Hi everyone, my name is Luke and I work on the Adobe community team. If you've ever spent time over in r/AdobeIllustrator, there's a good chance we've crossed paths.

I wanted to reach out to the broader graphic design community because I'm always trying to better understand how creative work is evolving. One area I'm particularly interested in right now is collaboration, and what that actually looks like today across different roles, teams, and creative workflows.

I'd love to hear what comes to mind when you think about collaboration in your day-to-day work. Whether you're an in-house designer, freelancer, agency creative, illustrator, production artist, or somewhere else entirely, I'm keen to learn more about how you work with other people and how that's changed over the last few years.

Some quick ones to kick off the discussion:

• Who do you collaborate with most throughout a project?
• Has the way you collaborate changed recently?
• What tools or systems are essential to your workflow?
• Where do you experience the most friction or wasted time?
• Are clients and stakeholders getting involved at different stages than they used to?
• Is there anything you wish creative tools did better to support collaboration?

I really appreciate anyone willing to share their workflow or thoughts.

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here. I know we chat about all things Illustrator all the time, but I will be meeting with our Pro Design team (Illustrator, InDesign, Neo, and XD) this week to discuss plans and strategies for the next year. I have my list of what I see the community asking for, but it's always great to have more data backing up those recommendations.

Whether it's something simple, something major, a better way to collaborate, better user experience? Whatever it is, drop it below.

Appreciate your input as always

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here.

I am hoping to get your thoughts on Illustrators Content Libraries (Swatches, Brushes, Symbols, Graphic Styles, and Gradients).

I'm curious how they're working for you and if you actively use them.

A few questions to get the conversation started:

• Which of these do you use regularly, and which do you almost never touch?
• Are there any that feel outdated or overdue for an overhaul?
• Do you build and save your own libraries, or mostly stick with what's included?
• Is there anything that feels harder than it should be when organizing, searching, sharing, or reusing assets?
• If you could improve just one of these panels, what would you change?

Interested to hear both the pain points, and what you thinks works well. Real workflow examples are always helpful too.

Thanks

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here. Another quick one for ya. I know there is a complex workaround to set a default font in Illustrator, but given the option to make this more accessible, is it something you care about and would actually use?

Hi my name is Luke, and I work at Adobe with the Illustrator team. I thought this might be of interest to this subreddit as we are currently testing an agentic assistant, and if you are already familiar with Illustrator, it would be great to get your input during the private beta stage. If you wanna check it out, there is a survey to fill out here, but let me know if you have any questions. Thanks

Hi everyone, Luke from Adobe again. The team is looking for contributors to the private beta, exploring how assistive AI could handle repetitive tasks and streamline workflows inside Illustrator.

We hear suggestions like (re)naming layers, duplicating art boards, prepping files for export, but we know there are a lot of various and specific workflows out there, that could benefit from an assistive agent.

If you are interested in sharing feedback directly with the team, please fill out this survey to apply.

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here with details about what's new inside the latest version of Illustrator, available now.

Concept to Vector

You can turn your rough sketches and low-res images, into editable vector artwork. With comparisons to Image Trace, which requires high quality inputs and recreates exactly what you feed into it, Concept to Vector uses AI to interpret structure and generate a cleaner starting point for refinement.

You can enter a prompt, choose from suggested prompts or leave it blank.

• When generating without a prompt, if the input is a sketch, the output will be a cleaner, refined version of the sketch, whereas if the input is an image, the output will be a stylized version of the image.
• Using the Line Art sample prompt generates stroke-based artwork in the output.

Adjust the Match Reference Image slider to adhere More to your original input, or Less to add further interpretation.

You also have the option to output raster images.

Full details on HelpX

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Align Center

One click is better than two, especially when you do it countless times a day in your workflow. Align Center is now available in your Align Panel.

Use the Align To: options to Align to Artboard, Align to Selection or Align to Key Object.

Full details on HelpX

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Rewrite Text

With Rewrite, you can Proofread, translate, generate, and rephrase copy to fit text frames without having to jump across apps.

Create copy variations or rephrase selected text, use proofread to check grammar and spelling, translate content into supported languages, or resize text to better fit a text box or layout.

Note

Rewrite workflows don't use generative credits, except Fit text, which uses 1 credit per generation.

Full details on HelpX

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Upload and download project files in Illustrator

Upload and download files in Illustrator Projects using single or bulk actions.

You can upload and download files in Illustrator directly from the Home screen using single or bulk operations. Upload files to organize assets in projects, or download individual files, folders, or multiple items together for offline access and sharing.

Full details on HelpX

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Check generative credits from the Application Bar.

It’s easier to view your available generative credits and track your credit usage for supported genAI features without leaving Illustrator. Located in the top right corner on your Application bar.

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Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here. I wanted to share an update the team has been working on regrading AI-generated Alt Text.

We built the Alt Text feature in InDesign to make accessibility a natural part of your workflow, and since its launch in late January this year, we heard from the community about improvements you wanted to see. These centered around the quality of the generations, and the need for admin control, which is particularly critical for enterprise, regulated or production environments, where every piece of content must be reviewed and approved.

Details below will highlight some of the improvements we are making to address these concerns, now available in the latest InDesign release.

User Control:

• We understand that in many environments, especially corporate and regulated industries, content cannot be introduced into a document without review and approval. For enterprise customers, we are introducing the ability for admins to enable or disable auto-generated alt text via the Admin Console, available starting June 2026.
• For all InDesign users, automatic alt text generation can be turned off in preferences:
  • Windows: Edit > Preferences > Generative AI
  • Mac: InDesign > Preferences > Generative AI

This ensures that users and organizations can choose the level of automation that best fits their workflow.

Transparency:

We have also heard clearly that users want visibility into AI-generated content. Therefore, we added the “Description generated by AI” tag to make it clear what content is AI-generated so it can be validated appropriately. Users also have the option to turn this label off in Preferences.

Quality: Improving quality remains a top priority for us.

• We are upgrading the underlying AI model to GPT 4.1 for more accurate and contextually relevant alt text generations. This update will be available in InDesign 21.4 starting June 2026.
• In addition, users can regenerate alt text for the same image or for the edited image, giving designers more flexibility to refine results to meet their standards.

We know there is always room for improvements and the community’s input is critical to that, so as always please keep your suggestions coming.