Illustrator
Creating art assets for games, Designing logos and illustrations
It's a professional vector editor best for creating scalable graphics, but requires time to learn.
Creating complex 3D models or photorealistic art
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FIRST-HAND READS
What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“something half as refined as Astute's plugins for Illustrator”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-10
“Only Illustrator seems to offer group isolation. You can double click on a group, enter the group and just edit the elements inside that group. It's such a simple feature but it massively improves the workflow of working with vectors.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-06
“exporting an svg from Illustrator and dropping into Fusion as a sketch is not a very wise approach - the scale is completely off!”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-15
“in Fusion and Illustrator it's not text that's the issue but lines/graphics”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-12
“I've always loved SVG since working with Illustrator and Inkscape back in the day”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-12-11
“kerning is usually pretty bad with Serifed fonts in, at the very least, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-10
“Photoshop and Illustrator let you work in CMYK, and is directionally correct”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-04
“I can still do all my design work in Illustrator CS6 if I want to haul out a 15 year old laptop. Sell me a version of that for Apple Silicon and I'll happily pay for it.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-30
“I generally understood how to use it a lot better than Illustrator”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-12
“Adobe Illustrator can now rotate a vector object that you paste in”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-27
“You can edit a pdf in illustrator which if it is a quick change that would work”
MIXED · features · Reddit · 2025-05-18
“I took a course that promised to teach beginners how to use Adobe Illustrator to make SVGs. That course changed my life”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-18
“Learning to use Adobe Illustrator made all the difference in getting things done in a repeatable, consistent fashion”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-16
“worked with illustrator for more than 10 years and the way I see strengths of Figma is in its layout design workflow”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-16
“Adobe Illustrator is NOT compatible with the processor. You can only use the Beta version and it is limited with what it can do.”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2025-05-16
“Utilizo o Adobe Illustrator há mais de 20 anos para criar todos os meus desenhos”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-16
“really having trouble figuring out how the paintbrush tool is supposed to work in Adobe Illustrator”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-15
“open your artwork in Adobe Illustrator, and update those fonts there. Then Shift + Ctrl + O to convert all the text to vector outlines”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-14
“Illustrator's generative-AI tools are poor because they are *minimally configurable*”
NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-04-30
“you could do logos in Photoshop, but that should be done in Illustrator.”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-04-24
“Using Illustrator to create logos was WAAAAY easier than drawing them by hand”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-04-22
“Adobe Illustrator, I used it for UI work, switched to affinity designer and been pretty happy with it”
NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2025-04-14
“being able to turn a 2D design on a 3D axis in illustrator! Eagerly awaiting that one...”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-04-14
“Illustrator and InDesign? Might as well change careers at that point. Effectively nerfed and nuked as a designer.”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-04-12
“PS and Illustrator's performance noticeably have gone straight to shit for absolutely no benefit except for a little stupid gimmicks that offer zero productivity boosts”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-04-11
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