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April 14, 2021

The go-to software for the graphic designer.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Illustrator CC

I use Adobe Illustrator CC for internal communication within the company, to prepare presentation to clients and to prepare social media pieces for publishing. I'm the only one using it in the company since there's not a lot of demand from other users.
The main issue it addressed was the lack of uniformity amongst company communication, that was all over the place and by centering everything in one user, communication became standardized and there was no different look-and-feel between publications in different media.
  • Uniformity and fluidity with other Adobe software
  • very easy to layout publications
  • easy to export and prepare for printing
  • Easy to manage multiple pages documents
  • Great assortment of brushes, templates, swatches available anywhere on the web
  • Stable software. Almost never had an issue with handling large files.
  • Placing images in it is still very rudimentary
  • Integration with 3D Models
  • Adobe reduced the custom scripts capabilities in the latest versions of Illustrator.
  • Ease of use
  • Compatibility with industry standards
  • Seamless integration between Adobe tools
  • Stability even when handling large files
  • Makes it easier to manage the company brand across social media
  • We can create appealing presentations to clients, generating more projects
Adobe Illustrator is way more stable than CorelDraw and it can handle large files without issues. I was always scared of crashing the program whenever I was working with a large file on CorelDRAW.
It also manages multiple pages in a better way, having them all in a single space, where you can have an overall view of the project and design multiple-pages spreads easier.
Illustrator vector handles are way easier to work with and that makes a HUGE difference in workflow and productivity.
Illustrator integrates way better with other tools that I use, specially within the Adobe platform.

Do you think Adobe Illustrator CC delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Adobe Illustrator CC's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe Illustrator CC live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Adobe Illustrator CC go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe Illustrator CC again?

Yes

This is the industry-standard tool. It's very powerful and has been in the works for 20+ years. Adobe is very good at tweaking and implementing it over the years and it has done a great job with it.
It works well for designing single page compositions but it handles well compositions with multiple pages, despite inDesign handling multiple page projects better.
To a point, for architectural humanized blueprints, CorelDraw had a more efficient workflow than Illustrator, but I don't know if I would ever go back to CorelDraw since it is way more unstable and less practical than Illustrator.