Adobe Illustrator
A Windows or MacOS computer may be used to create artwork using the software program Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator was first made available in 1987; it is still regularly updated, and it is currently a component of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Visual artists, professional illustrators, web designers, and graphic designers all around the world utilize Illustrator to produce high-caliber artwork. There are several intricate drawing tools in Illustrator that help speed up the graphic creation process.
How to Use Adobe Illustrator
Cartoons, charts, diagrams, graphs, logos, and drawings are just a few examples of the types of digital and printed visuals that may be made with Adobe Illustrator. A user may load a photo into Illustrator and use it as a reference to trace an item in the photo. This may be used to recolor a photo or give it a sketchy appearance. Illustrator also allows for extensive word manipulation, which makes it a valuable tool for producing postcards, posters, and other visual designs that combine text and images. For designers making logos, Illustrator’s ability to wrap text around a curve comes in very handy. Mock-ups, which depict how a website will look when it is finished, and the creation of icons for usage in applications and websites both employ Illustrator.
Utilizing Illustrator with Creative Cloud
Illustrator may be licensed alone or as part of an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Since Illustrator is a component of the Creative Cloud, it may be used to share artwork with other Adobe Creative Cloud programs including After Effects, InDesign, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. For instance, users frequently produce their original artwork in Illustrator before importing it into Photoshop or After Effects. An picture created with Illustrator may also be exported to InDesign and then used in a book or magazine. To animate an Illustrator artwork, users can also export it to After Effects. A final design may be put together by combining text, illustrations, and the imported picture once artwork has been imported from Photoshop into Illustrator.
Adobe Illustrator’s vector graphics
The fact that the quality of artwork produced using Adobe Illustrator is independent of the resolution at which it is presented is one of its most significant qualities. This implies that an Illustrator-created picture may be scaled up or down without losing quality. This is a characteristic of vector graphics, which use mathematical connections to describe lines, arcs, and other illustration elements. In contrast, images that have been modified with software like Adobe Photoshop are resolution-dependent, and the quality of the images degrades as they are expanded. A vector graphic is an assortment of polygons that together form the image and are made up of vectors. A node or control point, which has a specific position on the x and y axes of a plane, is where each vector passes through. The route of the vector is determined by this node, which also controls its color, curve, fill, form, and thickness. Mathematical equations that correctly recalculate their positions as a picture is scaled can be used to connect the positions of vectors to one another.
When opposed to imaging programs like Photoshop, which employ pixel grids to produce pictures, vector graphics have a distinct feature. The bit map’s individual pixels may be seen when this sort of picture is scaled up sufficiently. Because of the phenomena known as pixilation, which causes an image’s quality to decline, Illustrator is particularly useful for producing huge pictures like billboard signs.
Illustrator CC is what?
The version of Illustrator that is accessible via Adobe’s cloud-based subscription service, Creative Cloud, is known as Illustrator CC. Illustrator v17, the precursor of Illustrator CC, was made available in 2013. Since that time, every iteration of Illustrator CC has often been referred to as Illustrator CC xxxx, where “xxxx” denotes the year of release. Illustrator CC 2023 is the most recent version.
The ability to sync and save work to the cloud is one of Illustrator CC’s most obvious features. Additionally, Illustrator CC can interface with Behance, a platform used by artists to display their portfolios and work. Additionally, adjustments were made to Illustrator’s handling of typefaces and its ability to sync and preserve color preferences in Illustrator CC. The ability to create and store bespoke brushes as well as use touchscreen-compatible tools has been added to Illustrator CC in more recent versions.
File Extensions Illustrator Supports
Since Illustrator can produce and edit vector pictures, it is necessary to save files in vector graphics formats. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Portable Document Format (PDF), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Windows Metafile (WMF), and Vector Markup Language (VML) are a few of these formats, and they are described in more depth below:
- Illustrator is able to export files in the PDF format. It enables text and graphics to appear regardless of the operating system, program, or hardware. Fonts, images, and text are all included in a comprehensive description of flat documents having a set layout. These components are combined and compressed into a single file using the organized storage system that is part of the PDF format. Additionally, it has a mechanism for linking fonts to documents and a subset of PostScript to create the visuals.
- The PostScript subset known as EPS has additional limitations that make it possible to store graphic files. These files can be enclosed within another PostScript file and are often self-contained. A low-resolution preview of the image is contained in an EPS file, which certain applications may show as a PostScript program. In earlier times of its existence, it was typical to save Illustrator files into an EPS format before sharing them with tools for page layout.
