Illustrator

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

Adobe Illustrator CC

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool.

Create vector art and illustrations using advanced, precise drawing and typography tools. Work quickly and intuitively on everything from brand identities and marketing materials to graphics for the web, video, and film. Illustrator CC is the industry-standard vector graphics software used worldwide by designers of all types, and it’s available only in Creative Cloud.

Creative Cloud for teams is a platform for creativity that connects users, their content, apps, services, hardware, learning content, and community. It gives small to midsized business customers the creative tools and services they need to collaborate and create their best work, while making software management fast, easy, and flexible.

Key features

• Sophisticated vector drawing controls—Create compelling vector graphics for print, web, mobile, and video. With precise shape-building tools, painterly brushes, and advanced path controls, you can experiment freely with intricate shapes, complex effects, and elegant typography.
• Live Corners—Finesse your designs more directly and intuitively. Edit and re-edit the corners of shapes and paths visually with on-art controls, or by entering values in the Control panel or new Corners dialog box. You can round, invert, or chamfer one or multiple corners at the same time.
• Mercury Performance System—Work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files. With native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows, the Adobe Mercury Performance System lets you access all your RAM to easily open, save, and export large files and preview intricate designs.
• Multiple artboards—Organize and view up to 100 artboards of varying sizes, overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print independently or together.
• Gradients and transparency—Interact with gradients directly on objects, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Apply gradients to strokes – along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself. Even create gradients on meshes.
• Variable-width strokes—Draw strokes with variable widths, quickly and smoothly adjusting at any point. Create and save width profiles and apply them to any stroke, or use variable-width presets.
• Crisp graphics for web and mobile—Create and align vector objects precisely on your document’s pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for precise control over individual text frames.
• Image Trace—Convert raster images to editable vectors with a powerful tracing engine that provides exceptional control over colors and shapes. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results using simple, intuitive options.
• Pattern creation—Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with different kinds of repeating vector patterns that can be edited at any time for maximum design flexibility.
• 3D and perspective drawing—Turn 2D shapes into editable 3D objects. Add lighting and surface imagery to create realistic objects. Use built-in perspective grids to draw in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, achieving the look of depth and distance.