Adobe Illustrator Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

The precise control -- such as Snap To Point/Grid/Guide -- is (IMO) Illustrator's most compelling feature. Even when my drawing has multiple layers and includes transparent elements, I know that what I see is essentially what I will get when it is printed.

Items I dislike are mostly minimal and minor. Some tools are hidden behind others (though their locations can be learned when the software is used extensively), and some shortcuts are not intuitive. The "major" item I dislike is that, when my current version of the software becomes obsolete (corrupted and/or no longer supported by Adobe), I will be forced to purchase a Creative Cloud subscription, and I AM NOT looking forward to that, especially in terms of the expense.

For print jobs that don't include multiple pages, Adobe Illustrator has no equal. I've created items as small as a lapel pin to a banner that's 12 feet tall -- all in Illustrator.

I love how I have total creative freedom when designing e-products for my clients and followers.

It took me quite some time to learn my way around the program and It can do more than I realize.

I no longer need to outsource my work for my business. I can create all my own products in Illustrator!

Very easy to use, I use it to make cards with company logo.

Takes time to learn how to use the program.

Makes company note cards, can make many company printing projects.

Illustrator does everything it sets out to do and more.

Really, nothing. It's one of my favorite programs that I use daily.

I can make great, interesting graphics by hand or by using presets, so it fits so many different needs for a media company.

Everything. Seriously, this product (which was once extremely daunting and seemed impossible to learn) has been the answer to a lot of my design-related problems and then-some. Obviously, first and foremost it's top-notch for creating vector illustrations and elements. The pen tool will become your best friend, once you learn how to use it. Combine this with abilities to make masks, the use of transparency, and more -- possibilities are endless.

It took me at least two years to feel comfortable with Illustrator, and even now there are still things I had no idea existed that are making my life easier. There are so many options and yet some things are still so limited.

I create pretty much everything we use in Illustrator, and then take it into other programs such as Photoshop, XD, InDesign, etc. Email graphics, posters, illustrators, iconography, and more. Illustrator is great because it combines a lot of what InDesign and Photoshop have to offer, so if you can only afford one at least Illustrator has a lot of the same capabilities.

Illustrator gives nitpicky designers like me ultimate control over my artwork. I probably use it a bit too much but nothing is better for vector artwork, and integration with other Adobe programs makes designing a breeze.

I honestly can't think of anything. The more I use the program and learn about it, the more I love it.

I can easily design and edit countless graphic projects, I can communicate with other Adobe programs as needed, and I have total control over the design elements of my projects.

Freedom of using shapes and lines freely

Very complex at the beginning when learning to use

Logos & Graphics

.ai is definitely the best format and the most used and user friendly format for logos, drawings and images of all sorts. Ai is easy to use but also extremely complex. I have not fount myself wondering why they were not offering the option or action I was looking for.

It can be a little overwhelming to use at first and if you dont know where an action is, it may take you a while to find it, if at all.

Logo design, business card design and pictures for websites

Illustrator is a key tool in my every day workflow. I work for an agency that primarily focuses on branding, and illustrator is my go-to program for bring brands to life.

Theres not much that I can find fault in. Illustrator is one of the most solid programs that Adobe has.

Its a necessary tool for creating the work we can bill our clients for.

Literally everything. I love that Illustrator uses vectors, making clear designs no matter how far you zoom in. It’s also compatible with a Wacom tablet which I love.

Nothing!! I love everything about Illustrator.

I am a freelance artist, I have been for years, and switching from Photoshop to Illustrator has made a tremendous change in the quality of my designs.

Easy to create vector artwork that can scale up and down.

to place image in a frame is not the same as in Indesign which I consider to be much easier to use when linking image files

I use Illustrator the most to manipulate logo or text files to export for 3d modeling purpose.

artboards are super useful in being able to try various layouts and compare them

amount of memory it takes on my PC - the software is over 1GB

ability to blend graphics and text - very necessary for tradeshows

It is great that every action is easily fixable/reversable

Some features are not intuitive. Apart from that, I really love the program

vector graphics creation for web design

Adobe Illustrator Software Review and evaluation

Great product for creating and editing vector art!

Makes it possible to keep very clean and crisp images for designs and prints like screen printing and banners.

I absolutely love the ease of producing quality, creative projects with Illustrator. It's intuitive, easy to use, elegant and always improving itself. I find it easy to establish a fluency with the software and it can do so much across different media to really, truly bring your design and imaginations to life. Illustrator works incredibly well in combination with Photoshop, integrates seamlessly in InDesign and can finalize as a convenience PDF to share and store. For this reason, it is my go-to software, it bridges everything I seek to do within the computer-aided design realm.

It is so difficult to think of a dislike. I wish the Adobe suite were a little more affordable but you certainly get so much for your money! Besides that, I have been wildly impressed by the capabilities and functionality to holds and sincerely enjoy working with the software. Often times, Adobe asked for feedback on its software and over the years, again and again, I have seen feedback integrated into new versions of Illustrator, making it more efficient, more expansive and more sophisticated.

I work as an architect so Illustrator is critical for us as we create, visualize, and communicate our designs to clients, the public and our partners. We are constantly using Illustrator to play with, solve and articulate design and business problems. This software allows us to do so using high quality graphics and composition. I have used Illustrator throughout my ten year career, as well as both in undergrad and graduate school and find it to be a highly effective creative tool for my work.

Ease of use and how well it blends with InDesign and Photoshop. I use to develop a lot of magazine ads, invitations, and editing drawings. It just keeps getting easier to use.

If I had to nitpick, I would like more layout options for my workspace. Really a flawless piece of software though.

Helps resize ads created by others quickly. Can edit text and images in one place.