- In the 1990s, Windows started using the WMF file format, which Illustrator could export to. This format may be utilized similarly to the SVG format because it can hold both bitmaps and vector drawings. The Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) employs a set of function calls from WMF files to show a picture. Since some GDI methods handle errors, a WMF can contain executable code.
- VML This was an Office Open XML standard that used an XML-based format for two-dimensional vector graphics. Since 2012, Internet Explorer has stopped supporting it, however it is still present in Office Open XML for historical reasons and was once supported by Illustrator.
- SVG Since 1999, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has maintained the SVG specification as an open standard. The Extended Markup Language (XML) on which this format is based allows two-dimensional graphics for both animations and interactive pictures. SVG pictures may be compressed, indexed, programmed, and searched since they are described in XML files. Any text editor and several other graphics programs can edit SVG files. In Illustrator and other programs they provide, Adobe supports this file format as a W3C member.
File Formats Various Illustrator has Save and Export options.
- These file types are also exportable by Illustrator:
- AutoCAD Drawing (dwg)
- AutoCAD Interchange (dxf)
- BMP (bmp)
- Enhanced Metafile (emf)
- Flash (swf)
- JPEG (jpg, jpe, jpeg)
- GIF
- Macintosh PICT (pct)
- Photoshop (psd)
- PNG (png)
- Targa (tga)
- Text Format (txt)
- TIFF (tif)
File Extensions Illustrator Supports
These file types can be imported by Illustrator and added to layouts or artwork:
- Adobe (fxg)
- Adobe Illustrator (ai, ait)
- AutoCAD Interchange File (dxf)
- AutoCAD Drawing (dwg)
- BMP (bmp, rle, dib)
- Computer Graphics Metafile (cgm)
- CorelDraw (cdr)
- Enhanced Metafile (emf)
- Freehand (fh7, fh8, fh9, fh10, fh11, ft11)
- GIF
- JPEG (jpg, jpe, jpeg)
- Macintosh PICT (pic, pct)
- Microsoft RTF (rtf)
- Microsoft Word (doc, docx)
- PCX (pcx)
- Photoshop (psd, pdd)
- Pixar (pxr)
- PNG (png)
- Targa (tga, vda, icb, vst)
- Text (txt)
- TIFF (tif, tiff)
Adobe Illustrator History
Version 1 of Illustrator was initially released in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh. At the time, Adobe was focused on developing fonts and providing a language that computers could use to communicate with office printers, known as PostScript. Illustrator also supported Adobe’s font development efforts and also served as a companion product for Photoshop, which Adobe did not initially develop but they distributed and purchased. The original version of Illustrator didn’t have a preview mode, and users needed to open a second window to preview their work.
Illustrator Version 2 was released in 1989 and was the first version of Illustrator to support the Windows operating system. Adobe also released versions of Illustrator for various other operating systems during the early 1990s, including NeXT, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Solaris. However, all of these versions were discontinued due to poor sales as these operating systems failed to gain widespread acceptance. Version 4 was the next version of Illustrator to support Windows, which was also the first version to support editing while in preview mode. However, this capability was available for Macintosh until version 5, which was released in 1993.
Illustrator Version 6 was the last version to be Macintosh-focused because the interface in subsequent versions changed dramatically to provide greater compatibility with Windows. Adobe also added path editing in 1997 with version 7, primarily to make the interface more similar to the one used by Photoshop. This process would continue until the two interfaces for working with paths were virtually identical. Another significant change in version 7 of Illustrator was the addition of support for TrueType fonts, effectively ending the competition between TrueType, and PostScript Type I fonts. Version 7 was also the first version of Adobe Illustrator to support plug-ins, which greatly extended illustrator’s capabilities by allowing third-parties to add capabilities that were not part of the standard Illustrator functionality.
Illustrator included a range of features that supported Web publishing in the early 2000’s, including the ability to save to the PDF and SVG formats, as well as offering a rasterization preview for artwork exported in a bitmap (non-Vector) format. Adobe also introduced the Adobe SVG Viewer (ASV) in 2000, which allowed users to view SVG in many browsers. Adobe discontinued ASV in 2009, although Illustrator provided native SVG support for all major browsers by 2011, making the separate viewer unnecessary.
