Adobe Illustrator Information Reviews & Insights

Score8.9 out of 10

1,575 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Adobe Illustrator Reviews

19 Reviews

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Great overall tool for Vector Graphics

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Illustrator CC for Marketing and Sales purposes. The types of elements we typically create are social media ads, paid digital ads, logos, branding elements, icons, landing page assets, infographics, charts, email banners and graphics, as well as video thumbnails and other video assets. We use these graphics on social media, on our website, for sales tools, and for videos.

Pros

Full control of vector elements which work well for any type of scaling for print as well as precise specs for web
Many useful tools to make a project's workflow easier
Built-in AI assisted tools to improve project speed and eliminate manual editing

Cons

Adobe Illustrator CC could use an update in regards to a working gradient on editable text, right now the workaround is a little tedious

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Illustrator CC is a widely recognized tool that has a lot of integration features with other platforms and programs that I think blow other applications out of the water. I think any creative team should be using Adobe Illustrator CC as it is the most consistent platform. I don't think illustrator is the best for digital illustrators as there is another tool that is better suited for that.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (Computer Software company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

Best application for graphic designers

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 24, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a graphic designer. We heavily design and use this for packaging. Our industry is in tech and mobile accessories.

Pros

Features are easy to find
Connects with Dropbox
Has some amazing tools always improving

Cons

Making it an option to do outee glows with a transparent shape
Going over new tools on updates

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect application for packaging design. Layout design and photo manipulation could use some work

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (Wireless company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Adobe Ilustrator Shines Brightly Above Competition

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 13, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Adobe Illustrator for a variety of projects such as Movie posters, class projects, marketing, and promotional materials. Creating artworks and putting together marketing plans has never been easier thanks to Adobe Illustrator. On a weekly basis at least 5-10 projects utilize adobe Illustrator at one point or another.

Pros

Art-boards
Drawing
Editing

Cons

More Convenient controls
Better connectivity with Photoshop
Additional workspaces

Likelihood to Recommend

One project that we used Adobe illustrator for was the creation of a movie poster for the communications department. While this could have been done in any variety of programs, Adobe Illustrator was the best suited for the job. After the drawing and design was completed we moved the project over for final touch ups in Photoshop for a quick and easy finish.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (Media Production company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

create you thought's visuals by adobe illustrator

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Whenever we need to create a flyer, Illustration, Or vector image so we Use Adobe Illustrator. It gives us high-quality images. We use it for wireframing.

Pros

Its tracing process for a image. You can use pen tools and create whatever you want.
You can export you file in pdf, svg, png format.
Its gives you high quality vector images.

Cons

Its crashing problem. Frequently crash if you don't save your work it will be gone.
I don't understand how gradients tools work. its been so long everytime I stuck in it.
Everything is good in Adobe, just need to improve crashing problem.

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe has lots of things. If would say which Adobe is best.
1. Image tracing: It traces an image perfectly and gives you a vector image.
2. Union, subtraction, etc. tools. just select the shape and use the blend tool.
3. Pen tool is the most likable thing.
4. Layers and color pallet thing.

Ankit Kumar

Sr UI UX Designer in Product Management at Matchmove pay pvt ltd (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Designers Should Have it

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a 2D LaserCut designer. Adobe Illustrator CC gives me quick artistic tools in a blink.

Pros

Organize objects for cutting
Trace images
Create models in few clicks

Cons

May need some geometrical tools such as fillet, chamfer, trim .. etc in a more simple steps
DXF support needs some improvements
Text outlining for connected letters needs a better algorithm

Likelihood to Recommend

For artistic designs, it’s very handy. For technical drawing or models where dimensions are critical, it’s helpful.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Computer Networking company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

[An] Essential Tool for Serious Designers

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use [Adobe] Illustrator [CC] daily in my demands in the marketing sector; we produce content for social networks, blogs, prints, eBooks, [and] videos among others. Its quality, integration, and ease help a lot in our work. We produce quality content with a system that best matches our expectations. I haven't found any software that allows me to work with vectors and illustrations with this quality and with the variety of tools and functions that [Adobe] Illustrator [CC] has.

Pros

Illustration
Vectorization
Printed materials

Cons

Memory distribution
Add some [Adobe] PhotoShop functions
Better distribution of sub-tools

Likelihood to Recommend

[For] companies that work with the creation of visual identity, this software [is] essential to use. [It is suited for] companies and places that regularly use vectors and illustrations in their demands, such as marketing agencies and companies with internal marketing sectors. [It is additionally suited for] software companies that regularly work with website creation and product design, [as well as] companies that use packaging designers. All these cases I see as an essential use of [Adobe] Illustrator [CC].

Lucas Piemontez

Head de marketing in Marketing at Amplifique.me (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Get Illustrated!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Illustrator CC is being used by our design team. We have seven Creative Cloud licenses which includes the Adobe Illustrator app. The bulk of the Adobe Illustrator CC usage is handled in marketing, when we need graphics created for different marketing campaigns. Other reasons for Illustrator is to alter purchased graphics or logos. Using Adobe Illustrator CC allows us to have the best tool on the market to create or edit vector art.

Pros

Ability to create high end vector graphics.
Ability to edit purchased graphics and tailor them to your specific needs.
Ability to import non-vector images or graphics and convert them to vector.

