Overview
This is the graphics suite reduced to the two applications most people actually open: the vector illustration environment and the raster photo editor. The heavy content packs, the font collections, the stock libraries, the screen capture tool and the web design module are all left out, which brings a multi-gigabyte install down to under a gigabyte without touching the drawing and editing engines themselves.
The vector application is complete. Bezier and B-spline drawing, node editing, shaping and boolean operations, contours, blends, envelopes, perspective, transparency and mesh fills, multi-page documents, master layers, and a colour engine with spot handling and separation preview for print work. Nothing in the toolbox was removed to make the package smaller.
The photo editor carries the same treatment. Layers with blend modes and masks, adjustment and effect filters, raw import through the bundled camera engine, healing and clone tools, and the cutout lab for isolating a subject. The pieces that were dropped are the extras, not the core, which is why this configuration is the one people put on older or smaller machines.
What it does well
Complete vector toolset
Drawing, node editing, shaping, blends, contours, envelopes, mesh fills and multi-page documents with master layers, none of it trimmed.
Photo editor included
Layers, masks, adjustment and effect filters, healing and clone tools, raw import and the subject cutout lab.
Print production
Spot colour handling, separation preview, overprint simulation, bleed setup and press ready PDF export presets.
Small footprint
Under a gigabyte installed, which puts the suite back on machines that could not spare the space for the full package.
Format support
Imports and exports the common vector and raster exchange formats, including the layered formats other design applications write.
Changes in this build
- Install trimmed further by moving the sample documents out of the required set.
- Faster first launch because the font and content indexing pass is much shorter.
- Photo editor raw import updated for more recent camera bodies.
- Fixed a colour profile mismatch on export to press ready PDF.
- Interface scaling corrected on high resolution displays.
What is in the package
- Vector illustration application, 64-bit
- Raster photo editing application
- Print production and separation tools
- Core colour palettes and a small template set
- Multilingual interface files, 9 languages
System requirements
| Processor | Intel or AMD 64-bit, dual core minimum |
| Memory | 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended |
| Graphics | GPU with 2 GB VRAM for the accelerated canvas |
| Storage | 2 GB free |
| Display | 1280 x 720 minimum |
| System | Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit |
Installation
- Extract the archive to a local folder.
- Remove any full install of the same suite to avoid a mixed component set.
- Run setup and choose the interface language.
- Launch the vector application once so the colour palettes register.
- Turn off the updater, which will otherwise try to restore the full package.
Before you start
The stock, font and template libraries are deliberately absent, install the full package if you need them.
Documents made here open in the full suite normally, nothing about the file format changed.
Do not install this over a full suite, one or the other.
Questions about this title
What was removed?
The content packs, font collections, stock libraries, screen capture and web design modules. The drawing and photo engines are untouched.
Is the photo editor included?
Yes, in full.
Can it do print separations?
Yes, separation preview and press ready export are both present.
Will files open in the full suite?
Yes, the document format is identical.
About this listing
This entry was checked on a clean install of Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) before it was published, and it is rechecked whenever the package is rebuilt. The figures on this page come from the site index rather than from the publisher, so the download count is what people here have actually pulled.
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