Adobe Illustrator Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is Adobe Illustrator in simple words?

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Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard design app that lets you capture your creative vision with shapes, color, effects, and typography. Work across desktop and mobile devices and quickly create beautiful designs that can go anywhere—print, web and apps, video and animations, and more.

Q2. What is the main purpose of Adobe Illustrator?

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Adobe Illustrator is used to create a variety of digital and printed images, including cartoons, charts, diagrams, graphs, logos, and illustrations. Illustrator allows a user to import a photograph and use it as a guide to trace an object in the photograph.

Q3. What is the most important tool in Adobe Illustrator?

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The most powerful drawing tool found in Illustrator is the Pen tool. With the Pen tool, you can create and precisely edit anchor points to make paths.

Q4. What is the difference between Photoshop and Illustrator?

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Q5. What are the features of Adobe Illustrator?

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• Activity Tracking.
• Application Management.
• CAD Tools.
• Collaboration Tools.
• Content Library.
• Content Management.
• Data Import/Export.
• Design Management.

Q6. Explain what is Rasterize?

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Rasterize is an effect that transforms vector work into rastered images. Often used to make artwork for import into another program.

Q7. Explain what does the Pucker and Bloat tool does?

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Pucker and Bloat tool create the distortion effect that converts an object by curving its edges towards the Center or pushing them away from the Center (Bloat) all the while maintaining the anchor points in position.

Q8. List out some useful plugins in Illustrator?

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• VectorScribe: It gives complete freedom for editing and customization without a ton of excess work
• CADtools 5: With this plugin user can create special grids and draw isometric project even in 3D
• Phantasm CS2: It allows you to change the curves, hue and saturation efficiently and effectively
• SymmetryWorks 4: It allows you to work on greeting cards, vectors, symbols and patterns to incorporate into your artwork

Q9. Explain the difference between a Layer and a Group?

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Technically there is very less difference between a Layer and a Group.  They both create a parent object that may contain one or more child objects.  Groups are used to bundle artwork that you want to keep together when scaling or moving. While Layers are normally used for managing visibility and stacking order.

Q10. Explain what is the main difference between Adobe illustrator and design?

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The main difference between Adobe illustrator and design is that the illustrator is a vector design program while indesign is used for desktop publishing.

Q11. What is Adobe Systems?

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Adobe Systems is a computer software company based in California, United States. Founded in December 1982, by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. This company aims at creating creative and multimedia software products. It is well known for its Photoshop image editing software, Acrobat Reader, Portable Document Format ( PDF ) and Adobe Creative Suite.

Q12. What is vector in Illustrator?

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Q13. What is text tool in Illustrator?

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Found in the left-hand toolbar, the Type Tool (T) is inarguably one of the most important tools within Adobe Illustrator. With it, you can type out lines of horizontal text or align text to follow a vector path, to name just a few functions. Once activated, click and drag a text box to act as a boundary for your text.

Q14. What is the touch Type tool in Illustrator?

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Q15. What is masking in Illustrator?

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