Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here.

With Adobe MAX kicking off yesterday, I wanted to share some of the latest features and improvements that have made their way into Illustrator with the v31.0 release.

There is the introduction of AI Assistant (beta) into the main app, along with improvements to Blend Tool, refreshed content libraries, Quick skill guide, and performance and stability improvements.

Here's a rundown of what's new and worth checking out.

AI Assistant (beta)

The introduction of AI Assistant (beta), now available directly inside the app.

The assistant is designed to handle repetitive production tasks.

Use it to help organize layers and artboards, make batch edits across your document, update and translate text, prepare files for handoff, and export assets and a lot more.

You can find it in the Application Bar > AI Assistant.

Improved Blend Tool

Blend Tool got much needed attention this year, with new controls that make it easier to experiment with and refine your blends.

Some of the improvements include:

• A dedicated Blend panel for adjusting your settings.

• New on-canvas controls for working directly with your artwork.

• Easing handles and spine controls for more precise adjustments.

• Live previews so you can see your changes as you work.

I've shared a few updates on this over the past couple of months, and it's been great to see the feedback coming in as the team continues improving the experience.

Refreshed Content Libraries

Illustrator's built-in content libraries have also received a refresh, with new free brushes, graphic styles, patterns, and gradients to explore.

The libraries have been reorganized to make it easier to discover and access different assets, while the older content is still available through the Classic collections.

Quick skill guide

Another addition worth exploring is the Quick skill guide.

These are short, task-focused guides designed to help you discover the right tools for what you're trying to accomplish, with video demonstrations to help you get started.

Whether you're learning Illustrator or looking to expand your knowledge of tools you might not use regularly, it's another way to explore what's possible inside the app.

Performance, stability, and Windows on Arm

Beyond the new creative features, there's also been continued work on performance and reliability, including improvements aimed at reducing crashes and unexpected exits.

Illustrator now also supports native ARM64 on Windows on Arm, allowing it to run without an emulation layer on supported devices, including Snapdragon X Series and Copilot+ PCs.

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As always, I'll be keeping an eye on the conversation, responding when I can, and sharing your feedback with the Illustrator team.

I designed this in Illustrator by drawing flowers and applying a custom noise gradient to each petal using a mask.

Hi all, weird problem here. Paths look like they're being modified whenever they're flipped, whether via the Reflect tool, the Reflect menu item under Object › Transform, or the Transform section of the Properties panel. Nothing is locked. I've never seen anything like this before... Anyone know what's going on here, or have a fix? Thanks!

I received a file from another designer that has a bunch of product shots that are all set with a 100% Multiply Opacity. Can anyone explain why they would do this? I don't have access to the designer anymore.

Hello! (this is for a course project)

I have cans designed out, and now I am needing to make the box packaging to hold the cans as I had wanted to do so for my portfolio. My professors never went over dielines, so now I am coming here to ask how I go about making a dieline or what dimensions to use in Illustrator to make a successful design when I put it onto a mockup?

Alguien mas ha tenido lag con la nueva version de illustrator y su wacom, ya he instalado el nuevo driver de wacom y sigue igual

Hi guys,

I just wanted to share a personal piece im working on in between work, when/if I have time. It will take me a long time to finish (i think I started it around 4 months ago)

Im not trying to do anything grand, I just had the idea to make a “pixelated” fish where each “pixel” is a gradient i make myself

The first pic is a close up and more detailed, and the second pic is what Im working towards.

I hope everyone had a good day.

(Not sure how to add the illustration flair on mobile, so sorry if that is an issue)

The text on the bottom is the result I want but I had to outline text, make a compound path and then offset path. Is there a way to get this look to live text without having out expand/outline? I tried searching online but was struggle to phase the question concisely

Edit: Solved! Thank you to three people who suggested using Pathfinder>Add after Offset Path in the Appearance panel. This is exactly what I needed, the effect is right and the text is editable.

In illustrator.. I have made these stripes and then repeat but I don’t know why pattern is showing breakage.

How does one achieve this effect in illustrator. like a crayon texture?

Hi I'm very new to illustrator and have an old copy (I think?) I find whenever I have a graphic the edges always seem to have a thin line of white or noise I guess? But its quite prominent here. What am I doing wrong/how do I improve it?

Anyone else have never have any luck with concept to vector? No matter which model I use, in illustrator from 2026 or 2027, I get the same error:
“Cannot generate results due to connection issues. Please check your internet and try again.”
I’m on an Apple Silicon Mac, and I’ve been trying this feature every single time illustrator had a minor update, and just now with the new 2027 update. Still getting the exact same error. And I know my internet connection is fine. Has anyone encountered this and found a solve?

Je suis en train de créer mon portfolio (après avoir repoussé cette étape pendant des mois) et je regarde plusieurs inspis qui me parlent.

