10 very interesting plugins for Adobe Illustrator

There are many possibilities at our fingertips and fully accessible to enrich our work environment and make our work more productive, agile and simple. On countless occasions we have reviewed several very interesting plugins for the Adobe Photoshop application. In this case I would like to offer you a small selection of resources and accessories for the application of Adobe Illustrator. Surely later propose some more. I am aware that there are true wonders swarming the web and that many of you will find them great.

At the moment I leave you with this selection of ten plugins so that you can try them and get the most out of them that you can. Enjoy it!

• Spectrum allows you to considerably expand the information that appears in our interface when developing models or prototypes of a design. This fantastic tool (totally free) will not offer information about the distance that exists between the different elements that make up our design or the size of the fonts present in it, among other things. It will provide us with enviable accuracy and precision. It has a Lite version that is free, although it also has certain limitations.

• Subscribe: It can be extremely useful for drawing and creating circular and curved shapes in a tremendously simple way and with an attractive result. Our process will be more agile, faster and we will be able to relate and fit all the shapes in a simple way using a system of points, tangents and perpendiculars. Is free.

• Free Illustrator script- QR code: This add-on will allow you to generate QR codes from the application. It is a very intuitive script that will provide us with a system to develop this type of codes in perfect vectors to apply and integrate them into our designs with an effective result.

• Free Illustrator Script - Flip.jsx: This tool is focused on creating reflections in our compositions in record time and very easily. It will offer us the possibility of creating vertical, horizontal, diagonal reflections, including a modality with the object of duplication. In the coordinate field you will pick up a reference point based on which a reflection effect will be developed. It is necessary that we always select a reference point of our object to be able to create said reflection.

• Free Illustrator Script - Random Order: It can be extremely useful for creating complex motifs. Its main function is to place the selected objects in a random order from the layer panel of the application. It will save us a lot of time and provide us with high quality vectorized textures. It was developed by Yemz, a Ukrainian developer and also creator of Tormento Plugin, open source just like Free Illustrator Script - Randmon Order.

• Free Lorem Ipsum Generator: Want to check how your design looks with default text or Lorem Ipsum? This plugin is developed with the aim of helping you in the task. Lorem ipsum is the text that is generally used in the graphic design world to offer demos of fonts or design drafts to test a visual design before inserting the final text. It offers customization options and to generate words, phrases or even paragraphs with a simple click and without having to leave the application at any time. It is totally free.

• Ai-> Canvas plug-in:  The free Ai> Canvas plug-in allows Adobe Illustrator to export vector and bitmap illustrations directly to an HTML5 canvas using JavaScript drawing commands. Illustration can be added in such a way that you can control rotation, scale, opacity, and movement across a canvas. In this way, the elements can be used to trigger new animations. Lastly, the exported HTML and JavaScript can be extended and used to other media running on the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

• Layer Exporter: A tremendously useful extension designed to export all layers in various formats such as SVG, PNG or JPG and also generate their corresponding HTML and CSS in just one simple click.

• I? ?: This plugin is tremendously useful to face compositions and illustrations with the Low Poly effect. Generally, this type of effect takes a long time and becomes quite a long task, however, this tool will help us to create triangularized or gemometric surfaces in a few minutes, after creating some lines through points and in a tremendously intuitive, simple procedure. and that will offer us an incredibly good result.

• Vector Write: I am sure that more than one of the features contained in this plugin can serve you in a practical way and that is that the truth is that Illustrator should have implemented it in one of its innumerable updates. I am sure that in the not too distant future this will happen. It is an intelligent tool that anticipates the movements that the user or designer wishes to make when developing and illustrating new forms. Totally recommended and very interesting.