The popularity of Adobe Illustrator is constantly rising.  More and more digital design artists prefer the Illustrator because of the flexibility it provides and its ability to export high quality digital arts.  Graphic designers employ Adobe Illustrator for a wide variety of tasks. The following will show how designers make use of Illustrator.

  • Creating icons.

The Illustrator’s features, such as the potent grid system allows the user to make icon graphics accurately.  Plus the align tools and snapping feature is very useful in drawing icons.

  • Drawing and editing maps.

With the aid of the pen and line tools in Adobe Illustrator, you can draw shapes and lines in with ease.  Making and editing maps will seem effortless if you have learned how to use the Illustrator.

  • Making Info Graphics.

Info graphics are employed in magazines and newspapers to effectively show trends, figures and statistics.  Making pie charts and graphs is made easier and faster by the Illustrator as you only have to encode the data.  It will automatically make the graph or chart of your choosing.

  • Creating realistic things.

The mesh tool and the gradient tool featured in the Adobe Illustrator can render your drawing a more realistic look.  The aforementioned tools allow you to make smooth and realistic shadings

  • Making cartoons.

With the use of the Pen tool in Adobe Illustrator, you can easily make shapes and color them as well.  To make your cartoon drawing more appealing, you can utilize the gradient tool to add shades.  If in case your client, or even yourself, is dissatisfied with the color palette used, you can easily replace the colors.

  • Creating logos.

While majority of professional logos are made with vector programs, having the EPS gives you fine looking and well-defined logo heads.  You can choose to separate the logo from the background so you can easily paste the logo in advertising materials and company profiles.

 

 

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