The release of version 11 was marketed as Illustrator CS, or Creative Suite which occurred in 2003. The Adobe Creative Suite (CS) also included other graphic design applications such as InDesign and Photoshop. This version was also the first to support the creation of 3-dimensional objects. Illustrator CS2 was released in 2005. New features for Illustrator CS2 included a custom workspace and control palette. Adobe acquired Aldus and with this acquisition came a competing drawing app, FreeHand. Adobe discontinued support for FreeHand in 2007 and began developing tools to support the transition of FreeHand users to Illustrator. Illustrator CS3 was released in 2007 and added features including live color, multiple crop areas, and a color guide panel.
Adobe Illustrator CS4 was released in 2008, which made improvements to existing tools and introduced some FreeHand features such as the ability to maintain multiple art boards. Each art board can maintain a separate version of an image, allowing users to store multiple versions of the image within a single document. Additional tools were introduced in Illustrator CS5 including an upgraded gradient tool that provides the user with greater control when manipulating colors across a path. A Blob Brush feature was also introduced with this version, which allows the user to merge overlapping brushstrokes more easily.
Illustrator CS5, released in 2010, introduced the Bristle Brush, which provides more natural looking strokes. Additional changes that are new with this version include Freehand’s Perspective Grid and various improvements to existing features. Version CS6, released in 2012, introduced many new features, including a new interface and layer panels. Changes to the color ramp and RGB codes as well as various bug fixes also improved Illustrator CS6’s performance.
After Illustrator CS6, Adobe introduced Illustrator CC as it became part of the Creative Cloud. The current version is Adobe Illustrator CC 2023.
Instructional programs, training, books, and tutorials for learning Illustrator
The three most popular ways to learn Illustrator are through classes, online instruction, and books. Instant input from the teacher while working in a regular classroom setting is one of Illustrator courses’ main benefits. In order to avoid having to drive to a distant place, many students choose to learn Illustrator online. Self-paced lessons and Illustrator books are useful for those who like working alone, wish to study Illustrator without leaving their office or home, or both.
In order to use Illustrator starting with the October 2022 (version 27.0) release, your system must meet these minimum requirements.
Minimum system requirements for Illustrator
Applicable for
October 2022 (version 27.0) release
Processor
AMD Athlon 64 CPU with SSE 4.2 or later, or multicore Intel processor (with 64-bit capability).
Operating system
Versions V21H1 and V20H2 of Windows 11 and Windows 10 (64-bit).
Versions V1607 (2016) and V1809 of Windows Server (2019).
Windows 10 versions 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909, and 2004 are not supported.
RAM
RAM of 8 GB (16 GB recommended)
Hard disk
Installation requires 2 GB of free hard-disk space; more space is needed during installation; SSD is advised.
Display resolution on monitors is 1024 x 768. (1920 x 1080 recommended)
You need a Windows 10 tablet or monitor with a touch-screen in order to use Illustrator’s Touch workspace (Microsoft Surface Pro 3 recommended)
UI Scalability Restrictions: 1920 x 1080 is the bare minimum display resolution necessary.
GPU
Your Windows must: in order to improve Illustrator performance using the GPU Performance function.
have 1 GB or more of VRAM (4 GB recommended)
Support OpenGL 4.0 or a later version.
Supported GPU devices is a list of GPUs that are often used.
Limitations of Outline Mode: 2000 pixels in any dimension minimum display resolution requirement.
Ensure that your GPU device drivers are installed and updated.
Supported GPU devices
NVDIA
- NVIDIA Quadro K Series
- NVIDIA Quadro 6xxx
- NVIDIA Quadro 5xxx
- NVIDIA Quadro 4xxx
- NVIDIA Quadro 2xxx
- NVIDIA Quadro 2xxxD
- NVIDIA Quadro 6xx
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX Series (4xx, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx, 9xx, Titan)
- NVIDIA Quadro M Series
- NVIDIA Quadro P Series
- NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
INTEL
- Intel HD Graphics 4600 Series
- Intel HD Graphics 5000 Series
- Intel Iris Graphics 5000 Series
- Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5000 Series
- Intel HD Graphics 6000 Series
- Intel Iris Graphics 6000 Series
AMD
- AMD Radeon R9 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R7 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Graphics
- AMD FirePro V Series Graphics
- AMD FirePro W Series Graphics
Important: The most recent NVIDIA GPU card drivers may not be detected by Microsoft Windows.
Languages that Illustrator is available in include:
- Dansk
- Deutsch
- English
- Español
- Français*
- Hebrew*
- Hungarian
- Italiano
- Nederlands
- Polish
- Português (Brasil)
- Svenska
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- čeština
- Русский
- عربي*
- 日本語
- 简体中文
- 繁體中文
- 한국어
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