(Note that there were no versions 2.0 or 4.0 for the Macintosh-although, the second release for the Mac was titled Illustrator 88-the year of its release. The next Windows version, version 4.0, was widely criticized as being too similar to Illustrator 1.1 instead of the Macintosh 3.0 version, and certainly not the equal of Windows' most popular illustration package CorelDRAW. The first version of Illustrator for Windows, version 2.0, was released in early 1989 and flopped. In the early 1990s, Adobe released versions of Illustrator for Display PostScript licensees NeXT, Digital Equipment Corporation Ultrix, Silicon Graphics IRIX, and Sun Solaris platforms, but they were discontinued due to poor market acceptance. One window would show the work in progress and the other window would show a preview of the work in progress.Īlthough during its first decade Adobe developed Illustrator primarily for Macintosh, it sporadically supported other platforms.
Įarly versions of the software did not support working in preview mode and users needed to have two windows open on their desktop in order to have a live preview of their work. īyte in 1989 listed Illustrator 88 as among the "Distinction" winners of the Byte Awards, stating that with it Adobe had "pulled ahead" of previously industry-dominant competitor Aldus FreeHand. Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1.7, was released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features. Early magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as Communication Arts) referred to the product as "the Adobe Illustrator". Photoshop is primarily geared toward digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. You’ll always be up to date with software that’s constantly improving.History Versions 1–1.6 (Illustrator 88) ĭevelopment of Adobe Illustrator for the Apple Macintosh began in 1985 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of Adobe's in-house font development software and PostScript file format.
The big one, of course, is that perpetual refinement principle. For the average consumer.”)Īdobe, however, points out that rental customers gain vast advantages over the old “you buy it” system.
(“We want you to restart development for Adobe Creative Suite 7 and all future Creative Suites,” it says. A touching but entirely hopeless petition ( j.mp/1aynMtK) has 35,000 signatures so far.
And, indeed, many of them are horrified by the switch. So far, the switch to a rental-only plan may sound like a rotten deal for many creative people, especially small operators on a budget. The company hasn’t decided whether it will ever use numbers again (Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS6), but for now, the name is simply Photoshop CC. Instead, Adobe says that it will regularly slip in new features as soon as they’re ready. There will no longer be a big new version of each Adobe program each year.
There are also discounted first-year teaser rates, student/teacher rates and a 30-day free trial.įinally, Adobe benefits because it’s no longer committed to a difficult, relentless annual release cycle.
The fees may be higher or lower depending on how many programs you rent, whether you already own an existing version and which one, whether you commit to a full year or prefer to rent one month at a time. Or, if you want to use the full Adobe suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere and so on), you’ll pay $600 a year. You have to pay $30 a month, or $240 a year, for the privilege of using the latest Photoshop version, called Photoshop CC. If you ever stop paying, you keep your files but lose the ability to edit them. You can only rent it, for a month or a year at a time. It’s still the only program whose name is a verb.īut now, Photoshop is also the biggest-name software that you can’t actually buy. Yes, it’s still the program that just about every photographer and designer on earth uses to retouch or even reimagine photos. There’s a new reason for Photoshop to be famous.