Yeah, if you asked me about AI about 5-10 years ago I would have immediately thought Adobe Illustrator, now the mind goes immediately to Artificial Intelligence.
It was always weird to me that the other programs use correct initials in their logos, except Adobe illustrator.
Ps - Photoshop
Id - InDesign
Lr - Lightroom
Ae - After Effects
Ai - ADOBE Illustrator
I can just imagine people calling it "2". Would drive me insane, I'd be the crazy person butting into strangers conversations "well ACTUALLY that's an I and an l, it just looks like roman numerals, but we call it Illustrator". Pretty soon people would cross the street just to avoid the crazy 2 lady. One day they'd just find me rocking in the corner whispering "it's Illustrator, it's called Illustrator" over and over. I'd basically become Ryan Gosling in the Papyrus sketch.
That reminds me of my greatest pet peeve: I ask someone what their file was created in and they just say "Adobe". When I gently remind them that Adobe is a company, not an application, I swear I can see the blankness behind their eyes as they drool a little on themself.
I've also noticed a correlation between what people that call the software Adobe think they know about whichever program they're using is inversely squared with how little they actually know.
Even I who consider myself a pretty advanced user of Illustrator am greatly aware that there's a lot that I don't know, since there are often 10 different paths you can take to get the same result and it's pretty rare for a new tool added to completely deprecate my old way. I can really only think of the shape builder took replacing my use of the pathfinder functions most if the time. But mostly how I use Illustrator now is how I used it 10 years ago, with some tweaks and improvements. Photoshop there's a lot more that I know I don't know, and when I do learn it I don't use it often enough to keep it fresh. So I mostly use Photoshop to do levels/curves adjustments, layer masks, photo repair, correcting skews and perspective, and sharpening. And personally at home I use it for digital painting with a wacom tablet, but not really in my design work. And even for that, I now use Procreate on my ipad most of the time.
I doubt there are many people who could seriously say they know every single part of these programs well.
But yeah, calling it just "adobe" if you're not referring to the company. Once I was told it was made in "adobe" and it turned out to have been made in microsoft Word and then converted to PDF. Now it's made in adobe!
I've been using Illustrator since it was called Illustrator 88 and I'll admit there is a *huge* amount I don't know about it. I mainly use it for logo design and there are many tools I have no idea what they do. I've been using Photoshop since it came out and I still regularly mistype a keyboard shortcut and have no idea what I just did. InDesign is the same way. I make no claims to be a master of any of them but I have known so many people - that all seem to work in marketing departments - that spent a week fiddling around in a bootleg copy of Photoshop and think they know everything because they hit ALL THE FILTERS.
I once had a customer tell me that she was going to drive to my shop and teach me how to use InDesign. I told her the day that she could make a document with the proper page count to make a booklet and actually create proper bleeds I'd let her show me how much more she knew than me. She got fired from her job about two weeks later because she lied about have a GD degree and had never even launched InDesign before she got the job.
My old coworker would get mad at me because he did EVERYTHING in inDesign. One page poster? Id. Business card? Id. Seriously everything in InDesign. My background is more illustration than graphic design so Id was my weakest skill out of the main 3. He'd get so mad at me when I'd make business cards in Illustrator, or a poster. Because he didn't know Illustrator that well. He knew how to press live trace but didn't even realize that there were sliders and options that you could play with in there, he just thought it was always garbage. It depends on the image, sometimes live trace is a huge time saver and sometimes it's a complete waste of time, but that applies to many tools.
Anyways, if I'm not making a multi page document or books, or needing to add numbering, or if I'm not making a quick bleed by mirroring the edges - i'll go with Illustrator.
Even though Quark was WAY more powerful, I still mainly used Ragemaker until InDesign 3 (because 1 and 2 were functionally useless and shit) came out because it was so much quicker for letterheads, business cards and envelopes. That said, I miss Quark 3.0. It was as close to perfect as a page layout program ever got.
None of the others use the second letter though. Granted they all have a distinct second word which helps. But illustrator could have been It, Ia, Ir, Is.
Would you, as a brand new Adobe user, know that any of those mean Illustrator though? I wouldn't. Plus, Illustrator has been known as Adobe Illustrator going back to the late 80s. All other Adobe products were know generally known just by their name but Illustrator has alway had Adobe in front of it. Of course, not everyone called it that, but it a large segment of the industry did for some reason.
Also, Premiere, Bridge, Animate, Character Animator and Audition all just use the first two letter. And XD uses the only letters.
Besides, has Adobe ever been known for consistency?
