Concise, sourced updates on what changed in AI for Illustration.
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Agent-made vectors now come with sensibly grouped layers and real strokes for line work, and you can attach your own illustrations as a style reference. Here's what that changes, and what Figma hasn't said yet.
Illustration, UI/UX
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The unified Affinity app is now on iPad with Pixel, Vector, Layout and a new Sketch Studio, it opens the same .af files as desktop, and only the Canva AI features cost anything.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration, Photo & Imaging
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Ideogram's first vector model skips the pixels entirely. It generates SVG artwork from a text prompt, or converts an existing image, and the pitch is shapes and colors you can actually edit afterward.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration
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A new Rerun (Thinking) button on V8.2 jobs has the model look for where it missed your prompt before generating again. The same alpha update adds shared folders, so a team can generate into one place.
Illustration, Photo & Imaging
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A quiet Firefly update triples the crop options for GPT Image 2 on the web and in Boards. Small on paper, useful in practice if you generate assets for more than one placement.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration, Brand & Graphic, Web
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Canva has grouped its four pro acquisitions into one connected suite, and the headline Affinity 3.3 update adds a Blend Tool, InDesign file import, JavaScript scripting, and a paid Layer to 3D feature.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration, Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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CorelDRAW's September 2026 update generates editable vector artwork from prompts or existing art, speeds up bitmap tracing, and lets CorelDRAW Web use your own fonts and export DWG and DXF.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration
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A new alpha edit model lets you open any generated image, describe a change in plain language, attach up to four reference images, and see every edit in a session lined up in one place.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration
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A new fast tier of Recraft's image model trades reference-image input and aspect-ratio range for generation times of about 1.4 seconds, at $0.007 an image.
Illustration, Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic