Features

Input

• Supported file formats: SVG, EPS, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF, AI, HEIC.

Export

• Save your work in JPEG, TIFF, PNG, EPS* or PDF file formats.
• Save vector graphics as SVG and PDF files.
• Export the entire document, a sheet or a selection.
• Set DPI for the exported art.
• It is now possible to share exported graphics to various destinations, including Photos and other supported apps on iOS platform.

Tools

• Use more than 30 tools for selecting, drawing, editing, slicing and typing.
• Select and modify objects: Move, Selection, Lasso, Eyedropper, Scissors, Eraser, Zoom.
• Draw and edit paths: Pen, Convert, Draw (combines Pencil and Brush), Width, Gradient, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Line, Arc.
• The Width tool allows you to use an intuitive variable stroke with no need to define the width of the stroke manually.
• Transform shapes: Free Transform, Symmetrical Distortion, Free Distortion.
• Organize artboards: Sheets.
• Type and edit text: Text (combines text in place and text in box), Text on Path, Text in Shape.
• The Recolor panel lets you easily make large color changes to your artwork.
• Vector shape libraries contain a large number of vector objects.

Workspace

• Use the app with all panels in attached or detached mode in the Mac version.
• Set zoom (up to 6400%).
• Use guides, smart guides, grid and rulers*.
• Use one of the available view modes: Outline Preview, Pixel Preview, Retina Preview.

Sheets

• Store multiple artworks in one document.
• Adjust the orientation and size of any sheet individually.
• Arrange sheets on the canvas.
• Export sheets as the separate documents in supported file formats.
• Move the art with the sheet.

Layers

• Create multiple layers and sublayers.
• Set opacity for each layer.
• Set blending mode: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Lighten, Color Dodge, Color Burn, Soft Light, Hard Light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity.

Path Editing

• Create paths using the Pen and Draw tools.
• Add, remove and arrange the anchor points.
• Convert points to corner points and smooth points.
• Edit paths and shapes that they form using the Knife, Scissors and Eraser tools.

Text Editing

• Edit and format text in place.
• Place text on path and edit it.
• Create text in shapes.
• Change the type, font, color and size of text.
• Align and distribute the text.
• Set text and line spacing.
• Change the size of the type proportionally.
• Numbered and bulleted lists.

Live Effects

• Shadow and Inner Shadow.
• Blur.
• Inner Glow and Outer Glow.

Strokes and Fills

• Add multiple strokes and fills.
• Create unique profiles for the strokes and save them.
• Draw using pressure sensitive tablets.
• Create art with the responsive and natural brushes.
• Adjust the Width, Angle and Roundness of each brush, save it for later use.
• Use Color, Gradient or Image fill for the shapes.
• Set blending mode: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Lighten, Color Dodge, Color Burn, Soft Light, Hard Light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity.
• Use Gradient tool to quickly apply the necessary gradient to selected shapes.
• Use Image Fill to get a shape filled with the needed picture.
• Color Wheel on iOS platform.

Object Editing

• Quickly adjust the size of the objects, their position, rotation angle.
• Shear vertically and horizontally.
• Flip vertically and horizontally.
• Scale object's strokes and effects along with the object.
• Use the three Transform tools for reshaping an object.
• Perform Boolean operations on selected objects: Union, Subtract, Intersect, Exclude and Divide.
• Isolation Mode is the mode where you can edit any object separately from others.

Technologies

• Metal 2.
• 64-bit Architecture.
• GPU Accelerated.
• QuickLook.
• Touch Bar.
• Apple Pencil & Apple Pencil 2.
• Continuity.
• Apple Silicon chips.