Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Optimizing your art to a specific file size, part of Illustrator CC 2013 One-on-One: Intermediate.
In this movie, I'll show you how to…optimize your artwork to a specific file size.…That is to say, you dial in the file…size and Illustrator decides the best settings for you.…I'm going to press Shift+page down a couple of times, in…order to advance to the art board that contains the surfboard.…And you can see that I've gone ahead and…created separated art boards for the skateboard and surfboard.…>> And I've made them pretty small as well there.…Fairly tight to the artwork, as you can see,…with just a little bit of white margin all the way around.…And there's a couple of reasons for this.…
For starters, I want my final optimized images to be as small as possible.…And secondly, tight spacing inside your artwork gives you more…flexibility when you lay out your artwork inside of a webpage.…Because if I had a big, huge artwork, then I'm going to have a…lot of space around that graphic when I post it to the web.…Which of course, is not what I want.…So with my small art board, that contains the surf board, I'll go…
Author
Deke McClelland
Released
8/22/2013- Creating layers, sublayers, and groups
- Lifting a color and creating a swatch
- Assigning colors to paths inside groups
- Adjusting the stacking order
- Using the Width tool to adjust line weight
- Masking a pattern inside a background
- Assigning and modifying a gradient fill
- Creating a radial gradient
- Drawing a linear spiral with the Polar Grid tool
- Adding a credible 3D cast shadow
- Contouring with the Blob Brush and Eraser
- Creating and painting an overlapping path
- Placing Photoshop images in Illustrator files
- Previewing and printing documents
- Optimizing documents for the web
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome to One-on-One2m 18s
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11. Layers and Groups
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Creating and using sublayers5m 48s
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Creating clipping groups6m 40s
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Working in an isolation mode5m 29s
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12. Swatches and Stacking Order
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Searching swatches by name8m 31s
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Adjusting the stacking order6m 30s
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Pasting in front and in back6m 13s
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Combining multiple fills7m 32s
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13. Strokes, Dashes, and Arrows
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Introducing the Stroke panel4m 49s
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Dashes and arrowheads4m 12s
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14. Gradients and the Gradient Tool
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How gradients work1m 3s
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Creating a radial gradient5m 26s
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Adjusting the midpoint skew3m 31s
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15. Seamlessly Repeating Patterns
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16. Align and Distribute
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17. Pathfinder Operations
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Adding to a compound shape3m 20s
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Using Divide and Minus Back4m 28s
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18. Live Paint and Interlocking Paths
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Introducing Live Paint5m 39s
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19. Placing Photoshop Images
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Working with linked images8m 58s
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Linking vs. embedding images10m 29s
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Unembedding an image3m 30s
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20. Printing a Document
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Placement, scale, and tiling5m 59s
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21. Saving for the Web (and PowerPoint)
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Conclusion
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Until next time54s
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