Adobe Illustrator Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

Usual for projects like logos and vector images

It's not very user friendly. I always have trouble with the layers and selection tools

I am able to export vector images to be blown up for tshirts, banners, signs, etc

Adobe Illustrator uses Vector graphics which do not become pixelated when you scale their size. They're apparently based on a mathematical function rather than just a fixed image. What this means is you can use your same graphics file on a business card or a billboard without any degradation in quality.

First off, I'll say that I'm a tinkerer and enjoy messing around with programs and figuring out their different features on my own. Having said that, this product, liOr just about every other non-mobile based Adobe product is NOT intuitive. I ended up using YouTube and Lynda.com to figure it out. But one I had a handle on the basics it was somewhat easier to figure things out.

I used Adobe Illustrator to design a logo for my real estate appraisal business. I experimented with several different ideas and ultimately ended up using a quite simple logo for which Illustrator was overkill. But I'm overall pleased with my logo so I'm happy with Adobe. Also note that I marked below that I'm not a current user of the product, but if I needed any graphics in the future I wouldn't hesitate to use Illustrator again.

I enjoy how easy it is to create vectors.

One of the things I don't like is how there isn't a tutorial to show beginning users how to use the program and its most used features.

I am solving recreating professional logos and graphics with this program.

Use it very little and when do its easiest features is clustering items together so they stay together.

Easy to ungrounded and lose connection with certain elements of graphic.

Internal documents and certificates

I love that Illustrator works in vectors which makes it the perfect tool for logos and any sort of design elements. If I want to create an infographic for a flyer, this tool allows me to create a beautiful design while giving me the freedom to make it smaller or larger and still look great, depending on the platform that I will ultimately choose.

I dislike the fact that there are too many tools and I simply don't have the resources to learn them all. I know that there are tons of shortcuts but I haven't found a good tutorial or help source to teach me.

If you need to create an image for a small business card (smaller size) or a website (larger size), Illustrator gives you the opportunity to create a beautiful logo once and adjust it to the exact specs you need.

Versatility of design - our graphic designer is able to create text and graphic flyers, including flyers with her own line drawings or tracings. We create 11x17 flyers, foldable brochures, postcards, for printing, as well as web design images for Twitter, Facebook, and email.

Hard to learn, buggy loading and saving. Crashes without warning and often forces a full computer restart. Also it's very difficult to learn at first. Shrinking and enlarging images needs to be easier without losing image quality.

Creating advertising flyers for our center. Once learned, the program lets us quickly and easily create innovative and eye-catching designs.

We use this for special projects in the office that require some additional finesse

could use a bit more ease to maneuver from one page to another without getting lost

finding additional customer resources

I love that Illustrator has the tools necessary to draw and create items from scratch, even though I'm not fully aware of how to use these tools. I use it most often to change the appearance and/orshape of vector images and I love that it makes that so easy to do. If I had more time, I would love to explore the other features that Adobe Illustrator has to offer!

I dislike how complicated it is. I'm sure it's super helpful for what others need it for, but as I only need it for altering already created vector images, it just seems overly complex. If I had more time, I would love to explore the other features that Adobe Illustrator has to offer!

I use it mostly for altering vector images that I need for certain work projects. It makes that process really simple. It I had more time, I would love to explore the other features that Adobe Illustrator has to offer!

The scale-ability of vector graphics (and digital art in general) is unparalleled. A must-have for graphic artists, logo designers and post-production video editors (like me) who want to be employed in the future. As touchscreen device sizes vary, vector graphics on interactive website designs can adapt and stay sharp. Specifically, Illustrator is my go-to program for: Motion graphic intros and lower thirds and Clean typography and font control (when converted to shape layers) Highly recommend 6/10!

Although Adobe Illustrator interchanges with Photoshop seamlessly, with similar tools, palettes and keyboard shortcuts, it's not intuitive creation program for beginners. A class or individual one-on-one mentorship is the best way to learn. The whole layer system is difficult to understand.

Retracing & converting .jpg floorplans to vector graphics and recreating apartment property logos to upload to the web.

What I like is the infinity of possibilities. You can do everything you want on illustrator. A cool mix between photoshop and indeisgn

What I dislike is the too much complicated functionment of the software. Functionnalities are too much hidden, and most of the time, people only use maybe 2% of capacities of this soft.

I succeed to create a shoe and a chair with very realistic effects particulary for leather relfexions, it's very efficient.

Very easy to use once you know what you are doing. Can get basic things/designs done quickly. Nice that everything you use the most is on the left hand side.

