Adobe Illustrator is a complex software program that helps users, mostly professionals, to create illustrations, icons, typographies, digital graphics, web, video, and mobile content.
When it comes to what it can achieve, Adobe Illustrator offers a wide variety of features. From creating own brushes, high-resolution graphics, and 3D effects, to integrating an image-track engine or enjoying an intuitive GUI.
Moreover, the Illustrator artwork is vector-based and therefore, it can scale down for mobile screens and up to billboard size.
Also, you can create beautiful typographies by incorporating a company name into a logo, mock up a website design or create a flyer.
Another important feature consists in the possibility of creating freehand drawings or tracing and recoloring imported photos in order to transform them into real works of art.
All in all, Adobe Illustrator offers an extremely rich palette of opportunities, which can be realized by users with good accuracy and precision in digital graphics, while novices may find the program a bit too complex and quite pricey. Also, the program consumes a lot of system resources, therefore a high-end system is required.
Pros
- Has a well-designed and modern interface
- Offers an intuitive GUI
- Provides high-resolution graphics and 3D effects
- Offers the possibility of creating freehand drawings
Cons
- Requires a high-end laptop or computer
- Has only four themes to choose from
- Quite pricey