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Saving an illustration for the web

Saving an illustration for the web - Illustrator Tutorial

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Saving an illustration for the web

In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to a command under the File Menu, that goes by the name Save for Web & Devices. And its purpose is to allow you to export graphics for inclusion on a website. You can also use it to email an Artboard to somebody if you like, because it really does get the file sizes down to their absolute minimum. So there's one of two ways you can go; you could either export an illustration as an image file, that is a pixel-based image. And that might be a JPEG image if you're working with a continuous tone image, or one that has a lot of gradients and smooth transitions, as does this piece of artwork. Or if you've got a low color high contrast piece of art, then you can export it to GIF or PNG, and we'll see how that works. You can also export the graphic as a scalable vector file, either to the SVG or SWF format. So I am working inside of that file called Ghost Robot with PDF.ai, that's the version that I added the metadata to, and it's found inside the…

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