Use Adobe Illustrator PRO Version by Adding Astute Graphics Plugins

After a few months of work­ing with Astute Graphics Illustrator plu­g­ins I am, for want of a bet­ter way to con­cise­ly express it, blown away.

There are cer­tain inno­va­tions in vec­tor draw­ing that cre­at­ed a marked delin­eation between what draw­ing was like before their cre­ation and after. For exam­ple, Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh tool; there was life before Gradient Mesh and life after.

Astute Graphics’ Illustrator plu­g­ins are all sim­i­lar lines of before/after demarka­tion. There’s draw­ing with­out VectorScribe, Phantasm, InkScribe, and MirrorMe, and then a world of draw­ing with them.

If you’ve nev­er tried the plu­g­ins you sim­ply can’t imag­ine how fun­da­men­tal­ly they will ease and enhance your vec­tor draw­ing in Adobe Illustrator. You might even say that, with the Astute Graphics plu­g­ins, Adobe Illustrator becomes Adobe Illustrator Pro.

Disclosure: I am not com­pen­sat­ed for this endorse­ment in any way. In fact, I wait­ed to ren­der my assess­ment of the plu­g­ins until after the pub­li­ca­tion of an inter­view arti­cle I wrote on the Astute Graphics blog (here) to remove any appear­ance of impro­pri­ety. Without equiv­o­ca­tion or com­pen­sa­tion, I sin­cere­ly feel the soft­ware real­ly is amazing.