A difference in UX: old InDesign on top, new InDesign on bottom. Illustrator isn’t the only app seeing a change or two, with the other designer-friendly app getting a bit of a boost in the form of an InDesign tweak or two. The crop tool is perhaps the most interesting one, simply because Illustrator hasn’t been the place where a designer would normally work with images, but as designers now work across areas, giving them the capacity to work with the tools they want makes a lot of sense, so if a designer is making a mock-up of a webpage and wants to throw an image in, a new crop tool will act a little like Photoshop, but for Illustrator. So here’s Illustrator in 2017, 30 years on: you get a new toolbar, support to export for multiple screens (technically this was added last year), an easier way to access colour themes, and a crop tool. Illustrator’s toolbar has changed from its origins in 1987 to now (left to right). You may not realise it, but the company behind the term “Photoshop” (and the software that inspires the term) has been around for quite a while, and one of its first tools is having a birthday.Ĭelebrating its 30th without all the alcohol or fear of what happens for the next 20 years, Adobe is rolling out a few changes to its integral design tool “Illustrator”, an application that has survived threat from competitors, from other solutions that were then bought out even by Adobe (say goodbye to Macromedia’s “Freehand”), with the company talking up its existence almost like a new 30 year old embracing their age ready to take on the world. Adobe’s “Illustrator” design tool turns 30 this week, and to celebrate, why not have a few updates.
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