Live Color

Live Color

Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color, which lets you select any artwork and interactively edit the colors to see results immediately. Use the Color Guide panel to quickly choose tints, shades, or harmonious color combinations.

Live Trace

Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace.

Drawing tools and controls

Drawing tools and controls

Draw in Illustrator more quickly and fluidly than ever. Easier and more flexible anchor point selection, improved operating performance, and a new Eraser tool help you create artwork efficiently and intuitively.

Integration with Adobe design applications

Speed your way through graphic designs and print production thanks to tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat software.

Live Paint

Easily paint any closed or partially closed area of your artwork with the Live Paint Bucket, which automatically detects and corrects gaps and lets you interactively select colors from a Swatch palette for faster work.

Advanced typography

Easily create and control type with over 100 OpenType fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strikethrough, transparent effects, and more.

Control panel

Discover more options faster and free up screen space by accessing anchor point controls, clipping masks, envelope distortions, and more from the context-sensitive Control panel.

Custom workspaces

Work more efficiently using custom workspaces that display only the panels you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time, or use workspace presets.

Adobe PDF file creation tools

Create native Adobe PDF files, including multipage PDF files, so clients and others can easily review your artwork using Adobe Acrobat or free Adobe Reader software.

Drawing tools and controls

Web and interactive tools

Easily create for the web and mobile devices using vector-based slicing tools, robust integration with Flash, New Document Profiles for web and mobile designs, the capability to preview mobile content in Adobe Device Central, and more.