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Hey, this video we are going to talk about what illustrator is great at,

what it's kind of mediocre at, but still gets used for

and what it's not good at.

When you maybe look at some of the other, products to go and use.

So the things that it a really good at.

I'm gonna check my list before I get started. Wait there.

Okay.

Hopefully I'll memorize them all.

Okay.

The big ones are things like illustration and drawing.

I think, logo design, branding, illustrator is perfect.

fliers, posters, stationery, stickers, icons,

fashion, patent making organs.

To check the list.

Why? They're all right.

There was posters and sign, sign writing that I didn't say.

Got close, though.

so you get a sense of what illustrator is for.

What it gets used for by lots of people, and you can totally do it,

but it's probably not the right tool for it to say, you know,

is, say, web design and UI design is one of them.

mainly because there are you can do it and you can

there's lots of features in here you can do for that sort of stuff.

Okay.

But there are products like Figma or XD or Invision Studio,

or there's lots of other products that are just more focused on doing it.

You can design them in illustrator, but adding all the interactivity

can't be done here, so it's better to go to those tools.

the other thing that it's probably not good at, that gets used a lot for is,

newsletters and magazines and books.

Okay.

but earlier on I said it's good for newsletters.

It's great for newsletters that are really small. Okay.

not physical size, but more two pages, four pages, maybe eight pages.

The problem with it is illustrator is designed, like under the hood.

I don't know why, but it's designed to do illustration

amazingly quickly and beautifully, and it's great.

But as soon as you add lots of volume to it, like lots of pages,

it starts struggling.

Especially if you start throwing in lots of big,

high quality images or gets tired and slow.

You can do it, but you will eventually go,

okay.

And that is where something like Adobe InDesign, that's what it does.

Okay.

It does a little bit of what an illustrator does, okay.

But it allows you to do multiple pages load.

You know, you can throw InDesign and say, open a 300 page

document in InDesign and go, okay, now you're open.

If you say that illustrator, it kind of curls over dies and steam comes

out of its is like, it just can't do it.

Okay, so and few pages fine in illustrator

lots of pages you need to move to InDesign.

the other big thing

that's in the gang of illustrator, okay, he's got InDesign by his side.

Often you'll be back and forth with those if you're a designer,

a book publisher, or,

those things.

Okay.

on the other side is Photoshop.

Okay. Where does that go?

So Photoshop is for retouching images.

Illustrator.

You can do tiny changes, you can do tweaks and color shifts and

but you can't mask anything. You can't cut anybody out.

That is Photoshop job.

Okay.

So any sort of photo manipulation masking

and cutting gets that in Photoshop.

Illustrator does all the illustration and creating lots of little elements,

okay, icons and buttons and titles and drawings and all sorts of cool stuff.

And then, InDesign is over here for

if it gets published in a larger book.

did that help? Hopefully it helped.

Anyway, that's what illustrator is really good at

and average it and can't do it all through two pages.

Steam.

all right, that is it.

I will see you in the next video. We'll actually open the program. Let's do it.