MASKS
Draw a path. It’s a mask.
Any shape, text or compound path you select in Illustrator becomes a local adjustment — exact to the anchor point. Plus linear, radial, brush, luminance, color range, and AI Subject & Sky.
ILO / NEW · ILO ANIMATION FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
Make your
Illustrator art
move.
Ilo Animation reads your layers and brings them to life — one-click Magic that animates the whole design, 28,864 Lottie-grade animations, 40,431 shapes (3D, characters and more), a real timeline with keyframes, and Lottie, SVG, GIF or video export. Plus Ilo Raw, Color Tools and Retouch for photos, colour and portraits.
PUFFY & CHROME↑ a real animation, exported by Ilo Animation as one small SVG. move your mouse to look around. ↑
00 — THE LINEUP
Four tools. Pixels, vectors,
faces and type.
FOR PHOTOS · OWN WINDOWIlo Raw
A full Camera Raw developer for placed photos and RAW files — masks, cut out, color grading and spot duotones.
- Opens RAW from 1,000+ cameras
- Masks from any Illustrator path
- Background removal to PNG
FOR VECTORS · DOCKED PANELIlo Color Tools
The adjustments you know from Photoshop — applied to the fills, strokes, gradients and text of your vector artwork.
- Curves & Levels on vectors
- Live preview on the artboard
- Artwork stays 100% editable
FOR MOTION · NEWIlo Animation
Animate your Illustrator art right inside Illustrator: one-click Magic, 28,864 professional animations, 40,431 shapes, a timeline with keyframes, Lottie export.
- Magic: the whole design in one click
- 40,431 shapes, 3D and characters
- Lottie · SVG · GIF · video
FOR PORTRAITS · NEWIlo Retouch
One-click portrait retouching for the photos in your layout — blemishes, skin, red eye, eyes and teeth.
- Finds faces and features
- Heals blemishes, keeps texture
- Runs offline on your Mac
Get two or all four in one checkout and save 25% — see the bundles
01 — ILO RAW · THE EDITOR
Every control you know from Camera Raw.
In a window that belongs to Illustrator.
Live histogram & clipping
Local tone mapping · no halos
Color grading wheels
12panels, from Basic to Calibration
60fps GPU preview while you drag
1:1full-resolution zoom & pan
0pixels lost — every edit stays re-editable
02 — ILO RAW · FROM FLAT TO FINISHED
Straight off the sensor,
then through Ilo Raw.
RAW · AS SHOT
ILO RAW
03 — ILO RAW · BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO DESIGN
Things Photoshop can’t do,
because it doesn’t know your artboard.
CUT OUT
Photoshop’s Remove Background, called from Illustrator.
Ilo Raw quietly asks Photoshop for its matte and brings it back as real transparency. Export PNG in one click.
RAW
Place a RAW file. Yes, in Illustrator.
CR3CR2NEFARWRAFDNGRW2ORFPEF3FRIIQX3F+1000 cameras
Camera preview in a blink, full demosaic in the background, re-editable forever.
HARMONIZE
Photos that wear your palette.
Pull every photo toward the document swatches — or the colors of the artwork you selected.
Spot duotones with real plates.
Black (K)PANTONE 2995 C
Two grayscale plates colorized with your spot swatches, set to overprint. Straight to screen print or offset.
LOOKS
Presets rendered on your photo.
Nineteen looks — film, creative, black & white — previewed as thumbnails of the image you’re editing. Hover to try, click to keep, save your own, export any look as a .cube LUT.
VECTORS TOO
One grade for the whole layout.
Select photos and artwork together. Fills, strokes, gradients and every letter of your text take the same look — live, and always reversible.
NON-DESTRUCTIVE
Nothing is ever baked.
Originals and settings travel with the artwork. Select it next week and every slider is exactly where you left it.
04 — ILO COLOR TOOLS
Photoshop adjustments,
for vectors.
Illustrator can recolor artwork, but it has no Curves, no Levels, no Exposure. Color Tools adds them as a docked panel — and applies them to real vector color, live, while you drag.
VECTOR · 7 PATHS · 2 TEXT · 1 GRADIENT
Hue/Saturation
LiveApply
← a working replica of the panel. drag the sliders — every fill, stroke, gradient stop and letter follows →
04 · B — EVERY TOOL, ONE CLICK AWAY
Ten adjustments.
See each one on real artwork.
BEFORE
AFTER
01 / 10
Curves
05 — WHY IT BELONGS IN ILLUSTRATOR
Tone and color for artwork,
without leaving the artboard.
Curves & Levels on paths
Shape the tone of an illustration the way photographers do — RGB and per-channel curves, input and output levels with gamma. Illustrator has nothing like it.
Every kind of color
Fills, strokes, every stop of a gradient and each character of your text — in groups, compound paths and clipping masks. RGB and CMYK documents.
Live on the artboard
Select, move a slider and watch the artwork change. Apply to keep it, Reset to get the exact original colors back, ⌘Z works as usual.
