Does anyone else have a real problem getting along with Illustrator...

cu3ed · 17 Sep 2011 at 21:37

For some reason, the "logic" part of my brain cannot get along with Illustrator, some things make good sense, some of the tools are very clever, but, for what ever reason, the path drawing tools to me seems the must blundering awful thing to ever use.

Is their some reason im not picking this up..Quark 9 fine, InDesign, fine enough, Photoshop very good at, various other packages etc...Illustrator...frustration brain fart times.

pieplough · 17 Sep 2011 at 22:09

With a tablet or without? Using a mouse I can't get along with it but using a tablet it feels very natural.

cu3ed · 17 Sep 2011 at 22:15

I have both a good Logitech mouse and Wacom tablet..its jsut feels like im missing something lol.

asim18 · 18 Sep 2011 at 02:25

Same. I've managed to self-teach myself Photoshop to a professional level. And because of the incredibly intuative GUIs of InDesign, Premiere Pro/After Effects I can do anything I need to in those applications. Dreamweaver is also great. Even Flash is OK.

But my god Illustrator is just utter utter crap IME. It takes me hours to do even the simplest of things. So you're definitely not alone.

gord · 18 Sep 2011 at 12:56

Get this, our company doesn't have InDesign. So I do our multi-page documents in Illustrator.

Minds.. blown..

UncleBob · 20 Sep 2011 at 00:50

Illustrator is great, but the bezier tool does feel a bit unintuitive at first. I still much prefer it to Freehand 10, despite some clients claiming the latter is the holy grail of vector packages.

Multi-page is Illustrator? IIRC that was new to CS5 so I can imagine how much fun that was in the earlier versions

Illustrator is pretty much the gold standard in packaging, along with PackEdge and ArtPro; I can't imagine why anyone would use it for documentation though.

reflux · 20 Sep 2011 at 00:55

I use Illustrator pretty regularly, but I've never been a fan of it. It feels clumsy and awkward compared with Photoshop.

gord said:
Get this, our company doesn't have InDesign. So I do our multi-page documents in Illustrator.

Minds.. blown..

Damn

FlyingPig · 20 Sep 2011 at 09:35

Same here, I hate Illustrator and for my needs Photoshop does the job.

Craig R · 20 Sep 2011 at 10:38

Love Illustrator. Bezier curves are great once you get the hang of them. Practise makes perfect - look for some tutorials and you'll soon get to grips with them.

Limenote · 20 Sep 2011 at 12:04

as a hardcore photoshop user it takes some getting used to that's for sure, I still go crazy sometimes that even the basic shortcuts are different.

Adnams Drinker · 20 Sep 2011 at 13:48

Personally I've used Illustrator ever since version 5.5 - note 5.5, not CS5.5 - and having used the goddawful Freehand before that, there's no comparison.

I used QuarkXPress for about five years solid and thought it was the bees knees, especially compared to PageMaker, but once I'd tried InDesign version 1 way back in the year 2000, there's no going back.

There's still no better web dev application than Dreamweaver - again, I used to use Adobe GoLive, then we got hold of a demo of Dreamweaver (in those days, still a Macromedia product) and it was streets ahead.

Of all the Adobe apps, the ones I personally can't get on with are Photoshop and Flash ...