Use case
Last updated on
Nov 10, 2026
Learn how AI Assistant (beta) in Illustrator helps you understand your document, organize artwork, and complete complex production tasks using natural-language prompts.
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What is AI Assistant
AI Assistant is a production-focused assistant that analyzes your open Illustrator document and understands its structure, including layers, artboards, objects, colors, text, and their relationships. Based on your request, it identifies the actions needed and helps you complete multi-step production workflows more efficiently.
You can use AI Assistant for repetitive, structural, and production workflows such as organizing document structure, updating content across multiple objects or artboards, preparing exports, running production checks, and discovering suggested workflows for your document.
You can attach a supported file to provide AI Assistant with additional context for your request. You can attach supported file format that Illustrator supports, as well as MD, XLSX, and CSV files. You can also attach a spreadsheet to create versions of artwork, such as one artboard for each name in a list. AI Assistant can summarize an attached file, such as a brief or a spreadsheet, so you can check its content before you start work.
Beyond production tasks, AI Assistant can also generate vector artwork from a text description, recolor existing artwork, and trace raster images into vectors. When a request needs more detail, AI Assistant pauses to ask follow-up questions before making changes. This lets you confirm the outcome matches your intent before the task runs.
Open AI Assistant
Open a document in Illustrator, then select AI Assistant in the Application Bar at the top of the workspace.
Review how AI Assistant works
Each response includes expandable Assistant steps that show how AI Assistant approaches your task and why. After a response, AI Assistant suggests follow-up prompts, and you can press Tab to accept the suggestion in the prompt field. For longer tasks, AI Assistant keeps working in the background while you continue in Illustrator.
Try common production tasks
The following examples show common tasks you can perform with AI Assistant.
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What it does |
Sample prompt |
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Recolor artwork |
Recolor artwork: Apply a new color treatment or palette to selected artwork while preserving the design structure. |
Apply a sepia color palette to this illustration while keeping the original composition intact. |
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Organize layers and artboards |
Organization: Understand the structure and content of your design to rename layers, group related objects, reorganize document structure, and update artboard names. |
This graphic is too complex in its structure. Can you simplify it without changing the appearance, create appropriate layers, and name the parts so they are easy to identify? |
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Export artwork |
Export: Export artboards or selections in multiple formats and resolutions using specified naming conventions. |
Export each artboard to the folder E:\documents\projects\temp as PNG at 144 ppi. Name the PNGs using the artboard names. |
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Setup |
Document setup: Convert the current artboard into a print-ready document with the requested size, color mode, and resolution. |
Convert this artboard to an A4 CMYK document at 300 dpi. |
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Fix text |
Text cleanup: Find spelling issues in the document and correct them. |
Find and fix spelling issues in all visible text without changing the layout or typography. |
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Make batch edits across multiple artboards |
Batch Production: Duplicate artboards, create size variations, and update content across multiple document versions. |
Duplicate the 'Template' artboard 25 times. Replace the 'Campaign Title' text on each artboard with a new name from the list. Export each as PNG. |
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Run production checks |
Print readiness: Review artwork for production and print readiness, group findings as critical issues, warnings, and passed checks, fix critical issues, or explain any findings. |
Please help me prepare this file for printing. Change the document color mode from RGB to CMYK and review it for print-readiness issues. Run a preflight check on this document. |
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Explore workflows |
Discovery: Learn what AI Assistant can do for the current document and discover suggested workflows. |
Analyze this document and recommend workflows that can help improve, organize, review, and prepare it for delivery. |
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Update content across multiple artboards |
Update: Replace text, update fonts, and prepare localized versions of artwork across multiple artboards. |
Create two new artboards using the same existing English layout, one in Spanish and one in German. Use the Helvetica font family. |
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Summarize a file |
Summary: Read an attached file and describe its content. |
Summarize the attached file. |
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Reuse resources from a file |
Resources: Attach an Illustrator file and extract its colors, brushes, graphic styles, symbols, and character and paragraph styles. |
Extract the colors, brushes, graphic styles, symbols, and character and paragraph styles from the attached file. |
You can run each of these tasks by following the steps to complete production tasks with AI Assistant.
While working with AI Assistant, you can keep more than one chat and switch between them as needed, which helps you keep separate tasks organized. For example, use one chat for a logo exploration and another for a production check.
Use Skills for common production tasks
You can run Skills, which are named, reusable actions that help you complete common production tasks more efficiently. You can run existing Skills or create your own by asking AI Assistant to turn a prompt into a Skill. After a multi-step result, AI Assistant may also suggest saving a multi-step workflow as a Skill for future use.
Write effective prompts
Get better results by clearly describing what you want AI Assistant to do and what you expect the outcome to look like.
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Prompting tip |
Vague prompt |
Good prompt |
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Describe the task clearly |
Fix my artboards. |
Replace the product name across all artboards, but keep the font, size, color, and position unchanged. |
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Specify what should remain unchanged |
Update the pricing. |
Replace all pricing information, but keep the existing layout, fonts, colors, and artwork unchanged. |
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Ask for a plan before making changes |
Organize my file. |
Organize this file into a clean, production-ready structure. Show me a plan before making changes. |
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Refine prompts when needed |
Retain current design and organize objects by color. |
Keep the existing layer structure, but organize objects by color instead. |
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Correct mistakes and try again |
That's not what I wanted. |
Undo the previous change. Rename the layers based on their contents, but keep the current layer hierarchy. |
Now that you know about AI Assistant, learn how to execute tasks with AI Assistant in Illustrator. For more details about credits, limits, supported files, and known limitations, explore the common questions about AI Assistant.
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