Ceros vs Adobe Illustrator: Which is a better fit?

Savannah: Hi, my name is Savannah. I'm a visual content strategist for an international non-profit called One Hope, and we love Ceros, so I'd definitely give it five stars. So Ceros solved a couple of problems for us. We initially went to it wanting an annual report. So our program before that actually would've just been Adobe for a static digital report. And now it lives online as a live web page, but we also use it for other websites. So with that, our other back-end tool was more of a WordPress tool. So we opted for Ceros largely because we wanted an interactive tool. We wanted our content to be more back and forth with our audience. And so we wanted a digital annual report where people could donate directly through the page. They could engage with videos and non-static content. And so yeah, that was why we wanted a program like this. And Ceros, it superseded our expectations. Ceros is a fairly intuitive platform, but I've also been working in Adobe for a long time. So I do think there's a bit of a learning curve. I think even they recommend 20 hours at least in the platform to kind of master it, know your way around. But they have a ton of educational resources to help users on board. So even if you're not a designer or someone with my background, you can learn it. You just need to put in some hours to get used to it. It's not as quite as easy as Canva, but certainly not as difficult as working from scratch. So I think Ceros opens a lot of doors for people who can't have an in-house developer for whatever reason, you do not need to know code to use the platform. You do not need to have even necessarily design experience to use the platform. They have a ton of templates that you can choose from. So I think this opens opportunity for a lot of people to bring that kind of work in-house and really customize what you're looking for. I just want to recommend putting in the time to really use it for all its worth. There are a lot of functions to it that are a bit, I would say, quiet or not as noticeable. So do the classes, use their resources to really learn the platforms so that you can make the most out of it.

Isabel S.: Hi, I'm Isabel. I work as a portrait artist. I am giving a number five out of five review for Adobe Illustrator. For more reviews like, this click below. Before Illustrator, I was using Paint and it was awful. I am not the best at drawing and I needed help with it. I just felt like, "Oh, my gosh, I'm going to have to spend hours and hours and hours getting better at drawing just to get better at Paint." Then, I discovered Illustrator and all of its quirks and features and greatness. I was like, "Oh, my gosh. I am going to stick with this." With all the problems that I was having with Paint and then the quick things that I needed to make, when I discovered that Adobe Illustrator goes and helps you to create those graphics to look nice, I was like, "Oh, my gosh, this is just a total game changer. It makes my life so much easier." I was just like, "I'm using this for the rest of my life, because this is easy." For me, it was really easy to get started with Adobe Illustrator. I'm really familiar with Photoshop. Illustrator works really similar to Photoshop. It just has a little bit of different tools to help you more purposely with drawing. Photoshop, you end up painting and you play with different levels and different colorations that are in there. You can do those same type of things with Illustrator, it's just Illustrator has really been made to help you with drawing that thing out and getting it to look good, and especially if you're a graphic designer or something like that, it's much better for that than Photoshop is. Yeah, for me, it was easy. There was a small learning curve, but because I already knew Photoshop, it really wasn't too bad. If you're considering Adobe Illustrator and you're doing things like graphic design, a lot of things that are simple to print or that's going to be on the internet, Illustrator is definitely the way to go. It seems to be the industry standard. It's simple to use, especially if you've been used to the Adobe Suite. When you open it up, and if you've been playing with any of the other Adobe programs that are there, it's going to feel familiar. Yes, I would definitely suggest going ahead and getting it over other methods if you're not the greatest illustrator on the planet, because it will definitely help you with all of those things, give you more options than you ever even knew were possible.