We currently have Illustrator Line and Illustrator Draw. What are some of the other products in the Illustrator family?
They were early adopters and really love Illustrator, creating calligraphy and other beautiful print work with it. Surface designers create patterns in Illustrator, which can then be put on carpets, tiles, or textiles. Look at the icons for apps on your mobile phone or tablet: they’re almost all done in Illustrator. It’s the standard tool for apparel design, including T-shirts, and almost all packaging design work is done in Illustrator-such as, say, the label for a wine bottle, or the packaging of your favorite orange juice. People designing watches use Illustrator, and people designing shoes use it too. Where is Illustrator used the most?Īctually, just about every industry uses Illustrator, from two-dimensional CAD designs in engineering fields to the greeting cards made by Hallmark. Unless you use vector graphics, images are not going to scale well or the files are going to be too big in size. To create graphics that can scale in size and still look sharp, without any pixilation, you need to use vector graphics, which use mathematical equations to preserve the shapes of images at any size or scale. If you look at the Adobe logo, for instance, it needs to look as nice and sharp on a business card as it does on a three-story billboard.
It’s the industry-standard software application for anyone, anywhere, who wants to work with vector graphics. Illustrator is used by artists and graphic designers who create logos, icons, charts, infographics, posters, ads, books, magazines, and brochures. The first version available to the general public was released on March 19, 1987. The first version of Illustrator, which was conceived of by Adobe cofounder John Warnock, appeared about 28 years ago, in late 1986. Anubhav, when was Adobe Illustrator first created?
The solution that’s right for you will, of course, depend on what you’re looking to achieve, so we’ve created this new series to help explain some of our key offerings.įor this installment, we reached out to Adobe Group Product Manager Anubhav Rohatgi to talk about Adobe Illustrator, the premium software application for artists and designers looking to create and modify scalable vector graphics. There’s Test and Target, Analytics, and Campaign, too. **When it comes to using the right Adobe software for your projects, there are so many options to choose from, spanning After Effects to EchoSign, Acrobat to Muse.