This article's does not adequately key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article's. September 2014 Adobe Illustrator is a developed and marketed by. Originally designed for the , development of Adobe Illustrator began in 1985. Along with Adobe's shift to monthly or annual subscription service delivered over the Internet , Illustrator CC was released. The latest version, Illustrator CC 2018, was released in March 2018 and is the 22nd generation in the product line. Adobe Illustrator was reviewed as the best vector graphics editing program in 2018 by. Adobe Illustrator Versions 1—1. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of. Photoshop is primarily geared toward manipulation and styles of , while Illustrator provides results in the and graphic areas of. Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1. Early versions of the software did not support working in preview mode and users needed to have two windows open on their desktop in order to have a live preview of their work. One window to show the work in progress, the other window to show a preview of the work in progress. Versions 2—6 Although during its first decade Adobe developed Illustrator primarily for Macintosh, it sporadically supported other platforms. In the early 1990s, Adobe released versions of Illustrator for , , and platforms, but they were discontinued due to poor market acceptance. The first version of Illustrator for Windows, version 2. The next Windows version, version 4. Note that there were no versions 2. And there was no version 6 for Windows. 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. Version 6 was the last truly Macintosh version of Illustrator. The interface changed radically with the following version to bring consistency between Mac and windows computer platforms. The changes remained until CS6 when some small steps were taken to restore the app to a slightly more Mac-like interface. Versions 7—10 Adobe Illustrator 10, the last version before the Creative Suite rebrand With the introduction of Illustrator 7 in 1997, Adobe made critical changes in the user interface with regard to path editing and also to converge on the same as , and many users opted not to upgrade. Like Photoshop, Illustrator also began supporting plug-ins, greatly and quickly extending its abilities. With true user interface parity between Macintosh and Windows versions starting with 7. Designers tended to prefer Illustrator, Drawcord, or FreeHand, based on which software they learned first. Adobe bought Aldus in 1994 for PageMaker. As a result, acquired FreeHand in 1995 from its original developer, , and continued its development through 2004. The difference in strengths between Photoshop and Illustrator became clear with the rise of the Internet, Illustrator was enhanced to support Web publishing, previewing, , and Scalable Vector Graphics. Adobe was an early developer of SVG for the web and Illustrator exported SVG files via the SVG File Format plugin. Using the Adobe SVG Viewer ASV , introduced in 2000, allowed users to view SVG images in most major browsers until it was discontinued in 2009. Native support for SVG was not complete in all major browsers until Internet Explorer 9 in 2011. Version 9 included a tracing feature, similar to that within Adobe's discontinued product. Versions CS—CS6 Illustrator CS was the first version to include 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple objects. Illustrator CS2 version 12 was available for both the and operating systems. It was the last version for the Mac which did not run natively on processors. Among the new features included in Illustrator CS2 were Live Trace, Live Paint, a control palette and custom workspaces. Live Trace allows for the and improved upon the previous tracing abilities. Live Paint allows users more flexibility in applying color to objects, specifically those that overlap. Adobe now owned FreeHand along with the entire Macromedia product line and in 2007, Adobe announced that it would discontinue development and updates to the FreeHand program. Instead, Adobe would provide tools and support to ease the transition to Illustrator. CS3 included interface updates to the Control Bar, the ability to align individual points, multiple Crop Areas, the Color Guide panel and the Live Color feature among others. CS3 was released March 27, 2007. CS4 was released in October 2008. It features a variety of improvements to old tools along with the introduction of a few brand new tools acquired from FreeHand. The artboards allow you to create multiple versions of a piece of work within a single document. Other tools include the Blob Brush, which allows multiple overlapping vector brush strokes to easily merge or join, and a revamped gradient tool allowing for more in-depth color manipulation as well as transparency in gradients. CS5 was released in April 2010. Version CS6 was the sixteenth generation of Adobe Illustrator. Adobe added many more features and several bug fixes such as a new user interface, layer panels, RGB codes, and color ramp to increase performance. CS6 was released on April 23, 2012. Version CC Along with the result of Adobe's shift on its release strategy , Illustrator CC was released. This version the 17th was the first to be only sold in a subscription-based service model, in line with the other software in the formerly called. As part of Creative Cloud, this version brought improvements in that subject such as color, font and program settings syncing, saving documents to the cloud, and integration with a creative collaborative network , as well as other features such as a new touch-compatible type tool, images in brushes, CSS extraction, and files packaging. Branding Starting with version 1. 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 in Illustrator CS 11. In CS3, Adobe changed the suite branding once again, to simple colored blocks with two-letter abbreviations, resembling a. Illustrator was represented by the letters Ai in white against an orange background oranges and yellows were prominent color schemes in Illustrator branding going back as far as version 4. The CS4 icon is almost identical, except for a slight alteration to the font and the color which is dark gray. CS6 changed it a bit to a brown square with a yellow border and yellow lettering, and in CC 2014 the colors were upgraded to a sharper tone and thinner borders. A sidebar that appears at the left of the screen with a variety of tools to select, create, and manipulate objects or artworks in Illustrator. These tools can be selected as following: drawing, typing, painting, reshaping, slicing and cutting, symbolism, moving and zooming, and graph. Some tools have a small triangle at the bottom right of the toolbox icon. A small triangle has the option to view or expand some hidden tools by hold down the mouse button on the triangle. Some examples of basic tools in illustrator are selection tools, paintbrush tools, pen tools, pencil tools e. Selection tools are used to the layout, adjust, and organize the artwork by selecting, positioning, and stacking object accurately. Moreover, selection tools can group, lock or hide, and measure objects. Paintbrush tools can be used to modify the appearance of the artwork. There are different types of brushes: calligraphic, scatter, art, pattern, and bristle. Pen tools create straight and curved lines for the artwork and they can add anchor points to paths and delete from paths. Pencil tools allow the user to draw and edit freehand lines. Release history of Adobe Illustrator, sorted by version number Version Platforms Release date Notable features 1. Retrieved June 22, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2010. The Nelson Group, Inc. Retrieved February 11, 2011. In the matter of Adobe Systems Incorporated, Et Al. Archived from PDF on May 24, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2011. Archived from on December 19, 2008. Retrieved December 29, 2008. John Nack on Adobe. Retrieved July 19, 2009. Retrieved September 5, 2017. Archived from on January 3, 2008. 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