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Adobe Illustrator
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Adobe Illustrator

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What is Adobe Illustrator?

The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.

Adobe Illustrator is a tool in the Design Tools category of a tech stack.

Adobe Illustrator Pros & Cons

Pros of Adobe Illustrator

  • ✓Vector Creation

Cons of Adobe Illustrator

  • ✗Adobe Updater to slow you down even more
  • ✗Massive disk space usage
  • ✗Expensive
  • ✗Clunky
  • ✗Not really a tool for web design

Adobe Illustrator Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Adobe Illustrator?

Figma

Figma

Figma is the first interface design tool with real-time collaboration. It keeps everyone on the same page. Focus on the work instead of fighting your tools.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

It is the best in the world of graphic design and image processing software that will realize any of your ideas. Create and enhance photos, illustrations and 3D graphic objects.

Sketch

Sketch

Easily create complex shapes with our state-of-the-art vector boolean operations and take advantage of our extensive layer styles.

Adobe XD

Adobe XD

A vector-based tool developed and published by Adobe Inc for designing and prototyping user experience for web and mobile apps.

Zeplin

Zeplin

Collaboration app for designers & developers. Supports Sketch and Photoshop (on beta!).

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign

The industry's leading page layout and design software enables you to create, proof and publish documents for print and digital media. Ir has everything to create posters, books, digital magazines, eBooks, interactive PDFs and more.

Adobe Illustrator Integrations

Adobe Photoshop, Haiku, Avocode, Adobe XD, Windows 10 and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Adobe Illustrator. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
Haiku
Haiku
Avocode
Avocode
Adobe XD
Adobe XD
Windows 10
Windows 10
Typora
Typora
Android OS
Android OS
Tandem HQ
Tandem HQ
Axure
Axure
Coolors
Coolors
Unicons
Unicons
Vectornator
Vectornator

Adobe Illustrator Discussions

Discover why developers choose Adobe Illustrator. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Ana Phi Sancho
Ana Phi Sancho

Jun 22, 2018

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Draw simple vector shapes . I Interact with Motion Design work. Adobe Illustrator

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David Somers
David Somers

Dec 28, 2017

Needs adviceonAdobe IllustratorAdobe Illustrator

I create generative art. Illustrator offers an API so I can automate that process. Yes, its big, its ugly, the never-ending updates reduce my machine to a crawl, and the subscription model is death by $49.99 every month. Adobe Illustrator

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Andrew Fielding
Andrew Fielding

CEO

Oct 6, 2017

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Illustrator is used for our logos and to build a variety of small parts of our website and apps. Adobe Illustrator

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Godwin Kimani
Godwin Kimani

Developer

Aug 24, 2017

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I use Illustrator to create or modify already created logos, monograms and other vector graphics I want to use in other designs. Adobe Illustrator

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