Stays vector
No rasterizing, no effects to expand. Color Tools writes new color values into your objects — the file is as editable as before.
Hundreds of objects at once
Recolor Artwork works color by color. Color Tools moves the whole selection in one gesture — a full icon set, a pattern, an entire poster.
Print Match: CMYK that looks like the screen
Converting to CMYK usually dulls colours and shifts hues. Print Match picks, for every colour, the inks that print closest to what you designed — blues stay blue, oranges stay orange.
Riso Match: real Risograph plates
The best 1–3 inks from the official Riso library for your palette, every colour mixed from overprinted tints, one spot plate per ink — straight from your vectors.
Ten tools, one rail
Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Levels, Exposure, Hue/Saturation, Shift to Color, Temperature/Tint, Color Balance, Invert and Desaturate — plus your saved presets.
ILLUSTRATOR ALONE VS. WITH COLOR TOOLS
Illustrator+ Color Tools
Curves (RGB & per channel)
Levels with gamma
Exposure · Offset · Gamma
Brightness / Contrast
Temperature / Tint
Hue, Saturation & Lightness in one place
Docked panel — no modal dialogs
Saved adjustment presets
RGB → CMYK that keeps the look (Print Match)
Risograph separations from Riso inks (Riso Match)
Color Balance by shadows, midtones, highlights
Invert · Saturate / Desaturate
06 — ILO RETOUCH · NEW
Portrait retouching,
without leaving the layout.
BEFORE
AUTO RETOUCH
Select the photo, press Auto retouch. Ilo Retouch finds the face, eyes, brows and mouth, heals blemishes from matching skin, smooths while keeping texture, evens redness, fixes red eyes and brightens eyes and teeth. Every step stays editable.
- Clean up: acne and red bumps gone in one pass
- Blemish finder + one-click heal brush
- Skin smoothing with a Keep texture control
- Automatic red-eye — only where it’s needed
- All on your computer — photos are never uploaded
06 · B — ILO ANIMATION · NEW
Your Illustrator art,
in motion.
MASK REVEAL · ANIMATED SVG EXPORT
Open a document and your layers are already in the timeline. Pick from 28,864 animations built on real motion-design curves (mask reveals, springs, overshoot), refine them with blocks and keyframes, and export Lottie, animated SVG, GIF or video. Or press Magic and the whole design is choreographed in one click. Add any of 40,431 shapes (3D, characters, nature, UI) and 6,832 Puffy & Chrome looks for your type.
07 — BUY
Pick your tool.
Every plan is the full product.
Secure checkout by Stripe
Key delivered instantly
2 computers per key
72-hour money-back
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08 — QUESTIONS
Good to know.
Which tool do I need?
If you work with photos — placed images, RAW files, cut-outs — get Ilo Raw. If you recolor and tone vector artwork, get Color Tools. Ilo Raw can also grade vectors together with photos, but Color Tools has the dedicated Curves, Levels and Color Balance for vector art. If you retouch portraits in your layouts, add Ilo Retouch; for puffy, chrome or animated lettering, Ilo Animation. Many designers take more than one — bundles save up to 25%.
What does Ilo Retouch do?
It retouches portraits on your artboard: finds faces, removes blemishes, smooths skin while keeping texture, evens redness, fixes red eyes and brightens eyes and teeth — in one click, then every slider is yours. It runs entirely on your computer.
What does Ilo Animation do?
It animates the artwork you made in Illustrator, inside Illustrator. Your layers come in by themselves, you pick from 28,864 animations — mask reveals, springs, loops, 3D flips, text choreography — and fine-tune them on a timeline with keyframes, or press Magic and it animates the whole design for you, element by element. Export Lottie for websites and apps, animated SVG, GIF or video. It also includes 40,431 shapes (3D, characters, nature, interface, celebration) and 6,832 Puffy & Chrome looks for vector type.
Can I get print colors that match my RGB design?
Yes — Print Match in Color Tools 1.2 converts RGB artwork to CMYK by choosing, for every colour, the inks that print closest to what you see, within your ink limit and with greys in black only.
Do I need Photoshop?
No. All four tools run entirely inside Illustrator. If Photoshop is installed, Ilo Raw’s Cut Out can use Photoshop’s Remove Background for the very best edges — it handles that for you in the background.
Which Illustrator versions work?
Illustrator 2023 and newer on macOS and Windows. Ilo Raw and Ilo Retouch open in their own windows from Window › Extensions; Color Tools docks like any Illustrator panel from Window › Extensions › Ilo Color Tools.
Does Color Tools rasterize my artwork?
No. It changes the actual color values of your paths, strokes, gradient stops and text. The result is still normal, editable vector artwork — no effects to expand, nothing flattened.
Does it change my original files?
Never. Linked images stay linked to a developed copy, embedded images keep their original safely, and every setting can be reopened and changed later.
Do my photos get uploaded anywhere?
No. Developing, masks, retouching, face detection and the AI subject detection all run on your computer. The only thing that goes online is the license check.
Can I use it on two computers?
Yes — one key activates two computers. Move it anytime from the menu inside the app.