
Illustrator CC — Part of Adobe Creative Cloud Meet the most powerful and connected Illustrator ever, loaded with dozens of
new features. Work with type in more powerful ways. Sync colors from Adobe.
Place multiple files at once with full control, and create with brushes made
from photos. Design more easily for the web.
Because Illustrator CC is part of Adobe Creative Cloud, you get immediate and
exclusive access to all the latest updates and new features as soon as they’re
released, and you always control when to download and install them. You can also
conveniently sync settings and fonts between your computers; use 20GB of cloud
storage for file sharing and collaboration; showcase your work on Behance; and
tap into a free and growing library of expert training videos from Adobe and
others.
Download, install, and run the full version of Illustrator CC on your own
computer, and conveniently manage your subscription in your games and software
library.
Product Features
- The industry-standard vector graphics software used worldwide by
designers to create digital graphics, illustrations, and typography for
all kinds of media: print, web, interactive, video, and mobile
- The full version of Illustrator CC to download, install, and run on your
computer
- Immediate access to all the latest updates and new features as soon as
they’re released
- 20GB of cloud storage to keep your files organized across multiple
computers and share your work with colleagues and clients
- Easy syncing of your Illustrator settings across multiple computers with
Adobe Creative Cloud
- Color syncing with Adobe Kuler
- A growing library of expert video tutorials to help you get up to speed
quickly and master new skills
- A professional online portfolio with Behance ProSite. Easily upload
projects to your portfolio directly from Illustrator.
- Installation on up to two computers — Mac or PC
New Features — Available Only in Illustrator CC
- Touch Type tool: Design with type in a powerful new way.
Characters can be manipulated like individual objects. Experiment with
moving, scaling, and rotating, knowing you can change the font or edit at
any time. Now you can use multitouch devices as well 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, so you can create
complex organic designs quickly — with simple brush strokes. As with all
Illustrator brushes, your strokes can be reshaped and modified at will.
- Font search: Find the perfect font — fast. In the Character
panel, type a style such as “bold” or “italic,” a font family, or
any other part of a font name. You’ll get a filtered view that lets you
see just the fonts that match your criteria.
- Multiple-file place: Import multiple files into your Illustrator
layout at the same time and with new control. Define the location and
scale of your files — images, graphics, and text — and use new
thumbnail views to see where each file will go and how big it will be.
- CSS extraction: Hand-coding web elements such as icons and
patterns can be frustrating. 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 out in the world with the Adobe
Kuler iPhone app. Share your themes and explore thousands of others
available on the Kuler website. Sync your favorite themes, and they’ll
be accessible immediately in Illustrator.
- Area and point type conversion: Instantly switch between area
type and point type. Text object conversion is instantaneous so you can
design freely in your text layouts. And you can work just as easily with
imported type, switching formats at any time.
- Auto corners for pattern brushes: Get the corners you want
without extra steps. Create pattern brushes swiftly with auto-generated
corners that perfectly match the rest of the stroke. No need to tediously
create special corners for your sharp angles.
- On-art Free Transform: Get hands-on with the power of the Free
Transform tool. Move, scale, and rotate objects directly using a
touchscreen device. Or use a mouse or other pointer right on the artboard
to transform objects in a more immediate and intuitive way.
- Faster type performance: Work faster with type, even in your most
complicated, type-intensive designs. Text that wraps around objects and
type that is set in multiple connected text frames now refreshes quickly
when you make a change.
- 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 up your project.
- Unembedded images: Easily unembed images that have been placed
and embedded in an Illustrator file. You can quickly make images available
for editing or extract files embedded in artwork you received from someone
else. Links to the image files are created automatically.
- Expanded Links panel options: Get more complete information about
any placed file in the Links panel. All of your placed elements —
images, graphics, and text — appear in the Links panel, where you can
track them with greater control than ever before.
Exclusive Creative Cloud Benefits
- Ongoing feature updates: You always have access to new features
as soon as they’re released. Just download the latest whenever you want.
- Sync Settings: Work the way you like on any of your computers —
Mac or PC. Synchronize your workspace settings to Creative Cloud so they
go where you go.
- Behance: Save work directly from Illustrator CC to Behance to
showcase finished projects or share a work in progress. Your Creative
Cloud paid membership comes with the Pro features of Behance, including
ProSite — a fully customizable professional portfolio.
- 20GB of storage on Creative Cloud: Work on files at the office,
from home, or on your tablet. Easily share your audio projects with
clients or colleagues.
- Expert training:Sharpen your skills and master new tools with a
growing library of exclusive video tutorials and inspirational content
from experts at Adobe and leading partners.
- Access to Mac OS and Windows versions:You can install Illustrator
CC on your main computer as well as on one backup.
Other Top Features
- Sophisticated vector drawing tools: Create compelling vector
graphics for print, web, mobile, and video. With precise shape-building
tools, painterly brushes, and advanced path controls, you can experiment
freely with intricate shapes, complex effects, and elegant typography.
- Mercury Performance System: Work with precision, speed, and
rock-solid stability on large, complex files. With native 64-bit support
on Mac OS and Windows, the Adobe Mercury Performance System lets you
access all of your RAM to easily open, save, and export large files and
preview 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.
- Gradients and transparency: Interact with gradients directly on
objects, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colors,
and adjusting opacity. Apply gradients to strokes — along the length,
across the width, or within the stroke itself. Even create gradients on
meshes.
- 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 document’s 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. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results using
simple, intuitive options.
- Pattern creation: Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns.
Experiment freely with different kinds of repeating vector patterns that
can be edited at any time for maximum design flexibility.
System Requirements
Windows
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor (2GHz or faster)
- Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 or Windows 8
- 1GB of RAM (3GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
for 64 bit
- 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space
required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage
devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)
- Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software
activation, membership validation, and access to online services.
Mac OS
- Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
- Mac OS X v10.6.8, v10.7, or v10.8
- 2GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
- 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space
required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a
case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)
- Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software
activation, membership validation, and access to online services.
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