Illustrator is a godsend...

[lynsey]

Am I the only one who once feared illustrator, but has grown attached to it? I love the versatility of it. It's very easy to manipulate designs and I am constantly using it to recreate logos using raster graphics as templates. Once u go vector, it's hard to go back.

[member_gone]

I was many years CorelDraw! fan, always finding a way not to switch to Illy. That application allways had strong productivity tools comparing to Illy. Finally, few years ago, when i realised that there would be no new versions of it for OSX, gave it a try. Needless to say that last three years a haven't got slice desire to start some graphics in Draw.

[koncepts]

If you are a good sketcher .... its a real fun to be owning illus skills.

[Micha31]

I've always loved illustrator, but couldn't wait for it to incorporate two things that CD and FH had for YEARS, transparency and multi-page/print settings support. I think since version 9(?) AI has supported transparency, still lacks the ability to have a transparent color in a gradient (like FH, CD and Flash) so you have to use an opacity mask, but it's nice that it's there at all now.

AI still doesn't have multi-page support natively though (you need a hotdoor pluggin). And i really miss the way in freehand you can have multiple artboards with different sized and corresponding dynamic printer settings. That was great.

- M;cha31

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[mx753]

I love my AI CS, I never knew what I was missing back in the raster photoshop days!

[VictoriaAnn]

Ha ha...I was so scared of Illustrator, now I'm it's biggest fan! I had to get to grips with it very quickly thanks to changes at work, and am so grateful!

When I have to do something in Photoshop now I struggle to get back into it!

[Feim]

I've started using Illy only a couple of months ago, at first it was hard to understand, but now it seems pretty easy, though I don't like some features of it, like applying a gradient. ))=

Colors are too complicated to set up, compared to PS.

[cdngrl333]

Illustrator is my favourite program...bar none. I wish it had multiple page document support as well... I remember when I first started using it - the first day was so frustrating...kept expecting fill and stroke to be foreground/background. Once I got past that it was smooth sailing. Ohhh and bezier curves...not fun to learn at first either.

[w59cb83x]

I too mostly use photoshop. But I just started to learn illy. It's so much better once you get the hang of everything.

[Radaman]

"Once u go vector, it's hard to go back." yeah theres a "such", its addicting


... seems like aim the only one that still use CorelDraw
hmm, yeah! its time 4 some changings) what version would be much suitable for the begining???

[0blivious]

it truly is a great program...it took a chunk of my change tho...

[raghav]

ATM i really want to switch to illustrator from corel draw, but after seeing the vastness of illustrator I guess i need to spend some more time on practice.

[hakule]

i still use illustrator(8) haha

[jchilders]

Illustrator rocks.

Check out this guys work. It's absolutely incredible.

http://www.khulsey.com/masters_yukio_miyamoto.html