Adobe Illustrator 2025 29.1 【2026 Release】

Another major quality-of-life improvement is the enhanced Mockup feature. In the past, getting vector art to look realistic on a t-shirt or coffee mug required using Photoshop or third-party plugins.

Illustrator 29.1 builds this directly into the canvas. You can now map vector artwork onto a raster image of a product (like a tote bag or cup), and Illustrator automatically warps the art to match the contours and lighting of the photo. For freelancers and merchandise designers, this feature alone is worth the price of admission. Adobe Illustrator 2025 29.1

The Pencil Tool Smoothing slider has existed for a decade. It merely averaged points. Version 29.1 introduces Neural Smoothing. You can now map vector artwork onto a

In 6 seconds, you get 3 variations of fully scalable, grouped, and colored vector art. It merely averaged points

It wouldn't be a major update without under-the-hood improvements. For those of us working on complex files with thousands of paths, Illustrator 29.1 feels noticeably snappier.