One written tutorial published by Adobe about making mock-up images of products in Photoshop is more than 900 words long. A new update to Adobe Illustrator now makes the task as easy as drag and drop.

After years of incremental generational improvements, Adobe apps have seen a sudden seismic shift in updates, as they attempt to keep pace with the universal proliferation of artificial intelligence.

Illustrator is one of Adobe's two most recognizable products, alongside its image-editing cousin, Adobe Photoshop. While Photoshop may be the more popular program, Illustrator actually came first, ...