You don't need an expensive Adobe subscription to open Illustrator files. Here's are three free or low-cost alternative ways ...

Open your Photoshop project. If you're using the most recent version of PS, the contextual taskbar should include an option ...

Though you can open this type of file in almost any Adobe application -- including Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat and Flash -- the .ai file type is native to Adobe Illustrator.

I recently received a question from a reader who wanted to know if there was a way to take his Illustrator (.ai) file into Photoshop and still keep it fully editable. The simple answer is yes ...