Illustrator’s key tools are line tools, shape builders, pen tools, custom effects, typography effects, opacity tools, 3D structuring, gradients and meshes, and smart object support for detailed designs.

Illustrator’s precise on-time backup solution means that even if your computer experiences a crash or a system error just by opening Illustrator back-up - all your last work is still there. Touch-enable devices can benefit from Illustrator’s support for them as designers build beautiful animations with the touch of their fingertips. They can zoom-in to the precise pixel location and adjust its colors, and shapes. The pen tool in Illustrator has changed how designers create pixel perfect works of art. And designers won’t even need to rely so much on their desktop computers anymore, as Adobe is pushing out new Cloud and Mobile tools that help designers to design on Illustrator using smaller and more compact type devices. It continues to find new uses every single day. Illustrator’s good for wireframes, general vectors, drawing, web design, icon design, and layout design. Illustrators are the leading vector design software that graphic designers can use to create wonderful digital and print art.

Adobe Illustrator has been shaping the methodology of graphics design for nearly three decades now, and recently FastCoDesign shared a 20 minute timelapse of the software, and what it was able to do in those three decades.

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