Version 4 was, however the first version of Illustrator to support editing in preview mode, which did not appear in a Macintosh version until 5. With the introduction of Illustrator 6 in , Adobe made critical changes in the user interface with regards to path editing and also to converge on the same user interface as Adobe Photoshop , and many users opted not to upgrade.
To this day, many users find the changes questionable. Like Photoshop, Illustrator also began supporting plug-ins, greatly and quickly extending its abilities. With true ports of the Macintosh versions to Windows starting with version 7 in , designers could finally standardize on Illustrator.
Aldus ported FreeHand to Windows but it was not the equal of Illustrator. Adobe bought Aldus in for PageMaker, and as part of the transaction it sold FreeHand to Macromedia which was later acquired by Adobe. Illustrator CS was the first version to include 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple 3D objects. Live Trace allows for the conversion of bitmap imagery into vector art.
Live Paint allows users more flexibility in applying color to objects, specifically those that overlap. The Mac version is a universal binary. New features include Live Color, which provides tools for creating color harmonies based on color theory, and the ability to dynamically apply colors to selected objects and shift the tone of an entire illustration at one time. Remapping controls are also provided for reducing the numbers of colors in an artwork.
Starting with version 1. Warnock desired a Renaissance image to evoke his vision of Postscript as a new Renaissance in publishing, and Adobe employee Luanne Seymour Cohen, who was responsible for the early marketing material, found Venus' flowing tresses a perfect vehicle for demonstrating Illustrator's strength in tracing smooth curves over bitmap source images.
Over the years the rendition of this image on Illustrator's splash screen and packaging became more stylized to reflect features added in each version. The image of Venus was replaced albeit still accessible via easter egg in Illustrator CS In CS3, Adobe changed the suite branding once again, to simple colored blocks with two-letter abbreviations, resembling a periodic table of elements.
Illustrator was represented by the letters Ai against an orange background. Illustrator Middle Eastern versions come with special settings for typing and laying out Arabic or Hebrew text, such as:. The first version of Illustrator, which was conceived of by Adobe cofounder John Warnock, appeared about 28 years ago, in late The first version available to the general public was released on March 19, Illustrator is used by artists and graphic designers who create logos, icons, charts, infographics, posters, ads, books, magazines, and brochures.
Even comic book illustrators use it. If you look at the Adobe logo, for instance, it needs to look as nice and sharp on a business card as it does on a three-story billboard. To create graphics that can scale in size and still look sharp, without any pixilation, you need to use vector graphics, which use mathematical equations to preserve the shapes of images at any size or scale.
Unless you use vector graphics, images are not going to scale well or the files are going to be too big in size. Actually, just about every industry uses Illustrator, from two-dimensional CAD designs in engineering fields to the greeting cards made by Hallmark. People designing watches use Illustrator, and people designing shoes use it too.
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