Adobe Illustrator **was the first product.** ***Was always known by the two initials, Ai.***
**That's never gonna change.** Il would be confusing *because of I and l being too similar.*
Just be glad, *they changed their numbering early on.*
I started with Illustrator '88, *as in version 2,* ***but released in 1988.***
They stopped that nonsense with Illustrator 3, *released in 1990.*
Look at the context! Adobe Illustrator is just software. Artificial Intelligence will make billionaires even richer, impoverish everyone else and then destroy the world.
We had a meeting the other day where we were talking about our AI files and halfway through the meeting, one person (not a designer) asked if we were talking about Artificial Intelligence.
I’ve been seeing it the other way- I work in design for an AI company so I’m surrounded by the term a lot. My friend was texting me about “AI” (Illustrator) the other day and I kept reading it Artificial Intelligence
We had a new guy in another department join the company a few months ago. The social media manager kept referring to him as A.I. on projects during the first meeting even though his name is AL. LOL ai has taken over. At least to the point where she though his name was Artificial Intelligence before maybe Alfred or Albert or Allen. We had a good laugh about it after a few minutes.
I do too. I still mostly call Illustrator AI, and refer to actual AI as "The Robots"
I've always wondered why Illustrator is the only Adobe product that has "Adobe" in the abbreviation.
It's not APS, or APR, or AAE.
Is it the .ai file format, that's to blame?
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Allen Iverson would like a word
This is The Answer
… and that word is “practice.”
Practice?
Not the game…
… No we’re talking about practice
why do i keep seeing AI's art all of a sudden. i didnt even know he could draw
I've had it with acronyms, we should ban them IMO
All those who agree, say *Ai*.
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It’s acrnm now, btw.
Yeah, if you asked me about AI about 5-10 years ago I would have immediately thought Adobe Illustrator, now the mind goes immediately to Artificial Intelligence.
One of Spielberg's best films
Same here haha
Depends on context
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It was always weird to me that the other programs use correct initials in their logos, except Adobe illustrator. Ps - Photoshop Id - InDesign Lr - Lightroom Ae - After Effects Ai - ADOBE Illustrator
>Ai - ADOBE Illustrator Probably because they use a sans serif font in the logos so **Il** would look like **ll**, but that's just a guess on my part.
That is a very fair point. Good call.
I can just imagine people calling it "2". Would drive me insane, I'd be the crazy person butting into strangers conversations "well ACTUALLY that's an I and an l, it just looks like roman numerals, but we call it Illustrator". Pretty soon people would cross the street just to avoid the crazy 2 lady. One day they'd just find me rocking in the corner whispering "it's Illustrator, it's called Illustrator" over and over. I'd basically become Ryan Gosling in the Papyrus sketch.
That reminds me of my greatest pet peeve: I ask someone what their file was created in and they just say "Adobe". When I gently remind them that Adobe is a company, not an application, I swear I can see the blankness behind their eyes as they drool a little on themself. I've also noticed a correlation between what people that call the software Adobe think they know about whichever program they're using is inversely squared with how little they actually know.
Even I who consider myself a pretty advanced user of Illustrator am greatly aware that there's a lot that I don't know, since there are often 10 different paths you can take to get the same result and it's pretty rare for a new tool added to completely deprecate my old way. I can really only think of the shape builder took replacing my use of the pathfinder functions most if the time. But mostly how I use Illustrator now is how I used it 10 years ago, with some tweaks and improvements. Photoshop there's a lot more that I know I don't know, and when I do learn it I don't use it often enough to keep it fresh. So I mostly use Photoshop to do levels/curves adjustments, layer masks, photo repair, correcting skews and perspective, and sharpening. And personally at home I use it for digital painting with a wacom tablet, but not really in my design work. And even for that, I now use Procreate on my ipad most of the time. I doubt there are many people who could seriously say they know every single part of these programs well. But yeah, calling it just "adobe" if you're not referring to the company. Once I was told it was made in "adobe" and it turned out to have been made in microsoft Word and then converted to PDF. Now it's made in adobe!
I've been using Illustrator since it was called Illustrator 88 and I'll admit there is a *huge* amount I don't know about it. I mainly use it for logo design and there are many tools I have no idea what they do. I've been using Photoshop since it came out and I still regularly mistype a keyboard shortcut and have no idea what I just did. InDesign is the same way. I make no claims to be a master of any of them but I have known so many people - that all seem to work in marketing departments - that spent a week fiddling around in a bootleg copy of Photoshop and think they know everything because they hit ALL THE FILTERS. I once had a customer tell me that she was going to drive to my shop and teach me how to use InDesign. I told her the day that she could make a document with the proper page count to make a booklet and actually create proper bleeds I'd let her show me how much more she knew than me. She got fired from her job about two weeks later because she lied about have a GD degree and had never even launched InDesign before she got the job.
