In the pre-Adobe Illustrator age, graphic design was a tedious, meticulous analog process: it could take a day to set one page of type, and then maybe a temperamental Rapidograph pen would explode ink ...

All the main Adobe software programs and what to use them for.

It’s more that just a free alternative ...

Illustrator on the iPad is Adobe’s only dedicated vector graphics app available for Apple's tablet. When Adobe first launched Photoshop for the iPad last year, some felt it lacked too many features to ...

We eat off it, sleep in it, wear it, sit on it and work with it. When we’re sick it is part of the apparatus of making us well again and it’s impossible to imagine our lives without it. Design matters ...

Illustrator, the mammoth professional vector drawing application by Adobe, now in its 25th year, remains at the top of its class in its latest incarnation, Adobe Illustrator CS6 ($599 direct; $249 to ...

Grunge gives images a fun and artistic look that attracts attention. While Adobe Photoshop has many built-in tools for this effect, creating a grunge look in Illustrator takes more work. To create ...