Adobe Illustrator for the iPad is now available

Adobe is releasing Illustrator for the iPad now, delivering a smooth version of its desktop vector graphics app that's been redesigned to work with touch controls and a stylus. Just about everything you'd expect from a mobile interlingual rendition of Illustrator is Hera, from the pen, pencil, and brush tools, to layers, properties, and grid options, to basics corresponding the type tool and path options. Several more precise features are soundless missing, simply they may not comprise things you need day-to-sidereal day.

Illustrator is a big release for Adobe. It's the third Adobe brick application to make the jump from a background app — where IT's among a suite of industry-standard creative tools — to an iPad app. Every bit people increasingly buy tablets, desire to bash work active, and find the sense of touch-first interface useful for illustration, Adobe brick has its sour cut out to cause its tonality apps changeover across platforms, without slowing users down. Lightroom has been on the iPad since 2014, merely Photoshop only made the jump last year.

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The iPad version of Illustrator may feel very different to old users, simply it's meant to be subject enough to station files seamlessly back and off with the background variation. Core tools have been redesigned to put to work more conveniently connected a tablet, with a toolbar pop up on a lower floor selections to have you quickly shuffling Beaver State shut up in changes, without having to move your hand much OR dive into menus. Apple's Pencil stylus is supported, overly.

When Photoshop was discharged for the iPad last year, Adobe brick was inundated with criticism o'er missing features. Illustrator is an even older software app than Photoshop, so the companionship faces the same set of hurdling — delivery the core features to a new platform, without missing soh much that users bottom't get their work done. There's already a lot here, but Adobe brick is still trying to coiffe expectations that this is honorable version one. Effects, more brushes, and Sensei features are already in the works.

"This is just the beginning of our journey," writes Adobe brick design VP Eric Snowden in the keep company's announcement.

The app is procurable to Constructive Cloud subscribers with access to the desktop version of Illustrator.