How To Generate AI Vectors with Adobe Illustrator Text to Vector

You can now easily generate text to vector images directly inside of Adobe Illustrator, and this is how you do it.

Before we get started though, make sure that you’re updated to the latest version of Illustrator. To do this, just open the Adobe Creative Cloud app, and on the left menu here, choose Updates.

If there are any updates available for Illustrator inside of here, go ahead and do that now. As of today, the version you’re going to want to be on is 28. Once you’re updated, let’s go open Illustrator.

The first time you open Illustrator, you’ll get some pop ups explaining the new features that have just been released. We’ll go ahead and start on a blank artboard.

To get the text to vector graphic dialogue box if it’s not up already, go to Window, scroll down, and then you’ll see it inside of here. Choose this, and it will then open the option window.

We’ll go ahead and take a look at an overview of the features here, and then try them out.

At the top, you have the type of graphic you’re wanting to make. Choose this drop down, and you can select between Subject, Scene, Icon, and Pattern. You can use any of these, but by choosing the correct type it will generate better results, so an animal, person, or object, choose subject. Scene is obviously any type of landscape or scene. If you are generating a logo of sorts, the best option is icon, and finally if you’re creating a repeating pattern or a fill on an object, use the pattern type.

Next, you have Match active artboard style. By using this option, Illustrator will try to match the styles of the current artboard that you’re generating on. This is useful if you want to create a coherent graphic.

After that you have the prompt box. This is where you enter in the graphic that you want to create. You can be a specific as you want to get a precise detailed image, or vague and generic to get something more random. This is up to you.

Next, we have a few options here under the prompt box. The first is style picker. With this, before you hit generate you can select a specific element on your artboard for Illustrator to mimic the style from.

The next icon is the sample vectors, so you can take a look at samples of each of the types to get inspiration, and finally settings. Inside of the settings option, you have a slider where you can determine how much detail goes into the vector being generated.

Ok, so now that we have an overview of how this works, let’s create a few samples.

We’ll start with subject as the type, and since my daughter is a huge cat fan, we’ll say a cute cat, big eyes, sticker design. I’ll go ahead and leave everything default after that and then hit generate. Let it run, and then you’ll get back three results. You can then choose the one you like, or you can even drag more than one here onto the artboard.

Now let’s check out the style picker or match active artboard option. We like the cat it generated, but let’s add a ball of yarn. Type the new prompt here, select style picker, and then choose the cat vector we have on our artboard. And after that, we now have a ball of yarn that we can add to our original cat vector.

Next let’s look at scene. In the prompt box, just type whatever you’re looking at generating here, we’ll say for example hot sunny desert, cactus, dunes in the background. Run that and we’ll get back some examples that we can then again choose from.

After scene we have icon. This one I can see being used a lot by someone who creates logos for businesses or a t-shirt designer. I know in the past when I was creating logos for businesses, I would sketch up ideas, show them to the client, vectorize them, and it was a process. Now, you can quickly generate ideas that you can show them and build from there.

Let’s say we have a car dealership that wants a new logo. They want a silhouette of a sports car, with their name underneath. So, I’d prompt, a black silhouette of a sports car, simple design. Run that and we then get some quick ideas we can show the client to then design the rest from.

And finally, we have pattern. With the pattern type you can create repeating patterns that you could use in fabric design, wallpapers, or fills on objects. Another cool idea to use this with would be tattoo fill, say if you wanted to design a themed sleeve for an arm.

Again, we’ll prompt something like, floral design, variety, bright pastel colors, repeating. Run that and you’ll get back a pattern vector that you can use where you need it.

All of this is still in early released beta, so you may have to work with the results a little bit as you’re using text to vector, but so far this has been pretty impressive, and will only get better.

And that’s how you use the new text to vector AI feature built inside of Adobe Illustrator.

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