However, there are so many options that its hard to know what you can do and where a certain option is housed (under what tab). So finding things is a big problem. Then there is no explanation of what things are- it would be great if there could be a hover over the dropdowns with an explanation of what it will do (example, re align the images, add lines to a layer). Sometimes i will click something accidentally and it will change the file/graphic and i dont know how to get it back. I dont use a lot of the complicated things in illustrator so they should have training or a short thing to watch with just how to use the basic stuff.

I am using Illustrator to create and edit graphics. We have a graphics team at my company but sometimes they dont have time, are too backed up, or it would be too complicated to explain to them what i want so i will have to do things myself. Its solving the business problem of not getting things that i need on time and correctly- allows for self service

ability to open and edit PDFs as well as ease of use in logo creation.

Not as easy to use as indesign. not as many user friendly controls. Feels like you need to use often to really keep the shortcuts and toolbars in mind.

Using Adobe products in sync with other team members has been a tremendous help in collaboration. Mostly logo creation for our many products.

When used properly, it makes very clean and crisp work. Excellent for editing SVGs. There is a lot of room for automated tasks in Adobe's system and we primarily use the program just as a conversion tool from CAD drawings into Web based SVGs, while also using the tools within Illustrator to make the drawings more visually appealing.

Definitely has a steep learning curve. It is not easy to jump in and start using it like Photoshop. It does not work in the same way as most other Adobe software and it does not always do what you expect it to be able.

We use it to convert CAD drawings into visually appealing web viewable vector images for our company's internal web management system as well as for sales purposes on our website. It is the best way to take the detailed product drawings we have available from our AutoCAD team and add them into marketing aspects of the business without losing out on the incredible detail in the drawings. This is great because Illustrator comes with the tools to visually enhance the drawings with colours and strokes in a way that AutoCAD is not able, making it great for making graphics that we can use to sell products to our customers. The high detail makes these graphics exceptional because they give a very accurate technical representation of the product while also showing it off in such a way that it is much more understandable to a layman.

the big adventage of Illustrator its the vectorialisation, to print steackers, posters, etc , you can put a logo and illustrator can automaticaly reconstructed the logo in vector so permet to go faster, the tool to repeat a form in circle its perfect to draw Rims or Watches because you can chose the angle to the repetition (the problem of photoshop) perfect to do blue prints

For me the principal problem to illustrator its that is a "rigid" software , you are contrain by the software its not naturals lines contrary to hand sketch or photoshop but its good to do blu prints. Illustrator have the same problem than Photosop for the interface , its too much complicate to learn tools when you are a beginner, the software its very complet but too much tools any peoples use all tools .

the problem for me it tha is rigid to use illustrator so you are little bit limited , so ine car design (my job) i do my illustration with photoshop , so i use illustrator to do steakers , or symple logos , to do blue prints or to draw rims with the rotate tool , its principales adventages for me !

Easy to use. I definitely would use this again once I know advanced features.

The overall feel of the pen tool is difficult at first. Had a lot of trouble at first. Didn't feel intuitive to me.

Graphic design and marketing was enhanced because of this.

I could print my posters in a better way, I was using Fireworks and I couldn't print the way I wanted...

That it is on the cloud now, and it is not clear for me how to buy them separately.

Posters

The software is robust and effective for vector-based design. Because it is vector-based, you won't lose quality when you enlarge photos (this is compared to Photoshop's raster-based editor). It also has many other useful features, including the ability to wrap text and the pathfinder tool.

The disadvantage of a vector-based editor is that it lacks some of the features that makes Photoshop great (i.e., clone stamp). Another problem that is characteristic of all Adobe products is the recent switch to Creative Cloud. Under this new pricing model, users have to pay a monthly fee. For long-term users, this is much more expensive than paying a one-time fee.

We generally use Illustrator or InDesign for design projects, depending on what we need to accomplish. InDesign is usually better for posters and flyers, whereas Illustrator is good for pamphlets due to its greater control over fonts. I also use Illustrator to create themes for PowerPoint presentations.

Can be resized without losing quality. Best for creating logos.

Takes up a lot of space and is very time consuming.

Helps in creating colourful designs and professional logos for companies

I've only had to use Adobe Illustrator at my previous job. I've never used it before or after (so far) that job. I also only used it to check CAD drawings and make changes to the manufacturing notes, labels, dates, or names. With all that said, if I actually used it for creating digital art/drawings (and had a drawing tablet for my work PC) I think I would have enjoyed it.

It wasn't straightforward for me to use, and I never got used to it. Also, Adobe products/software is so expensive that I even though I think I would enjoy using it for digital art/drawings I wouldn't and I use another program.

Adobe Illustrator is a beast that I don't understand. Now, I would like to comment on the available answers to this survey's previos question; there's only one answer available and it doesn't apply to how I used it for work.

As a long time Adobe user for 20+ years, I can not deny this one is a go-to for graphics-related designers in a professional environment. But for personal use, you may be able to live with the alternatives these days.

