From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

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Enhancing performance with Rasterize

Enhancing performance with Rasterize - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

Enhancing performance with Rasterize

There are some times when you'll actually using effect inside of Illustrator not to change the appearance of artwork, but rather to help you work a little bit faster inside of Illustrator with your artwork. Now there may be times if you're working on a kind of design that uses many different patterns--patterns, if they are complex, can not only slow down re-draw time when you're working inside of Illustrator, it can really slow down print times as well. In fact, it's not uncommon for me to see people take really complex artwork that uses tons of patterns inside of Illustrator and bring them into Photoshop and try to print them from Photoshop because it even prints faster there, even at a higher resolution. Well, you don't have to go to that extreme at all. In fact, you can use an effect to temporarily turn a vector object into a raster-based object, and in doing so, when it prints out of Illustrator, it will print as a raster. But it still remains fully editable as a vector object…

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