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Adobe Illustrator is the industry’s leading vector-based graphics software. Aimed at everyone from graphics professionals to interactive designers, Illustrator enables you to design layouts, logos for print, or vector-based images that can be imported into other programs, such as Photoshop, InDesign, and XD. Adobe also enables you to easily and quickly create files by saving Illustrator documents as templates (so that you can efficiently reuse designs) and using a predefined library and document size.

Illustrator also integrates with the other products in the Adobe Creative Cloud by enabling you to create PDF documents easily within Illustrator. In addition, you can use Illustrator files in Photoshop, InDesign, and the Adobe special effects program, After Effects.

Here are some of the things you can create and do in Illustrator:

 Create technical drawings (floor plans or architectural sketches, for example), logos, illustrations, posters, packaging, and web graphics.

 Create multiple screens for websites or mobile design.

 Align text along a path so that it bends in an interesting way.

 Lay out text into multicolumn brochures — text automatically flows from one column to the next.

 Create charts and graphs using graphing tools.

 Create gradients that can be imported and edited into other programs, such as Experience Design.

 Create documents quickly and easily using existing templates and included stock graphics in Illustrator.

 Save a drawing in almost any graphic format, including the Adobe PDF, PSD, EPS, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, and SVG formats.

 Save your Illustrator files for the web by using the Asset Export panel, or Export ⇒ Export As menu item.

Illustrator has new features for you to investigate, many of them integrated in the chapters in Book 5. Find out about new tools, including features to help you use patterns.