Vector Illustration Pro

Rock Solid Pen Tool

• Instinctively and quickly create what you want with fewer clicks
• Change node types on the fly without disrupting the flow
• Switch between the Pen and Node tools with a keystroke
• Apply pressure, scale, draw, bevel and line break settings to organic strokes
• New
  Create single polycurve from multiple curves
• New
  Keep selected curves after drawing
• New
  Eraser mode previews the next curve/straight line segment when you position the cursor (desktop only)
• New
  Snap control handles to geometry, node, mesh or guide
• New
  Snap node to curve intersection points
• New
  Click or drag existing nodes to create random overlapping nodes
• New
  Arrowheads (and tails)

Editing Curves and Shapes

• New
  Selecting Multiple Nodes with Polygon/Freehand Lasso Drawing
• New
  Align/Distribute Selections with Multiple Nodes (Desktop Only)
• New
  Transform multiple node selection using checkbox
• New
  Match the geometry of the active node to the geometry of another curve node (desktop only)
• New
  Snap structures to find control handle angles and distances (desktop only)

Switching Tools and Modes

• One tool flexibly selects, moves, rotates, scales and tilts
• Switch to the Move tool at any time with the press of a key (desktop only)
• Switch between popular tools and temporarily change modes (desktop only)
• Intuitively edit objects in groups without ungrouping
• Optionally move parent objects without their child layers

Work areas

• Create multiple workspaces in one document
• Use separate canvases for different versions of icons and other web/UI elements
• Create stationery variants in one project
• Generate artboards as separate pages in exported PDF files
• Workspace names (including emoji)
• Apply custom grids and guides to your canvas
• New
  Print workspaces on separate sheets

Symbols

• Simultaneous and automatic editing of repetitive design elements
• Create symbols with the easy-to-access symbols panel
• Replicate symbols as single symbol instances
• Default sync between instances
• Disable sync for single edits
• Edit separate object properties independently

Ruler, Guides and Column Guides

• Enable vertical/horizontal rulers that use document measurement units (desktop only)
• Create guides in any unit of measurement or percentage
• Distribute origin offset from ruler intersection
• New
  Support for multi-column guides

User Interface Design Constraints

• Avoids time-consuming design rework
• Automatic layout on work areas of devices of different sizes
• Scale and/or anchor design elements to their "parent" container
• Select object edges to constrain
• Max/Min Match for Fixed Aspect Ratio

Canvas rotation

• Turn the page as you would when sketching with paper
• Maps to popular graphics tablet and keyboard controls (desktop only)
• Disable canvas rotation to prevent accidental use

corner tool

• Carefully rounded and softened corners of shapes and lines
• For single and multiple nodes

pencil tool

• Draw lines with an intuitive balance of precision and smoothness
• Adjust weight automatically based on speed, pressure or use a fixed width
• Use stabilizer for super smooth pencil strokes
• New
  Sculpting mode for repeating and continuing strokes
• New
  arrowheads

Vivid Gradient Fills and Foils

• Draw gradients live in your design, instantly and smoothly
• Apply color gradients and transparency to fills and outlines
• Easily customize gradient nodes and rates
• Use uniform, linear, elliptical, radial, conical gradients and apply bitmaps
• Image aspect ratio control (bitmap fill/transparency only)
• New
  Linear and radial gradients respond to object scaling/shearing via skew fill handle editing

Textured Noise

• Add noise to object fills and outlines, also as a gradient

Live Boolean Geometry

• Combine, intersect, subtract, divide and merge the outlines of shapes
• Logical operations can be edited (Compound Shapes) without using Undo

Editable shapes

• Regular shapes are naturally intelligent with unique editing nodes
• Easily customize shapes, achieve clean results with eye-catching geometry
• Create perfect squares and circles by limiting primitives
• Use special and rounded corners as absolute values or %
• Customize gears, stars, arrows, pies, and 14 other smart shapes
• New
  Shape presets or save your own shapes (desktop only)

Advanced Layers and Masks

• Organize with layers, groups, stacks, and layer names
• Seamlessly mix vector and raster layer types
• New
  Thumbnail Size - Small, Medium and Large
• Isolate, rename, lock, hide and merge layers with simple shortcuts
• Unlock all locked objects at once
• Show all hidden objects at once
• Crop and mask by dragging and dropping, masks remain editable
• Apply multiple masks for complex foils
• No limits on the number of layers, masks, groups, or layer hierarchies
• Limit the impact of adjustments and layer effects by dragging and dropping
• Autoscroll moves to the selected object in the Layers panel
• New
  Color tagging (preserves PSD layer colors)

Pruning

• Add artwork to shapes and layers using Insert to Center and Paste to Center
• New
  Crop to object below using Move In and Move Out (desktop only)
• Insert Also Behind and Insert Above Current Layer

Live and outline pixel views

• View in Standard and Retina quality in Pixel View - while editing