A general overview of the workspace, features, and tools of Illustrator on the iPad.
Welcome to Adobe Illustrator — a clean, modern app for creating your graphic design, business or brand identity including logos, icons, and more on the go.
The workspace is composed of the following:
The toolbar on the left contains tools you’ll use to create and edit content.
The Layers panel in the upper-right is where you can organize, show, hide, and lock content.
The Properties panel in the upper-right shows editable properties for selected content, like position, size, text formatting, and more.
In the Taskbar on the right, you can find functionality for arranging or ordering content, combining shapes — called pathfinders, path editing, and more.
Move around in the document
Two finger pinch zooms in. Spread two fingers apart to zoom out.
Two finger drag pans in the document window.
Drawing and editing
The Selection tool is for moving and transforming artwork and the Direct Selection tool is for selecting and editing the anchor points that control the shape of a path or shape.
There are a series of shape tools for creating different types of shapes.
The touch shortcut is used when drawing and editing to add more functionality to a tool.
Change the fill and stroke color for selected artwork in the toolbar on the left.
The Pencil tool and its smoothing setting are used to create more freeform paths. The Pen tool offers more precision when drawing.
Add and format text
Tap or drag with the Type tool to add placeholder text.
Control basic formatting of selected text in the common actions bar beneath the text.
For more formatting options, like changing the font family, open the Properties panel in the upper-right.
Export and share
Tap Publish and export in the upper-right to save the document in a variety of formats, including native Illustrator (.AI), PNG, and native Photoshop (.PSD)