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.

Shelby Putnam Tupper is founder and creative director of Shelby Designs Inc., a small-but-mighty, full-service, customer-obsessed design consultancy.

Another year, another major Adobe Illustrator update. Have they finally fixed some long-standing glitches? Do I think the new ...