Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud 1-Year Subscription is a one year subscription to Illustrator CC on Adobe's Creative Cloud. Illustrator is a vector graphics and illustration program that lets you draw graphics that scale perfectly from a business card to a billboard. You'll be able to easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns, convert raster images to editable vectors, efficiently edit names in layers, swatches, brushes, artboards, and other panels, use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, and much more. Illustrator graphics can be used for the web, print, video, and mobile devices.
Once you access the cloud, you'll be able to (and required to) install Illustrator on your computer and use it from your desktop. Thereafter, the cloud will allow you to collaborate with colleagues and download free updates. You and any team member with a subscription can keep all files, feedback, fonts, settings, and updates in sync, and the latest features will be available to you the moment they're released.
June 18, 2014 Updates
Live Shapes: Rectangles and Rounded Rectangles
Rectangles now have quickly modifiable corners, including independent radius control. Corner attributes are retained if you scale and rotate your rectangle. Now Illustrator remembers your work - width, height, rotation, corner treatment - so you can return to your original shape.
Anchor Point Enhancements
Fine adjustment of curves is now easier. New anchor point controls allow unequal or different-direction handles to be dragged as you draw to control the smoothness of each segment. You can even change a corner point to smooth without ruining your shape.
Close Paths with Better Control
Close your paths with precision and predictability. As you complete a drawing, you now have more control connecting the end and start points. Reposition your closing point or choose to break the direction lines to adjust the closing curve exactly as you wish.
Pen Tool Preview
See the path you're drawing before you drop your next point. A rubberband-like line from your last anchor point to the tip of the pen appears as you draw. Visualize where the next curve will go as you plot your next point - and spend less time cleaning up paths.
Snap to Pixel, Point, and Grid Updates
When snapping is turned on, your anchor points align perfectly to your choice of pixel, grid, or point. But your anchor handles should not. They're now disengaged from snapping so you can preserve the precision of your curves and achieve fine control while editing.
Windows GPU Acceleration
New GPU acceleration for Windows lets you work faster on Windows 7 or 8 computers. This feature requires an Adobe-certified NVIDIA graphics card with at least 1GB of VRAM.
Typekit Missing Fonts Workflow
When you open a document, missing fonts are now automatically replaced. Illustrator CC searches the Typekit desktop font library and if the missing font is available it will sync through Creative Cloud with just a click.
Additional Features
Also includes: improvements to the Missing Fonts dialog and enhancements to text-related layout and typing features.
Previous Updates
Touch Type Tool
Characters can now be manipulated like individual objects. Experiment with moving, scaling, and rotating, knowing you can change the font or edit at any time. And you can now use multitouch devices as well as a mouse or stylus.
Images in Brushes
Paint with a brush made from a photo. Art, Pattern, and Scatter brushes can contain raster images, so you can create complex organic designs quickly - with simple brush strokes. As with all Illustrator brushes, your strokes can be reshaped and modified at will.
Font Search
Find the perfect font fast. In the Character panel, type a style such as "bold" or "italic," a font family, or any other part of a font name. You'll get a filtered view that lets you see just the fonts that match your criteria.
Multiple-File Place
Import multiple files into your Illustrator layout at the same time and with new control. Now you can define the location and scale of your files -- images, graphics, and text -- and use new thumbnail views to see where each file will go and how big it will be.
CSS Extraction
Hand-coding web elements such as icons and patterns can be frustrating. Now, create websites faster by letting Illustrator generate CSS code for you, even for a complete logo that includes gradients. Copy and paste the code right into your web editor.
Sync Colors
Capture color themes out in the world with the Adobe Kuler iPhone app. Share your themes and explore thousands of others available on the Kuler website. Sync your favorite themes, and they'll be accessible immediately in Illustrator.
Area and Point Type Conversion
Instantly switch between area type and point type. Text object conversion is now instantaneous so you can design freely in your text layouts. And you can work just as easily with imported type, switching formats at any time.
Auto Corners for Pattern Brushes
Get the corners you want without extra steps. Create pattern brushes swiftly with auto-generated corners that perfectly match the rest of the stroke. No need to tediously create special corners for your sharp angles.
