Use case
Last updated on
17 August 2026
Learn how AI Assistant in Illustrator (Beta) can help analyze your document, make decisions, recommend actions, and execute multi-step production workflows using natural-language prompts.
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What is AI Assistant
AI Assistant is a production-focused assistant that analyzes the open Illustrator document and understands its structure, including layers, artboards, objects, colors, text, and their relationships. It can then reason about the requested outcome, determine the actions required, and help execute multi-step production workflows more efficiently.
You can use AI Assistant for repetitive, structural, and production workflows such as organizing document structure, updating content across multiple objects or artboards, preparing exports, running production checks, and discovering suggested workflows for your document. You can also attach a supported file to provide AI Assistant with additional context for your request. Depending on the file type, AI Assistant can analyze the attached content, extract relevant information, and use it to help complete supported production workflows.
Beyond production tasks, AI Assistant can also generate vector artwork from a text description, recolor existing artwork, and trace raster images into vectors. When a request needs more detail, AI Assistant pauses to ask follow-up questions before making changes. This lets you confirm the outcome matches your intent before the task runs.
The following examples show common tasks you can perform with AI Assistant.
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What it does |
Sample prompt |
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Recolor artwork |
Recolor artwork: Apply a new color treatment or palette to selected artwork while preserving the design structure. |
Apply a sepia color palette to this illustration while keeping the original composition intact. |
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Organize layers and artboards |
Organization: Understand the structure and content of your design to rename layers, group related objects, reorganize document structure, and update artboard names. |
This graphic is too complex in its structure. Can you simplify it without changing the appearance, create appropriate layers, and name the parts so they are easy to identify? |
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Export artwork |
Export: Export artboards or selections in multiple formats and resolutions using specified naming conventions. |
Export each artboard to the folder E:\documents\projects\temp as PNG at 144 ppi. Name the PNGs using the artboard names. |
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Setup |
Document setup: Convert the current artboard into a print-ready document with the requested size, color mode, and resolution. |
Convert this artboard to an A4 CMYK document at 300 dpi. |
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Fix text |
Text cleanup: Find spelling issues in the document and correct them. |
Find and fix spelling issues in all visible text without changing the layout or typography. |
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Make batch edits across multiple artboards |
Batch Production: Duplicate artboards, create size variations, and update content across multiple document versions. |
Duplicate the 'Template' artboard 25 times. Replace the 'Campaign Title' text on each artboard with a new name from the list. Export each as PNG. |
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Run production checks |
Print readiness: Review artwork for production and print readiness, identify issues, and suggest fixes. |
Please help me prepare this file for printing. Change the document color mode from RGB to CMYK and review it for print-readiness issues. |
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Explore workflows |
Discovery: Learn what AI Assistant can do for the current document and discover suggested workflows. |
Analyze this document and recommend workflows that can help improve, organize, review, and prepare it for delivery. |
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Update content across multiple artboards |
Update: Replace text, update fonts, and prepare localized versions of artwork across multiple artboards. |
Create two new artboards using the same existing English layout, one in Spanish and one in German. Use the Helvetica font family. |
While working with AI Assistant, you can keep more than one chat and switch between them as needed, which helps you keep separate tasks organized.
Use Skills for common production tasks
You can run Skills, which are named, reusable actions for common production tasks, including presets and any you create.
What AI Assistant does not currently support
AI Assistant works on the Illustrator document you have open. The following capabilities are not currently available:
- Working across multiple Illustrator documents
- Working across other apps
- Automatically applying brand guidelines across a document
Known limitations
AI Assistant is continuously improving. Be aware of the following limitations when using AI Assistant in Illustrator (Beta):
- Latency on simple tasks: AI Assistant is designed for multi-step production workflows. For simple tasks, performing them manually may be faster.
- Open-ended creative requests: AI Assistant can assist with aesthetic or creative requests, but doesn't review or critique the design.
- Very large or complex documents: Performance may be slower, and tasks may take longer to complete when working with large files that contain many objects, layers, or artboards.
Note
For longer tasks, the AI Assistant may continue working in the background, so changes or responses may not appear immediately. For best results, avoid editing the same objects that the assistant is currently modifying.
Write effective prompts
AI Assistant performs best when your prompts clearly describe the task and expected outcome.
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Prompting tip |
Vague prompt |
Good prompt |
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Describe the task clearly |
Fix my artboards. |
Replace the product name across all artboards, but keep the font, size, color, and position unchanged. |
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Specify what should remain unchanged |
Update the pricing. |
Replace all pricing information, but keep the existing layout, fonts, colors, and artwork unchanged. |
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Ask for a plan before making changes |
Organize my file. |
Organize this file into a clean, production-ready structure. Show me a plan before making changes. |
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Refine prompts when needed |
Retain current design and organize objects by color. |
Keep the existing layer structure, but organize objects by color instead. |
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Correct mistakes and try again |
That's not what I wanted. |
Undo the previous change. Rename the layers based on their contents, but keep the current layer hierarchy. |
Now that you know about AI Assistant, learn how to execute tasks with AI Assistant in Illustrator (Beta).
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