No Contest: Illustrator Is The Go-To Vector Art Software
May 21, 2018
No Contest: Illustrator Is The Go-To Vector Art Software
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Illustrator CC
We create very high-end vector logos mostly for solo lawyers and small law firms. We create these logos for both digital and print (RGB and CMYK). We have many users that use and are proficient with Adobe Illustrator. We have created a standard within our company as far as how the product is to be used on how design files are to be layered and structured. Adobe Illustrator give us the power to create infinitely scalable, lossless graphics with maximum flexibility. We love this software.
- Relatively easy to learn
- There is nothing that you cannot do
- The pen tool is an INCREDIBLE feature that helps even novices create very engaging artwork
- When using Illustrator in tandem with Photoshop, there are controls that differ. This is not a big deal but it would be nice if the interactions were more comparable.
- It would be nice if the layer systems worked more like Photoshop, as the Grouping of elements gets a bit annoying (quadriple-clicking to isolate something gets tedious).
- The default settings seem "wrong" to me... This may be subjective but why would you ever want Document Raster Effect Settings Resolution to be 72? Just make it 300 out of the gate...
- We make 5 times the monthly cost for the software per one job we complete... That ROI is fantastic.
- We use Illustrator to create many of our products that are customized per user. Once the initial design is created, the customization is a quick process.
- Many of our brand materials were created using Adobe Illustrator.
Adobe Illustrator, as far I know, is the most powerful and popular 2d vector design software. There was Corel Draw back in the day (I am not sure if they are still around) but the interface was archaic and it was overall less powerful than Illustrator. It being 2018, I selected Illustrator because of the usability, vast community and the fact that my job requires that I use Photoshop—why not just go all-Adobe?