Cons

The biggest challenge with Adobe Illustrator CC is that it does take time to learn. There is so much you can do that it can be overwhelming without proper training.
For my use, Adobe Illustrator CC has all I need.

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Illustrator CC is great to use to create new graphics. If you have a designer that is highly talented and has an eye to create from scratch, Adobe Illustrator CC is the way to go. You get high quality that can be blown up to the size of a billboard. We've created large banners in the past and they always came out amazingly.

Verified User

Manager in Product Management (Publishing company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

17 years of experience

Illustrator is very good at what it does. Can it do even more?

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Illustrator CC is used almost daily in the publishing department of my company to access color information from our catalogue of EPS files, although it is also used frequently across the company. [Adobe Illustrator CC] is a reliable vector editor, useful to prepare client files for printing/press preflight, as well as create our own images to be used in digital and printed publications.

Pros

Create resizable images (vector images)
Export files into image files at multiple sizes
Color management: remove spot colors before printing; gather CMYK or RGB values to ensure consistent color use across all projects — this is something that Adobe CC Libraries also assists with greatly.
Create files for web use

Cons

Access to colors or selecting an area of an image can take a few more clicks than expected.
The trace tools have come a long way since older versions of Illustrator but still do not reliably transform every image into usable vectors, i.e., you cannot easily transform a photo into line art by merely using a trace tool.
I would like to see more free-hand vector pen tools

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Illustrator [CC] is great for creating graphics. It is not as well suited for multi-page text-and-image documents (InDesign is your best bet there) or photo editing (you want Photoshop). Sometimes [Adobe Illustrator CC] makes your graphic art so simple, as it has many helpful tools, and Adobe even offers tutorials on their website as a reliable resource for learning how to use their extensive tools better. However, artists looking to draw in vectors may prefer a software with more brush options and other artist-focused tools (Clip Studio Paint comes to mind here as being very artist friendly, but I am uncertain about its vector properties). In summary, Illustrator does logos and graphics incredibly well, and can be used as substitute for text layout software in a pinch.

Courtney Birnbaum

Senior Specialist, Publications at Learfield IMG College (Publishing, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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Adobe Illustrator CC: Half the battle when it comes to making high-end explainer videos!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Illustrator CC is the tool for creating clean-looking, infinitely resizable/enlargeable illustrations and graphical elements. It is additionally 50% of my business's workflow for creating animated explainer videos for our corporate clients, which is a sizable portion of our annual work. The tight integration between Adobe Illustrator CC and Adobe After Effects allows for an efficient, simple workflow that we have used time and time again to produce excellent results that pleased the client.

Pros

Fast, easy-to-understand vector drawing and modification tools
Tight integration with After Effects for an efficient animation workflow
Industry-standard support for decades-old vector formats all the way through the present

Cons

Toolset is sometimes confusing for Photoshop users attempting to migrate
Vector drawing is more similar to 3D modeling than traditional drawing, and awareness of this seems limited/could use more marketing dollars being thrown at it
Boolean operations using the pathfinder tools are absolutely essential to my own workflow but kind of buried as a feature. I think they deserve a higher-level integration into the toolset.

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Illustrator CC is super useful if you need to create an icon or shape object that is more complex than a primitive (square, circle) all the way through creating complex vector-illustrated characters for animation, and it is great for embedding and editing custom vector smart objects in Photoshop (essentially Adobe Illustrator CC files contained within a Photoshop layer)--but it is not a piece of software that a Photoshop user could just hop over to and know how to use. There is a definite learning curve, and I imagine a new user just trying to get it to do one specific thing might be easily frustrated

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (Animation company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

18 years of experience

One of the best design tools

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 12, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Illustrator is a must use design tool in our company regardless of beginning a design process with other software. Tool has simple functionality for basic drawing, it's an enormously advanced graphic design tool with many features that can make designing projects easier. I have been able to make things as small as stickers, banners, buttons, and more. The usability is great even you are a designer or marketer.

Pros

It is easy to use.
It has the most important wide range of tools to create, modify and customize draws, images, vector, details, navigator, and more.
Working with vectors is a great way to create very polished and clean designs.

Cons

There is nothing that I currently dislike about using the software.

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Illustrator is great for creating and editing vector graphics. It also integrates well with the rest of Adobe World. Sharing with a cloud is amazing possibility. Also, I am able to save or import files of many different types.
For a less experienced designer it is very difficult to habituate or work in such a complicated interface—there are too many options/features and too many buttons. However, I am a marketer and use it for my purposes without any problems.

Ostap Yaroshevych

Marketing Manager in Marketing at NEWOLDSTAMP (Internet, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Illustrator is very good at what it does. Can it do even more?

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Create resizable images (vector images)
Export files into image files at multiple sizes
Color management: remove spot colors before printing; gather CMYK or RGB values to ensure consistent color use across all projects — this is something that Adobe CC Libraries also assists with greatly.
Create files for web use

Cons

Access to colors or selecting an area of an image can take a few more clicks than expected.
The trace tools have come a long way since older versions of Illustrator but still do not reliably transform every image into usable vectors, i.e., you cannot easily transform a photo into line art by merely using a trace tool.
I would like to see more free-hand vector pen tools

Likelihood to Recommend

Courtney Birnbaum

Senior Specialist, Publications at Learfield IMG College (Publishing, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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