TrustRadius Insights for Adobe Illustrator CC are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Better Image Management: Users have appreciated the improved image management in Adobe Illustrator over Corel Draw, which enhances their workflow efficiency and organization of design assets. The enhanced image-handling capabilities allow users to work with various visual elements, resulting in a more streamlined design process.
Seamless Integration with Other Adobe Products: Users find Adobe Illustrator to have better connectivity with Photoshop and other Adobe products, streamlining their design process and promoting seamless collaboration between different software tools. This integration saves time and also ensures consistency across projects by facilitating easy transfer of files and resources among Adobe applications.
Huge Amount of Tools for Designing: Users appreciate the vast array of tools available in Adobe Illustrator, enabling them to create intricate and unique designs while having a wide range of creative options at their disposal. Users have used the extensive toolset to explore diverse design techniques, styles, and effects, fostering creativity and innovation in their projects.
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Adobe Illustrator Reviews
4 Reviews
Engineering
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When creating icons for use in a website under development, we were able to save a considerable amount of man-hours because we were able to create icons of multiple sizes in a single batch. Thanks to the shape-forming tool, which combines multiple shapes to create a new shape, we were able to create vector data of complex shapes.
Pros
batch output images of various sizes
Can create vector data by extracting contours of raster images
Data can be stored in the Cloud
Easy to use due to sophisticated User Interface
Cons
Every time an app is automatically updated, the pinned icon disappears from the Windows Start menu.
The font selection tool is difficult to select from a drop-down, as the display is too small.
High memory consumption and CPU utilization for screen rendering
Likelihood to Recommend
Illustrator is suitable for batch output of images of multiple sizes or when you want to use advanced features such as AI. For example, we recommend it for creating icons for applications or banner images. Since it specializes in vector image editing, it is not suitable for processing photos. Also, the subscription is expensive, so we recommend other software if you want to use it for free.
I use this software on a daily basis as an architect and it is a very useful tool that helps us a lot of design buildings and makes plans or sections. I use it almost every day to make drawings and layer other images to make my drawings look good for clients.
Pros
Exporting
Making good drawings.
Formatting
Cons
Takes time to learn.
Lags a bit.
Often crashes with big files.
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Illustrator is used to help make drawings look good but not make them. It is easy to add color or texture but it is hard to actually make the drawings in it. I would recommend using other software to make the lines for plans and sections and using Adobe Illustrator to make it look good.
I use Adobe Illustrator CC for internal communication within the company, to prepare presentation to clients and to prepare social media pieces for publishing. I'm the only one using it in the company since there's not a lot of demand from other users. The main issue it addressed was the lack of uniformity amongst company communication, that was all over the place and by centering everything in one user, communication became standardized and there was no different look-and-feel between publications in different media.
Pros
Uniformity and fluidity with other Adobe software
very easy to layout publications
easy to export and prepare for printing
Easy to manage multiple pages documents
Great assortment of brushes, templates, swatches available anywhere on the web
Stable software. Almost never had an issue with handling large files.
Cons
Placing images in it is still very rudimentary
Integration with 3D Models
Adobe reduced the custom scripts capabilities in the latest versions of Illustrator.
Likelihood to Recommend
This is the industry-standard tool. It's very powerful and has been in the works for 20+ years. Adobe is very good at tweaking and implementing it over the years and it has done a great job with it. It works well for designing single page compositions but it handles well compositions with multiple pages, despite inDesign handling multiple page projects better. To a point, for architectural humanized blueprints, CorelDraw had a more efficient workflow than Illustrator, but I don't know if I would ever go back to CorelDraw since it is way more unstable and less practical than Illustrator.