If your usage is limited, it is hard to justify its subscription fee as the package bundles so many apps within. I prefer Figma over Adobe XD in terms of UX design.

Designing print/digital graphics for publication and AD where you need to collaborate with external agencies/companies.

Illustrator has all the tools for an artist to create and experiment with including many import file types.

Cumbersome, expensive, not easy to learn, but the biggest problem is computer resource use which slows down my computer (personal) even tho I have a very good computer. Updates are a bear...too much updating, no warning.

Illustrator became necessary when IGrafx was no longer available. I found it to have similar tools, but they were much harder to use, so the benefit of time was not there. Found a much less expensive suite (Affinity) that does not require subscriptions and is simpler to use. I must admit I do not think I would have looked for Affinity if I still had corporate resources to help with affordability.

Elements like logo design are easy to access, especially compared to programs like Photoshop, which can be more beneficial for digital art and editing. After some review and learning, the tools are relatively straightforward.

There is a huge learning curve when it comes to using the program. If no one trained you to use it in school or the workplace, figuring it out yourself is no easy task. Tools that seem like they may be simple to use are very frustrating without the proper knowledge. It can be frustrating to attempt design creation even if one has prior knowledge of other design programs. Even someone adept at another Adobe design software like Photoshop might find it challenging to manage Illustrator.

Logo and graphic design are much more manageable with Adobe Illustrator compared to other programs. After some practice and a good amount of time learning, I was able to create logos and do corporate graphic design much more quickly than with other programs.

Illustrator is good for vector files. Creating a website link on PDF or making large drawings readable on zooming in the PDF- Illustrator is highly recommend

Ease of photoshop is not in illustrator. Features of both app should be in one. Import export is tedious task and frustrating sometimes.

Illustrator has almost all features of photoshop. Image editing features should be in there only.

I love Adobe Illustrator for easy ways to do simple graphic designs - to super detailed designs. This software allows you to achieve many graphic design productions. I think it's great to use this software with Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.

I dislike how it's kind of a harder program to learn. I'm sure if you are a well experienced graphic designer, it would be very easy. For the basic graphic designer, it's kind of hard to learn.

The problems I am solving with Adobe Illustrator are graphic design creations. I don't know what other program one would use for graphic design creations - this program is great! I have realized many benefits from this program including great graphic design outcomes from producing awesome logos.

All tools in Illustrator are perfect for drawing and creating graphics. I use it to solve nearly all of my graphic design problems outside of print graphics. Tools like the pen tool give me freedom to create exactly what I want and all the effects make it easy to use as a one stop program.

Nothing bad comes to mind when I think about Illustrator, to me it is the best program in the Adobe Suite. I like that it it cohesive with the other creative programs and has similar toolbars and environments so learning the program was fairly easy. The only thing I can think of that is negative is that the "recently opened" list is kind of short. I open tons of files everyday and hunting them down later is a pain.

I am graphic designer, nearly every design problem I have can be solved with illustrator. From sketches stage to creating a crisp final product. I use it professionally and personally. Professionally I use to create logos, ads, graphics for print materials, and other items in a wide variety of formats both print and digital.

It is very powerful, and can work with hundreds of formats

We had a tough time getting adjusted to it. Not much training material was available from Adobe. It was also a bit non intuitive.

Our graphic design team is still learning, but it's helped them to adjust to our new branding more easily than when we exclusively used Adobe Photoshop.

I like that a lot of online files I use come in Illustrator format, allowing me to get access to them. What I do once I open the files is edit out what I do not want and then transfer the file over to photoshop, either as a whole, or layer by layer as I find it easier to work in photoshop.

I found Adobe Illustrator difficult to use at first. I had become so used to Adobe Photoshop that then using this program seemed so difficult. They have different functions and it was hard to figure out how to create things and set things up in this program. It would have been nice if a lot of the functions were the same as Photoshop. The more I work with this program the easier it becomes to navigate, yet, I still try to do most of my work in other Adobe programs.

Sometimes its best not to reinvent the wheel. There is so much out there when it comes to graphics and promo that when needing something quick I often turn to sites that provide Illustrator files. Though I do not work usually in Illustrator, I do like the benefit of getting these files.

I really like all the tools that illustrator offers.

It is always freezing up. I thought it was my computer, so I got a new i7 Macbook Pro and it still freezes

creating clipart and graphics

The ability to create from from the ground up, and continuously make effortless changes when needed.

The tools can sometimes look similar to each other and so when it updates I feel I need to relearn it a little.

It was my job to create a logo and social media avi, it has benefits of freedom, but also great templates to get started or feel inspired.

Ease of use when it works, constantly upgrading and changing!

Contract rules are reduculous and buggy updates

Logo design execution .