Powerful and creative plugins from Astute Graphics

As you get more and more comfortable with the tools already offered to you within Illustrator, the inevitable need to ask even more from it will occur. It might be based on a desired look or even a specific printing requirement. Although Adobe has done an excellent job developing Illustrator through the years, there are still areas where a third-party developer can devote a great deal of time and resources to bring even more out of the software. A third-party developer has the benefit of having a more limited focus than Adobe, since Adobe is looking at how everything works within Illustrator and even how it interacts with the additional software titles offered by their company.

There are many plugins out there, but the one that I go to most often and has the most opportunities to extend the capabilities of what Illustrator can do for me is the Astute Graphics (AG) collection (https://astutegraphics.com). The collection offers 21...