Overview Adobe Illustrator CC

And now, experience the freedom and flexibility of Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 edition across desktop and iPad.

What is Adobe Illustrator?

Adobe Illustrator is a professional-grade vector graphics editor used for creating illustrations, logos, icons, and other digital artwork. It differs from raster-based software like Photoshop by using mathematical equations to define lines and curves, allowing for scalable graphics that maintain sharpness at any size.

Key Features and Uses:

Vector Graphics: Illustrator excels at creating vector graphics, which are composed of paths defined by mathematical equations, rather than pixels. This makes them infinitely scalable without losing quality.

• Versatile Design: It's used for a wide range of design projects, including logos, icons, typography, illustrations, infographics, and more.
• Professional Precision: Illustrator provides advanced tools for precise control over shapes, colors, and effects, allowing for professional-level customization.
• Industry Standard: It's widely used in various industries, including graphic design, web design, and advertising.
• Integration: Illustrator integrates with other Adobe Creative Cloud applications like Photoshop and InDesign, facilitating a seamless design workflow.
• Examples of Use: Designers use Illustrator to create logos, icons, website mockups, packaging designs, and even complex illustrations.

What is Adobe Illustrator used for?

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading graphic design tool that lets you design anything you can imagine – from logos and icons to graphics and illustrations – and customize it with professional-level precision, as well as time-saving features like Repeat for Patterns or Global Edits.

Drawings. Logos. Type. All perfectly scalable.

Turn shapes and colors into logos and icons. Create typography, draw freehand, and trace and recolor graphics. Illustrator is vector-based, so your artwork stays crisp even when you scale it up to stadium size.

Create on your desktop. Or a mountaintop.

Work on desktop or iPad, even offline — your files are synced to the cloud, so you can always pick up where you left off.

Go further, faster with Adobe Sensei.

Create smarter with features powered by Adobe Sensei AI. Automatically extract colors from a photo and add them to your design, auto-trace a hand-drawn sketch and turn it into a vector graphic, and more.

More power and possibilities with Creative Cloud.

Work seamlessly with other Creative Cloud apps. Store and manage your documents, graphics, styles, and text in the cloud for easy access. Access thousands of fonts from Adobe Fonts plus Adobe Stock templates. And create a beautiful portfolio site with Adobe Portfolio.

See what new can do.

Illustrator is always adding new features so you can create with precision and control. And with your Creative Cloud membership, you get them as soon as we release them.

More powerful documents in the cloud

Keep track of all your versions with cloud documents that save automatically, so you can access them anywhere — even offline.

Intelligent features to speed your process

Now Illustrator can auto-extract colors from an image or color palette and apply them to your design.

Type enhancements

You can align text vertically to the top, middle, or bottom of a frame. Also, you can set the font size based on letterform characteristics like the x-height.

Smart glyph snapping

Now it’s easier to position text and other objects precisely. Snap to key points like the baseline and the x-height.