Adobe’s professional drawing app, Illustrator, is now available on iPad. But are professionals interested in using it to get their work done? Maybe not.
Can Adobe Illustrator do this on the iPad!?
Illustrator is a vector drawing app, meaning you can grab your lines at any time after drawing and then bend, move, resize, and recolor them. It’s the pro tool of choice for illustration work, and now it’s available on the iPad with Apple Pencil support. And while Illustrator is far better than Photoshop for iPad, some designers see it as a half-baked effort that’s far from useful.
“Things like option-click are missing from the Apple Pencil, making it a hugely inferior tool,” graphic designer Graham Bower told Lifewire via email. “I’ve drawn over 600 practice illustrations for Reps & Sets, all in Illustrator. The ability to quickly switch between the selector and pen tool and back again is the only way to do this kind of work in high volume.”
Illustrator is much more than a simple drawing app. Unlike Photoshop, where an image is made up of pixels, Illustrator's images are vectors, which are instructions.