Easy to use. I hope they are developing more tools to make it even easier to accomplish projects!

Nothing to say here as I use the program 40 hours a week!

It’s all I need to develop artwork and graphics and prints.

I have been using Adobe Illustrator for approximately 10 years, and it has by far the most extensive set of tools for graphic design and it is years ahead of other design software. Adobe is continuously releasing updates and upgrades for the software, and they are very good about listening to their user-base on what tools and functionality should be implemented. I love the tools that it has for print media and web based graphic design, and it makes creating business cards, flyers, brochures, logos, social media graphics, and dynamic forms very simple. Shape tools, pen tools, perspective tools, and various effects tools make it a great graphic design software.

There are sometimes occasional glitches and times that the software freezes, but they are few and far between, and the glitches are usually addressed fairly quickly. Most of the issues I have with this software are usually related to lack of knowledge or system hardware limitations.

I use it for everything from print media and web graphics, to document creation and internal media. The software has allowed me to turn projects around very quickly without having to rely on outside design contractors. It also streamlines between other Adobe products, which makes it ideal when using it within the entire Adobe CS.

I love that Adobe Illustrator allows you to create your own designs. The tools are excellent and there is a wealth of resources online. I have used free online software programs before, but they do not come close to what Adobe Illustrator allows you to do. I definitely think it is worth the price (I pay the monthly subscription rate) and once you get into Illustrator, it is easy to start learning Photoshop and InDesign.

There is nothing that I really dislike, except for it is very daunting at first. But once you get into the program more and get used to it, it is really an incredible product.

Creating designs for clients who are currently using Microsoft Word or other forms of software that do not create high quality designs or vectors.

Illustrator builds on the working knowledge of physical art forms like printing and drawing, along with interface strategies and layouts similar to Macromedia Flash 5 (a huge throwback to old power users from back in its heyday of internet animation glory). Illustrator serves the purposes of graphic design, vector generation, layered hierarchies, and more graphic design needs.

Illustrator is not fully compatible with photoshop and indesign. It's great to be able to copy vector graphics with a simple cmd + c cmd + v style, although there is a loss of functionality, especially in indesign. It's unfortunate for users whose workflow include graphic production in photoshop or illustrator and layout in indesign.

I do logos, internet graphics, and business graphics. The multiplicity of artboards is largely effective for creating huge swathes of similar content in rapid succession.

ability to combine objects, add various shading effects and graphic styles

some options are hidden, I'm using various adobe software and while using one of the programs for a whole day I need to switch to a different one it's sometimes hard to find an option that was in a more visible space eg. effects in indesing are under right click menu while in illustrator you can't find them there

creating various icons, logos, product and presentations illustrations

Illustrator is the best when it comes to designing flyers, logos, and web graphics. It comes very handy when you want to edit SVG image file formats.

I dislike that we are not able to crop images easily. I think this is one of the features that is missing in Illustrator.

Some business problems I am solving with Illustrator is creating graphics to be used for the web. Editing SVG files and creating icons that are vectorized and scalable.

I like how easily Illustrator integrates with the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite. I also like a lot of the features it has for layout work (grids, etc.) I've used it for all kinds of projects, from flyers to page layout, and things always turn out perfectly.

If you're not an experienced user, Illustrator can be tough to figure out. There are a lot of features, some of which are buried deep in the menus.

When I was at Anytime Fitness, we used this product ALL the time. It provided us with great marketing benefits because we were able to produce almost every piece of collateral in-house, which allowed us to control exactly what things looked like before they were released to the public.

So many of the tools are very helpful...having this combination within the software makes designing enjoyable.

I think the layers panel should have the ability to group layers into folders (similar to photoshop). I also think there could be more consistency with similar tools across the different products.

Book cover design, icon design, thumbnail design, vector based illustration.

I like a lot of things about Illustrator, but I think my favorite feature is the ability to create beautiful images from scratch. I create vectors for a living, and Illustrator makes it easy to bring my designs from my mind’s eye onto the computer screen!

I think the only downside to Illustrator is that it isn’t a one-stop shop. Creating vector designs for my clients is easy, but manipulating photos or graphics is not as user-friendly in this program as it is in Photoshop.

I’m solving the problem of creating quality vectors in the traditional file formats without needing another program to convert them.

This is the best software you can get for creating and editing vectors

I do not dislike anything about the software

Creating digital advertising

Once you learn the tools and tricks of illustrator it is so much fun and so easy to use

It takes a little bit of time to learn how to navigate

It helps me in my freelance design career!

The thing I like most about this program is the ability to create graphics with ease, of course, as soon as you start using it you immediately have an intuitive ease that not all programs have .

The thing that I do not like is that sometimes when you stop has difficulty unlocking and you have to close the program and restart it takes a little too long.

the only problem is when it hangs for the rest is a fantastic program that I would recommend to everyone. With this program learning it I had many satisfactions and immediately it was very easy to use. Of course, like any program, you have to study it well to learn all or almost all of the functions.

I like the functionality and how powerful it is.

I wish the help section was more detailed.

I used it to design the signs for our stores. It is a great tool for retail signage.

I use Adobe Illustrator for 80% of my design work. I love how easy the icons are to distinguish and that I can completely customize the layout of the tools. I love how easy it is to integrate images and files from the rest of the Adobe software products like Photoshop and InDesign.

I do not like that some of my settings as far as tools go, do not hold for the next time I open the program. I'm sure that is an easy fix but I have not been able to figure that out yet. This is minor and I basically love Illustrator!

I own my own graphic design firm and use Adobe Illustrator for a majority of my design work. I couldn't do my job without it. It is very important that I can use the program with ease and meet my deadlines with my clients. And thanks to the great performance of the program, I am able to do this easily!