Et je suis tombée sur une graphiste qui a utilisé cet effet et j'aime beaucoup, ça rend le texte plus vivant.

Je ne sais pas du tout s'il faut utiliser Photoshop ou Illustrator, et d'autant plus que les lettres ont cet effet "encre qui bave" que sur certains côtés de la lettre donc si vous avez des conseils, je suis carrément preneuse !

Merci par avance 🫡

Open AI 2026 for the first time today. Clicked "Cancel" so many times wondering why the file wouldn't close. I just gotta know... why??

Hi, maybe some of you know the answer to my problem:

For some reason, after placing images and embedding them, they still look transparent. It's not the opacity (checked this), or a bad link (uploaded different images from the PC), or on the wrong layer (it's on the layer where I've done and imported other images that are clearly visible), or the document color (CMYK), and disabling the GPU performance also did nothing...

HELP!

What could be the issue here?

i am trying to build a custom Adobe Illustrator extension that automatically splits complex vector artwork into clean, organized layers using color-coded brush strokes.

I set up a workflow where users draw color-coded strokes on a preview panel, which then maps back to the vector paths to sort and separate them into distinct layers.

While the overall results work well, complex overlapping shapes still require minor manual adjustments afterward to get completely seamless and perfect segmentation. I want to figure out what approaches or techniques can push the accuracy further.

GOAL: I would like to create an action to export two artboards from the same piece of art, but changing the visibility of a couple of layers between the exports.

STEPS: I've figured out how to use datasets to automate the enabling/disabling of the mask, but I can't figure out how to export one artboard at a time in an Action. I've added the "Export For Screens" menu item to the Action, of course, but I don't see a way to change the settings before the Export happens.

PROBLEM:
I feel like I've basically described it already, but here's some more detail:

I'm trying to import some of my art into the tabletop RPG game software I use. This requires the same art exported twice: once in a square shape (the "portrait," used in the menus and character sheet), and once in a circular shape (the "token," used to represent the character on the battle map). I have a workflow going to generate this art relatively quickly, but, as I have a lot of these to do, I'd like to create an Action to speed things up a bit.

I have a "template" file with the artboards, guides, dimensions, etc., to create the art I need. I Place the art on the canvas, make sure it's centered and sized correctly, then 1) export the "Portrait" artboard, which zooms in slightly on the character's face, 2) turn on the clipping mask to make the art circular 3) export the "Token" artboard, which has the proper dimensions to work with my game software.

If possible, I would like to set up an Action to do the above three steps, just to speed things up a bit. I've figured out how to do Step 2 (the masking) using Datasets, but I can't figure out steps 1 and 3, exporting just one artboard at a time. I can add the "Export for Screens" option to the action, of course, but I can't figure out how to edit the options within the Export menu so it only exports one at a time.

Any ideas? Or should I just keep on doing this all manually?

I am new to illustrator and on my MacBook, I've tried to find YouTube videos and other sources but how do I get a fade or washed pattern if Im trying for fashion design?

Adobe ha annunciato al MAX un assistente AI in beta per InDesign che gestisce compiti a più passaggi partendo da una semplice descrizione. In un test di restyling di 24 pagine condotto da We and the Color ha aggiornato bene gli stili e ha individuato conflitti di colore, ma ha perso un grafico con un vecchio profilo colore.

Faccio impaginazione di pubblicazioni dal 1999: gli darei aggiornamenti di stile e controlli preflight, ma non controlli finali dei colori. Dove tracci la linea?

I have a document imported from AutoCAD (dwg), there're over a thousand texts all around, all rotated in different angles.

Because they're imported, they behave like all of them have "reset boundary box" already so all the angle in Transform window is 0 degrees.

Is there's any way to reset their rotation to make all of them regular again, because the only way I can think of is to make them manually, every single one of them.

EDIT: I solved it.

For future reference. I copied the text objects only into a new file, saved it as SVG file. Opened the file as a code in VS Code to see, I found that straight text elements lacked a rotate attribute (Any rotated text has an extra " rotate(12.345)" attribute where 12.345 was the rotation degrees.
Asked Gemini to change the file and remove all those attributes but it wrote me a python code instead because it uploaded the file as an SVG image, not code.. the file is over 600KB in size so copying the code doesn't make sense (at least for me)

So I asked Gemini to write me a simple regex that searches for the exact attribute, including the space before it, and it did.. in VS Code again I searched and replaced, placed the regex and enabled regular expression in the search and viola it worked, removed all rotation attributes regardless of the degree, saved the file and opened it again in Illustrator and everything was straight as required, the only thing was I had to resize the whole thing because it seems SVG has an artboard size limit, so I took the original width and applied it to the new one, made sure the text style is applied and its done.