Illustrator

“For merchandise I use Adobe Illustrator in the sense that I draw things in Clip Studio Paint and live trace them in Illustrator before adjusting the points and hoping it looks okay.”

“I currently use Adobe Illustrator v25.3.1 to apply finishing touches to scientific visualizations, especially when it's intended for external audiences or a publication.”

“I use Adobe Illustrator for anything illustration related.”

“When I start designing character sheets, cards and anything like that, I use Illustrator.”

“Occasionally I'll use Adobe Illustrator too - some of my work you can see is a combination of photography and illustration.”

“Depending on the job I'll sometimes use Illustrator.”

“I'll use Illustrator occasionally, but mostly I stick to Photoshop.”

“99% of the time, I'm making something in Illustrator.”

“Once in a while I like to make vector illustrations, and Adobe Illustrator is the perfect tool for that.”

“But abstractions aside, I do use Adobe Illustrator to create the bending patterns for myself and clients.”

“For any 2D graphics and often just to help me think visually through a 3 dimensional problem, I use Adobe Illustrator.”

“If a design is exclusively going to be laser cut I find putting it together in Illustrator to be simpler than Solidworks, especially for making reference marks, etching decorative elements, and making repeated hole patterns.”

“Sometimes I use Illustrator too, for making illustrations, miniature props, and my shop cards, tags, stickers, etc.”

“I also use Illustrator a lot, whether when working in vector line art or laying out sequences of pages for print.”

“I create rough mockups and wireframes in Illustrator but I prefer to refine prototypes in code.”

“To draw, I use Adobe Illustrator almost exclusively.”

“Illustrator is where I often end up for my design process.”

“I also recently created my first print design for my best friend's wedding program and menus in Illustrator.”

“You can edit the points in a shape (like Illustrator) but pushing and pulling the edges is the nice feature.”

“I could never get into Illustrator, it feels too limiting and rigid compared to Photoshop.”

“I also use Illustrator occasionally, but I try to avoid it.”

“I do a lot of my layout in Adobe Illustrator, the two-dimensional art program, because of my background as a graphic artist.”

“Bitmap art imported into Adobe Illustrator and converted to vector art.”

“I find Adobe Illustrator to be the easiest program to make fast wireframes, mocks, and do visual exploration.”

“I use Illustrator when I need to, but never without breaking into a cold sweat as I dread how much time I'll have until it force quits.”

“I also use Adobe Illustrator a lot: PAD exports nicely in to Illustrator, so in refining small parts (or making graphics that include a pattern piece), I'm hopping between PAD and Illustrator quite a bit.”

“But I find Illustrator doesn't come that naturally to me.”

“I don't bother much with the details of my computers since the only things I've noticed that impacts my output is the size of my screen and having enough memory to keep multiple Illustrator files and prototypes running simultaneously.”

“I draw everything in Adobe Illustrator 9 (I just do simple vector line art, so there has never been a compelling reason to re-learn CS or whatever, and now it would probably be like learning an entirely new program, plus cost money, which isn't a main thing I'm into).”

“I use Adobe Illustrator to create website and app wireframes, using a basic palette of Helvetica Nueue, rectangles, and eight shades of gray.”