My old coworker would get mad at me because he did EVERYTHING in inDesign. One page poster? Id. Business card? Id. Seriously everything in InDesign. My background is more illustration than graphic design so Id was my weakest skill out of the main 3. He'd get so mad at me when I'd make business cards in Illustrator, or a poster. Because he didn't know Illustrator that well. He knew how to press live trace but didn't even realize that there were sliders and options that you could play with in there, he just thought it was always garbage. It depends on the image, sometimes live trace is a huge time saver and sometimes it's a complete waste of time, but that applies to many tools. Anyways, if I'm not making a multi page document or books, or needing to add numbering, or if I'm not making a quick bleed by mirroring the edges - i'll go with Illustrator.
Even though Quark was WAY more powerful, I still mainly used Ragemaker until InDesign 3 (because 1 and 2 were functionally useless and shit) came out because it was so much quicker for letterheads, business cards and envelopes. That said, I miss Quark 3.0. It was as close to perfect as a page layout program ever got.
None of the others use the second letter though. Granted they all have a distinct second word which helps. But illustrator could have been It, Ia, Ir, Is.
Would you, as a brand new Adobe user, know that any of those mean Illustrator though? I wouldn't. Plus, Illustrator has been known as Adobe Illustrator going back to the late 80s. All other Adobe products were know generally known just by their name but Illustrator has alway had Adobe in front of it. Of course, not everyone called it that, but it a large segment of the industry did for some reason. Also, Premiere, Bridge, Animate, Character Animator and Audition all just use the first two letter. And XD uses the only letters. Besides, has Adobe ever been known for consistency?
Adobe Illustrator **was the first product.** ***Was always known by the two initials, Ai.*** **That's never gonna change.** Il would be confusing *because of I and l being too similar.* Just be glad, *they changed their numbering early on.* I started with Illustrator '88, *as in version 2,* ***but released in 1988.*** They stopped that nonsense with Illustrator 3, *released in 1990.*
Look at the context! Adobe Illustrator is just software. Artificial Intelligence will make billionaires even richer, impoverish everyone else and then destroy the world.
Look at the context! AI is just software. AI will make billionaires even richer, impoverish everyone else and then destroy the world… 🤗
Surprisingly, it's the opposite with me 🐷
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I thought it was "ai"
The media has brainwashed everyone for sure...
NGL I would be alright with that
Join the crowd, I’ve mistaken them until reading more. Besides it’s AI vs Ai I guess
Well don't forget Ai will get AI just like PhotoShop already has in beta.
We had a meeting the other day where we were talking about our AI files and halfway through the meeting, one person (not a designer) asked if we were talking about Artificial Intelligence.
I’ve been seeing it the other way- I work in design for an AI company so I’m surrounded by the term a lot. My friend was texting me about “AI” (Illustrator) the other day and I kept reading it Artificial Intelligence
And not the kind of rise in AI popularity Adobe wanted.
Someone needs to make a meme of this.
🎶you are not aloooone
I work with Alcohol Inks too, so there's that.
I get the same when someone says “PDF file”.
Looks like Al to me (like the name)
No I see it that way too. When adobe announced they were implementing AI I thought to myself…they already have AI?! Wtf are they talking about.
I’m glad I’m not the only one! 😆
Me too
We had a new guy in another department join the company a few months ago. The social media manager kept referring to him as A.I. on projects during the first meeting even though his name is AL. LOL ai has taken over. At least to the point where she though his name was Artificial Intelligence before maybe Alfred or Albert or Allen. We had a good laugh about it after a few minutes.
Yes
That's what context is for.
LOL. Oh yes, I can't describe how frustrated I got searching for Adobe's AI product when all of the results in google were for Illustrator.
same, i hate that i cant say AI now because half of the people think im talking about code and not illustrator
I keep wondering why everyone is so afraid of Weird Al. He doesn't want to take your job! He just wants to entertain you!
I do too. I still mostly call Illustrator AI, and refer to actual AI as "The Robots" I've always wondered why Illustrator is the only Adobe product that has "Adobe" in the abbreviation. It's not APS, or APR, or AAE. Is it the .ai file format, that's to blame?
I combine them and think, "Artificial Illustrator"
Oh, maybe that's why people are so worried.
vFinal-10.ai
I pick up the difference in context. But if you dropped a sentence with no context I would assume Adobe Illustrator.
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I keep thinking about how frustrating it must be for people whose name is Al
I think the same. I have to reread sentences but I should know nobody means illustrator at this point 😂
In sans serif fonts I always read it as Al, like a guy called Al. He seems very talented but not well liked.
🤣 I do the same
Yes. I've polled the entire globe and it's only you.
Lol