On-Art Free Transform
Get hands-on with the power of the Free Transform tool. Move, scale, and rotate objects directly using a touchscreen device. Or use a mouse or other pointer right on the artboard to transform objects in a more immediate and intuitive way.
Behance Integration
Save work directly from Illustrator CC to Behance to showcase finished projects or share a work in progress. As you perfect your work and upload new versions, get immediate feedback from around the world.
Sync Settings
Work the way you like on any of your computers -- Mac or PC. Synchronize your workspace settings to Creative Cloud -- including Illustrator preferences, presets, brushes, and libraries -- so they're available wherever you can access the cloud.
Faster Type Performance
Work faster with type, even in your most complicated, type-intensive designs. Text that wraps around objects and type that is set in multiple connected text frames now refreshes quickly when you make a change.
File Packaging
File packaging automatically gathers and saves the necessary fonts, linked graphics, and a package report into a single folder. Efficiently hand off Illustrator files to production or keep your working files organized by packaging up your project.
Unembedded Images
Easily unembed images that have been placed and embedded in an Illustrator file. You can quickly make images available for editing or extract files embedded in artwork you received from someone else. Links to the image files are created automatically.
Expanded Links Panel Options
Get more complete information about any placed file in the Links panel. All of your placed elements -- images, graphics, and text -- appear in the Links panel, where you can track them with greater control than ever before.
General Features
Mercury Performance System
Work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files due to native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows with RAM and overall performance optimization.
Pattern Creation
Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with different types of repeating patterns that can be edited at any time for maximum design flexibility.
Image Trace
Convert raster images to editable vectors with a completely new tracing engine. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable color results without using complex controls.
Efficient, Flexible Interface
Take fewer steps to accomplish daily tasks in a new, streamlined interface. Enjoy inline editing of layer names, precise color sampling, and user interface brightness that's smoothly adjustable to match other Adobe tools.
Gradients on Strokes
Apply gradients to your strokes - along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself - all with complete control over gradient placement and opacity.
Inline Editing in Panels
Efficiently edit names in layers, swatches, brushes, artboards, and other panels directly in the panels themselves without using intermediate dialog boxes
Gaussian Blur Enhancement
See that Gaussian Blur and effects such as Drop Shadows and Glows are applied significantly faster than before. To improve accuracy, preview directly on the artboard rather than in a dialog box.
Color Panel Enhancements
Sample colors faster and more precisely using an expandable color spectrum in the Color panel. And now, copy and paste hex values into other applications more quickly.
Transform Panel Enhancements
Quickly access the popular Scale Strokes and Effects option, thanks to its new availability in the Transform panel.
Type Panel Improvements
Use arrow keys to change fonts in context for selected text. Glyphs for caps, superscripts, and more can now be accessed in one place - from the Character panel.
Dockable Hidden Tools
Tear off and dock previously hidden tools, such as the Shape and Pen tools. Dock tools horizontally or vertically for a more efficient workspace.
Workspaces with Rooms
Move fluidly from workspace to workspace with support for rooms. Achieve consistency across your work areas and maintain layout changes until you actively reset them.
Control Panel Enhancements
Quickly find what you need in a more efficient Control panel, now with consistency across options, anchor point controls, clipping masks, envelope distortions, and more.
Transparency Panel Improvements
Create and work with opacity masks more easily, thanks to the new Make Mask/Release button that now displays the masking functionality in the Transparency panel.
True White Canvas Color
Set your Illustrator workspace canvas to white for fast color sampling when you need to quickly grab a pure white.
Sophisticated Vector Drawing Tools
Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls.
Integration with Other Adobe Solutions
Move projects smoothly from design to print or digital output, thanks to tight integration with industry-leading Adobe software, such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Acrobat, and more.
Multiple Artboards
Organize and view up to 100 artboards of varying sizes, overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print independently or together.
Crisp Graphics & Text for Web and Mobile
Create and align vector objects precisely on the file's pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.
Perspective Drawing
Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.
In-Panel Appearance Editing
Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke, or effects panels.
Industry-Standard Graphic File Formats
Work with almost any type of graphic file - including PDF, EPS, FXG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, SVG, DWG, DXF, and more.
Adobe PDF File Creation Tools
Create secure, multi-page, graphic-rich PDF files with Illustrator layers retained. Share files confidently with service providers knowing that Illustrator supports PDF/X standards.