the Best
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Illustrator CC
Adobe Illustrator is one of the most important tools our students use and that our print team uses. It is being used across the entire school and is installed on over 200 computers throughout the school. The main purpose of having access to the program is that it makes teaching students graphic design software much easier. We established a program specifically to teach students graphic design and business development. Using Adobe Illustrator they can create their entire marketing scheme and company branding. The problem it addresses is the relevance of industry knowledge we give to students. This software prepares them for industry careers.
- Adobe Illustrator CC allows for colors to be accessed across the Adobe Suite if you are logged into your account. This makes it much easier for all designers and students to access their files and their color schemes easily. This creates a great workflow and saves time.
- Adobe Illustrator CC has an amazing user interface. The interface is easily reset and customizable. Being able to navigate the program faster with your own custom layout for the toolbars really makes designing more fun and efficient.
- Something that is done very well is the live trace tool. The live trace tool is a great asset to turn images or screenshots into vector designs. When you need to trace something, this is the fastest way to do it. The options it gives you to do so really allows you to create the best vector design without much work.
- Adobe Illustrator doesn't come with enough default fonts. Having more fonts would really improve the experience instead of needing to download free fonts on my own and install them for more unique designs.
- Adobe Illustrator has a perspective tool which is accessible in the toolbar and when it is clicked and turned on it is extremely annoying. To close this once it pops up is very difficult to click the very small "x" in the corner. This does not happen often but if you're a new user and this happens you can spend hours trying to find out how to remove it.
- One function that I would like to see is avoiding isolation mode. When you double click into groups of objects or items, it will turn your screen into isolation mode and if you don't realize it, you could be designing and adding things to a group that you wanted to be separate.
- An overall objective is to improve student attendance. By using Adobe Illustrator CC and showing students that they can start their own businesses simply by knowing marketing and design tools creates a buzz within the school and classroom to increase buy in.
- One of the best returns on this investment has been classroom management. Using Adobe Illustrator CC allows for better project -based learning. Project-based learning is a great concept in school but is often difficult unless you are in a computer lab, and software like this allows for multiple day assignments to be worked on by students.
- All of New York and many states are shifting towards CTE, Career in Technical Education, where students are provided classes that they can take to prepare for college and their careers. Adobe Illustrator is a key program that is often taught and used in CTE courses because there is a smaller learning curve because teachers and students can use it easier based on the easy to use interface.
Adobe Illustrator CC only has one major competitor in the industry and it is a free software tool. The difference is that Adobe Illustrator provides a wider range of tools and functions. Being able to take Adobe Illustrator objects or designs and move them into Adobe InDesign or Adobe Photoshop really improves the use and efficiency of the software. Adobe Illustrator has a toolbar with many more options. Print is one of the hardest things to manipulate in the design field and Adobe Illustrator has effectively made it easy by allowing the text tool to be able to click and type, or drag to create a text box and type within that. Compared to other vector design tools, this is the best and easiest to learn and use.