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Day 29: Saving & Printing

In this lesson, we will learn how to crop your artwork for exporting to JPG for website or printing. We will also cover about EPS file which is the universal format for saving vector graphics.

Savings Files Using Crop Area

When you try to export your file to a JPG, sometimes you may notice white areas around the image. This is due to the hidden images under the mask (see example below). Illustrator exports the bounding box of all the objects in the artboard regardless of whether it is masked away. To solve this problem, you will need to define a crop area to tell Illustrator this is the area to export rather than exporting the whole graphic.


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    chidera ekwe April 13th

    thnx a lot for the tuts. am nnew to illustrator but fairly proficient in photoshop.i think its the coolest software since torrents

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    Evaline April 13th

    IJWTS wow! Why can’t I think of tnghis like that?

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    Marivic So March 3rd

    there’s no crop area>make in the ai cs5 i use. but slice tool, and exporting the selected slice works the same. :)

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