Design & Development Team Date: [Current Date] Subject: Comprehensive overview of Adobe Illustrator versions from 1.0 to the latest release
🗓️ The Early Years: Pure vector mathematics. No layers, no undo history (in the very beginning!), and strictly black & white on tiny screens. 🗓️ The CS Era: The golden age for many. CS2 brought "Live Trace" and "Live Paint," changing how we handled scanned sketches forever. CS6 gave us the modern dark UI and pattern tools. 🗓️ The CC Era: Continuous updates. We got the curvature tool, global editing, and now, Generative AI. adobe illustrator version