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Optimizing a low-color graphic

Optimizing a low-color graphic - Illustrator Tutorial

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Optimizing a low-color graphic

In this exercise I'm going to show how to save a low color high contrast graphic as a gif image. And I have opened this illustration Astormann.ai found inside the 12_exporting folder and you might just recognize it from Chapter 10. Now it's a highly articulated graphic. We have an extremely complicated path outline representing the tree. Then we've got this moon which is of course a compound shape inside of another compound shape and then we have some text, but there's not much in the way of color going on, just three colors in all. We've got Black, White and Blue, and the blue isn't even a gradient. It's just a solid blue rectangle. The end. So GIF is going to be a great format for this graphic, because after all it lets you choose 256 different colors. We only have three. Bear in mind we need more than three colors to represent the anti-alias pixels and so on. But 256 should be more than enough. What we don't want is a bunch of random weird compression artifacts, here in the solid…

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