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What Is Adobe Illustrator?

Graphic design software used for logos, illustrations, graphics, and icons. It helps designers with creating designs, collaborating with team members, and sharing their designs in any format. Features of the platform include global edits, repeat for patterns, vector designs, recolor, customizable effects, and 3D design.

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Reviews of Adobe Illustrator

Average score

Overall
4.8
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.3
Features
4.7
Value for Money
4.3

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Ricardo
Ricardo
Chief Platforms Support in Panama
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Intuitive, precise and customizable tools, reliable color

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: I have been using Illustrator over 25 years. Honestly I always use perhaps 10% of its power. I find it to be a reliable design powerhouse.

Pros:

Standards! Adobe Illustrator has been around for decades, and this shows in the level of refinement of its tools. Another advantage of this ubiquity is that most professional design studios "speak" Adobe allowing for easy collaboration and reliability of outcomes. Each tools can be tweaked to each specific need or taste and the workspace can be also tailored to specific design scenarios. Typography is something very important to me. The granular control Adobe Illustrator provides to type functions has no competition. Color is accurate, and on this front, Adobe benefits not only from decades of experience and partnerships, but also from the tight integration between Illustrator and other Creative Cloud products, that also happen to be ubiquitous in the design industry.

Cons:

Only con... the subscription pricing model... but I guess this is where the whole industry is heading to.

Caroline
Head of Communication in Kenya
Government Administration, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Review of Adobe Illustrator

4.0 2 months ago

Comments: My overall experience with Adobe Illustrator has been great. However, I notice that my levels of creativity are average, which means I take longer than necessary to produce a great graphic design project.

Pros:

Adobe Illustrator is very powerful for producing vector graphics like logos that can be scaled without losing quality. Its tools are awesome, especially for a professional graphic designer.

Cons:

Learning Adobe Illustrator can be steep for non-graphic designers. Those new to graphic design can be quickly discouraged when starting out. You need a lot of creativity to use the tools and produce awesome graphics. Few people have very high creativity.

Chibuike
Chibuike
Head of IT and Support in Nigeria
Verified LinkedIn User
Professional Training & Coaching, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
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My Adobe Illustrator Review

3.0 2 years ago

Comments: Adobe Illustrator has given me a platform to express my creativity and progress it. I have designed mind-blowing logos, branded businesses, and designed presentations, and vector icons. it is the best vector design in the market.

Pros:

Each version of Adobe Illustrator keeps getting better than the previous. I have been using it for more than 1o year and it keeps getting better. I love the Image Tracing feature than can vectorize and raster images. It even has more features. You can also stay organise by creating and customizing layers and artboards.

Cons:

I hate it when it crashes when I'm working. I've been in a situation when I was designing a presentation. I saved the file properly and tried opening it afterward but it refuses to open. It said something that my file was corrupt. If the file is corrupt, why should it still be having a .ai extension

Austin
Investigator in US
Consumer Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Better Quality

5.0 4 months ago

Comments: Adobe illustrator is my favorite and I'll probably always use it as long as I can afford it. That being said, I can do most (not all) of the same things with cheaper software.

Pros:

What stands out the most is the ability to use a larger canvas size and complex custom brushes without lag time and other issues when painting. Everything is always very smooth and fluid. Adobe illustrator has more tools in general, and more powerful tools for things like selections, color adjustments, and transformations. I also liked the layer and layer property options. I designed a product for my company and the artwork and logo on it turned out great using Adobe illustrator. Overall quality of everything is just better, simple as that.

Cons:

Adobe illustrator is significantly more expensive than other digital art software. The workspace and entire software is going to feel very different if youre coming from another product. That could be a pro or con but either way I think there is a small con with the "re-learning" process.

James
creative desiner in Kenya
Design, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Adobe Illustrator The Swiss army Knife in my Graphic design Toolkit

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I greatly enjoy using Adobe illustrator and I have been using it for the past 15 years. I would also say that the program integrates seamlessly with other Adobe Products and this makes my work as a graphic designer quite easy.

Pros:

I like the fact that i can now be able t use AI directly inside adobe Illustrator.It also good that I can also be able to pick fonts directly from Images. I also enjoy the fact that I can now create 3D vectors easily

Cons:

I think that the only thing that i do not like about Illustrator is the lack of a multi page editor, where i can easily edit test on one page and it will update on other pages in the same documents Artboards