Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Poseable figures to aid drawing
Have a set of virtual human figures - either stick people or in the style of wooden artists’ figures - that can be manipulated into whatever pose you need, then turned into a template layer so you can draw your character over them. Thus helping with poses and dimensions. This would be extremely useful for users who are not trained illustrators.
2 votes -
NEW issue re: knocking out text.
I've recently run into issues with knocking out text that I've never run into before. Certain letters aren't knocking out completely. Please see the attached and notice how the tops of the letter "T" on the left side of the box aren't completely cut out.
1 vote -
Screen recording / timelapse for showing work progress or tutorial steps
Wondering if you guys could incorporate a timelapse tool inside the app to record the artwork being done?
26 votes -
Freeform gradient live update option
While live update is a nice thing to have (we still wait until you make all draggable art live updated), it's still not very fast.
Please make an option to turn off live update for freeform gradients, so a fill would update only when you release fill points.3 votes -
Image Placeholder function like in InDesign
Image Placeholder function like in InDesign
8 votes -
Magic Wand Tolerance should remember previous settings
Why does the Magic Wand tolerance settings reset whenever I open a new document? It makes much more sense to have the option to either set a default tolerance for the Magic Wand so it will always stay the same, or have illustrator remember the last settings used every time it is changed.
59 votes -
Blur object background
I'd like to see a blur option where objects behind an object appear blurred such as in the attachment. This is something that, I believe, can be achieved in CSS so it would be good to have the ability to use such an effect in Illustrator.
34 votes -
Anchor point adjusting with a constrain
When adjusting the length of a path by dragging an anchor point that's set at ANY angle, not just 90 or 45, hold shift + ctrl (or something) to keep it locked at whatever angle it's already at, instead of it going all over the place. Just keep the angle locked and be able to lengthen or shorten the path with ease!!
8 votes -
Illustrator icon
I don't know if it annoys anyone else but it drives me crazy the Photoshop icon has rounded corners and the Illustrator icon has sharp corners. Why aren't all the Adobe icons either rounded or sharp, just be consistent!
2 votes -
We need custom font filters / tags / folders
We have Favorites in Font Family drop-down list, but that's not enough. Allow us to create our own custom filters / tags / folders and manage them.
46 votesThis is an area where many teams at Adobe are exploring ways to make it easier for users to discover and use fonts. Stay tuned.
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Save AI and PDF files in the background
With the latest version of Illustrator CC 2020, we have a feature to save the AI document in the background but there is no way to save the document in the background via script.
Could you please add the same feature for scripting as well.?
4 votes -
Selection tool
You can improve Illustrator by making the selection tool workable. As long as I use the rules in the document the selection starts to run very bad.
What an useful software.1 vote -
The Graphic Styles Panel needs to have Global and Local panels to allow persistent styles across Illustrator
We create a lot of vector elements and having to change the fill and stroke every time is painful. No fill/No stroke as the default would be MUCH better. Why it's a white fill and black stroke is beyond me.
2 votes -
Separating Swatches/Color for Objects and Tools?
Insanely enough that Illustrator still not able to distinct in betweet color swatches for selected objects/paths and swatches for tools (Brushes, Live Paint, Paint Bucket, etc.) are you nuts guys?
3 votes -
Forced column break
Can we get some decent text handling features that mimic at least fundamental options such as column breaks and a table feature within Illustrator? It's been 30 years now can't you get this done for once and for all?
14 votes -
not grayscale color as default, or set other color setting as a default
I know that you can change the color mode in color window. But it's really pain in the *ss to do it every time I create a new document.
and the idea setting grayscale as a default for every document with every color mode is ridicolous . (why Illustrator not changing it since it's way too inconvinient)
Idk the history of Illustrator etc. and I won't be bothered by it, I just want to have an option to change the default color setting. that's it.2 votes -
Adobe Libraries — Point/Direct to the ACTUAL original file to edit
The more I use libraries, the more I like it! However, instead of creating a "virtual" library of duplicated files, maybe store/use the ACTUAL original file so as to reduce loads of duplicated files, confusion as to the "latest" version(s) created and a crazy file naming system.
Right now this is what it does:
Actual Original File: SSRLogoRGB.ai
Clicking on "Edit Original" in any Adobe program: SSRLogoRGB_cf14017d-6564-4298-9f8f-d800bd2b4a91.ai1 vote -
A 3D presentation of layers and of artboards would deconstruct the fusion of all those into one 2D screen. Gaming software does iit.
A 3D presentation of various containers (artboards, layers, groups) would show the composition of the various containers into what is currently a 2D screen. Gaming software does it.
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Option for object size to take priority over corner radius
When resizing an object, corner radius should be automatically reduced to accommodate the new size rather than blocking the change until you manually reduce the corner radius
(toggle in the options?)1 voteThere is an option to toggle this behavior, in Preferences > General > Scale Corners. You can also tick it in the Transform panel.
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Auto convert from ft. to in. missing from cc2019
I added my forum to make sure it wasn't a setting.
There was a feature in cc2019 that allowed me to convert ft. to in. automatically in illustrator. This made my workflow a lot easier because I didn't have to think about the conversion it just did it for me automatically.
I'm not sure why this was removed in cc2020, but can we get it back please???
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/automatic-conversion-from-ft-to-in/m-p/10783734#M157281
3 votes
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