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Written by Terri Stone on April 22, 2008
I'm curious to know more about people's Illustrator experience. How long have you been using it? Would you describe yourself as comfortable with it? I must admit that although I've had the app for years, I've never been as comfortable in it as I am in, say, Photoshop.
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Illustrator
I've been using it since the beginning 1.0, while I appreciate it's complexity and bells and whistles, I wish they payed more attenction to ease of use.
In truth many years in between I used FreeHand, which would at times surpass Illustrator in features. FreeHand always beat Illustrator in the ease of use dept. The last good version of FreeHand was 9.0 after that they screwed up the interface, in what I assume was an attempt to match Illustrator. In any case if you work in graphics you must use Illustrator, which can be a very frustrating experience. I don't know why but the simple task of selecting a point on a line in a complex graphic can be maddening. In FreeHand click you had it, in Illustrator it may be part of a group or clipping mask or compound path, and determining these things can take for ever and never successfully overcome. I get a lot of graphic from the outside and editing someone elses Illustrator files is mind blowing. To the point where I can't believe there isn't a better easier way that I just don't know about (I'm mostly self taught), but asking other graphics people hasn't helped me either. I certainly would be interested to know if there is anyone out there that "knows" the solution to the selection problems?