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I hate illustrator

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
February 1, 2021
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Simply put: The fact it makes erasing anything a mission and a half shows how much of a ripoff this program actually is. The sheer fact that you expect me to pay for a program when a free trial is hair rippingly awful is straight up hubris on Adobe's part. There's no reason I have to search through twenty videos and a hundred tutorials to FIND and GET the erase tool to work properly.

It's pathetic you ask for a monthly rate on any of your programs when your update do everything to RUIN it and make it extremely difficult and impossible for the consumer. Adobe, like many cynical businesses' in the 2000s, love to "mess" with their paying customer base due to the same defiant quality and distain that most companies have for their cilents.

Not asking for anything idiot proof, but I shouldn't have to go through a stress test EVER to make sure I'm getting my money's worth. Needless to say, I have no respect or pride using your products, nor do I have any (at all) respect for your employees.
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Eccentric_Sunflower8723

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I just spent 3 days drawing something, clicked outline and destroyed it all and cant undo, also erasing things is the worst i dont understand why i cant just click a point to start, where to end an it cuts between. The eraser never works and warps curves for some reason, I spend so much time just trying to cut parts with all the mind bending obsticles i the way its insane

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d0nut247

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maybe too late for you... but I keep all my live work on dropbox on machines that I dont have 'time machine' (mac) running - so you always have a back ups to fall back on. they have a free tier that still gives 30 days of history. if you havent closed the broken design yet, 'save as' and you can get back to the last saved version at least?

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Eccentric_Sunflower8723

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Im just pulling my hair out trying to cut lines, its like the designers thought "lets have absolutely no easy or straight forward way to remove lines and have lots of ridiculous buttons that do nothing or dont work because we invented loads of insane rules to stop ppl removing anything". This should be the most basic and simple thing to do, it makes my projects 5 times longer i wont be paying for this anymore im going go back to autocad and just pay more. No point telling me to save now, i just pressed it to see if i need to thin down the lines, thinking i could just undo. It blocks you from undoing this lol. Madness. You get a thousand pop ups teloling you scissors doesnt work here, cant cut here bla bla, and no warning youre aboit to press something that can destroy your entire design with no come back

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Therealalfregeo222

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Same. I have had illustrator for about a month now, and I still can't work out how to make a simple design. It is so hard to learn, and is a bore to use. I am definetly considering going back to canva. The integrated help function does nothing, while the two hour youtube tutorials provide little assistance. While it may be industry standand, I do not have the time or the energy to spend hours and hours learning how to colour things.

creative explorer

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@Therealalfregeo222 @jamese48059965 learning new software can be fun or frustrating. @Therealalfregeo222 you mentioned Canva, well, Adobe also has an app that is comparable and that is called Express. If you want to colour things, you select it, and pick a color from the color picker, swatches, or slider. My students are literally learning how to use Illustrator and are creating logos after 2 afternoons (3 hours each). So, after 6 hours, they can actually create a logo, image trace or ask AI to make one for them.

It's like driving a car. Did you know how to drive a car without getting into a car accident or parallel parking? No, you needed to practice, and now you can probably get into any car and park that baby into a tight spot.

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Therealalfregeo222

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Thanks, I think I was overreacting a little. You are right, all I need is a little practice to get used to the new software. I hope I can make some good designs in the futre.

pixxxelschubser

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Hi @jamese48059965

this is a User-to-User forum.

You cannot address Adobe directly here. Staff members and/or Employees rarely visit the forum. Adobe only provides the platform for exchanging ideas and solving problems.

What problems do you have with Illustrator exactly? Maybe you can be helped.

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