Adobe Illustrator 2025 software is the industry standard vector-drawing environment for designing across media. Express your creative vision with shapes, color, effects, and typography.
Adobe Illustrator 2025 handles large, complex files efficiently and seamlessly moves designs between Adobeโs creative applications. Familiar tasks are streamlined, from inline editing of layer names to precise color sampling.
This Adobe Software features the Adobe Mercury Performance System, which provides native 64-bit support for macOS and Windows. This support enhances tasks such as opening, saving, exporting large files, and previewing elaborate designs.
The Touch Type tool of Adobe Illustrator 2025 gives you even more control over type: Move, scale, and rotate individual characters knowing you can change the font or copy at any time.
With Adobe Illustrator, you can share your work directly from within the application and sync colors using Adobe Kuler. Your entire creative world is together in one placeโonly in Adobe Creative Cloud.
Adobe Illustrator 2025 allows for more powerful manipulation of type. Place multiple files with complete control, and create brushes from photos. Design for the web, knowing you can quickly copy and paste automatically generated CSS code. Experience a new level of creativity with type: individual characters now act as distinct objects. You can move, scale, and rotate text characters while having the flexibility to change the font or edit at any time. Plus, you can use your favorite mouse, stylus, or multitouch device.
Adobe Illustrator Features:
- Touch Type tool. Design with type in a powerful new way. You can now manipulate characters as individual objects. Experiment with moving, scaling, and rotating them, knowing you can change the font or edit any time. Additionally, you can use multitouch devices, such as a mouse or stylus.
- Images in brushes. Paint with a brush made from a photo. Art, Pattern, and Scatter brushes can contain raster images, you can create complex organic designs with simple brush strokes.
- Font search. Find the perfect font โ fast. In the Character panel, type a style such as โboldโ or โitalic,โ a font family, or any other part of a font name.
- Sync Fonts. Sync Fonts will change the way you work with type. Quickly find the perfect font from the expanding library of Adobe Typekit fonts, sync it to your system, and have it available for immediate use.
- CSS extraction. Hand-coding web elements such as icons and patterns can be frustrating. Now, create websites faster by letting Illustrator generate CSS code for you, even for a complete logo that includes gradients. Copy and paste the code right into your web editor.
- Sync Colors. Capture color themes from the world around you using the Adobe Kuler iPhone app. You can share your themes and explore thousands of others on the Kuler website.
- Area and point type conversion. Quickly switch between area text and point text. Text object conversion is instantaneous, allowing you to design freely in your text layouts. You can also work just as easily with imported fonts, switching formats whenever needed.
More features:
- Behance Integration. Save work directly from Adobe Illustrator to Behance to showcase finished projects or share a work in progress. As you perfect your work and upload new versions, you can receive immediate feedback from creatives worldwide.
- File Packaging. File packaging automatically gathers and saves the necessary fonts, linked graphics, and a package report into a single folder. Efficiently hand off Illustrator files to production or keep your working files organized by packaging your project.
- Unembedded images. Easily unembed photos that have been placed in an Adobe Illustrator file. You can quickly make images available for editing or extract files embedded in artwork you received from someone else.
- Sophisticated Vector Drawing Tools: Create compelling vector graphics for print, web, mobile, and video. You can experiment freely with intricate shapes, complex effects, and elegant typography.
- Mercury Performance System. Achieve precision, speed, and rock-solid stability while working on large, complex files. With native 64-bit support on macOS and Windows, the Adobe Mercury Performance System allows you to access all your RAM, making it easy to open, save, and export large files while previewing intricate designs.
- Multiple artboards. Organize and view up to 100 artboards of varying sizes, overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print independently or together.
Other Features:
- Gradients and Transparency: Gradients directly on objects by defining the dimensions of elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Apply gradients to strokesโalong the length, width, or within the stroke itself.
- Variable-width strokes. Draw strokes with variable widths, quickly and smoothly adjusting at any point. Create and save width profiles and apply them to any stroke, or use variable-width presets.
- Crisp graphics for web and mobile. Create and align vector objects precisely on your documentโs pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for precise control over individual text frames.
- Image Trace. Convert raster images to editable vectors with a powerful tracing engine that provides exceptional control over colors and shapes. Achieve clean lines, accurate fits, and reliable results with simple, intuitive options.
- Pattern creation. Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with various types of repeating vector patterns, which can be edited whenever needed for maximum design flexibility.
Changes in Adobe Illustrator 2025 29.0.1 :
- Align, arrange, and move objects on a path. Use Objects on Path to attach and align objects to a curved or straight-line path, then rearrange and move them easily without losing alignment.
- Trace images with more accuracy and control. Use enhanced Image Trace to create crisp, editable traces with close-fitting curves and fewer anchor points. Preserve transparent backgrounds and linear gradients, auto-group paths, and convert basic shapes into live shapes as you trace.
- Create vector art in 3D with Project Neo (Beta). Build 3D artwork in Project Neo (Beta) and bring it to Illustrator to create stunning dimensional designs, graphics, and illustrations.
- Experience improved mockup quality for planar surfaces. Vector art auto-adjusts onto planar surfaces realistically when you create a Mockup.
- Adjust density strength for pattern creation. Set the density level for patterns and clear settings easily in Text to Pattern. You can now access Text to Pattern from the Swatches panel.
- Apply shape fills with greater control. Easily turn prompt suggestions on or off and clear settings in Generative Shape Fill.
- Create vector graphics with more control. Turn prompt suggestions on or off and easily clear settings using Text to Vector Graphic. The subjects and icons you create will not have a background layer.
- Access and explore tools and tasks directly on the canvas. Use the Contextual Task Bar to find the most important next actions for the Direct Selection tool, Objects on Path, and various object selections.
- Manage East Asian text layouts. View, analyze, and modify East Asian text layouts smoothly when opening older Illustrator documents using Reflow Viewer.
- Explore enhancements inspired by your feedback. Scale artwork with artboard, create gradients from the Swatches panel, cut objects evenly using the Knife tool with the help of smart guides, and experience faster performance.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 11 v23H2, v22H2, and v21H2, Windows 10 v22H2 and v21H2
- macOS v14 (Sonoma), macOS v13 (Ventura), macOS v12 (Monterey)