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. 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.
