Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is Adobe's vector graphics software for logos, icons, packaging and illustration, on desktop and iPad on one subscription.

Adobe Illustrator is vector graphics software for designers who draw artwork that has to hold its quality at any size, from a business card to a building wrap. Adobe publishes it inside Creative Cloud, and one subscription covers the desktop application and Illustrator on iPad together. Illustrator draws with paths rather than pixels, which is the line between it and Adobe Photoshop: Photoshop edits photographs at the pixel level, while Illustrator produces shapes and type that stay editable and scale without losing their edges. Illustrator on iPad is an edition of the same subscription rather than a product of its own. Drawing starts with the Pen tool, which places anchor points and shapes the curve between them. Artwork is laid out across multiple artboards of any size in a single document, so a mark, its lockups and its crops sit in one file. Art and calligraphic brushes give a stroke its profile, and on the iPad the Blob Brush tapers with the pressure of an Apple Pencil. Concept to Vector turns a dropped sketch or a low-resolution image into editable outlines. Text to Vector Graphic generates vector art from a written prompt, and Generative Shape Fill fills a drawn shape with generated artwork, so a rough idea can become an editable path without being redrawn by hand. Illustrator suits people whose output is drawn rather than photographed: brand and logo designers, illustrators, icon and interface artists, packaging and print designers, and studios making marketing graphics for client brands. Students and teachers have a price of their own, and agencies and in-house teams buy per licence so seats can be assigned and reassigned. It is bought by subscription, either on its own or inside Creative Cloud Pro alongside more than 20 other Adobe applications. The application sits inside the wider Creative Cloud workflow. Creative Cloud Pro carries generative credits for Adobe Firefly alongside more than 20 other applications. Adobe Stock is sold beside it as a separate subscription for licensed assets. Turntable takes flat artwork and gives it 3D perspective and motion. The everyday jobs are drawing a logo and its variants, building an icon set, preparing artwork for a package or a poster, turning a hand sketch into clean outlines, and making illustration and pattern work that will be printed at one size and shown on screen at another.