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Printing, Saving, and Exporting

That's the head and open up. I think we can open up my poor little butterflies and I'm gonna also turn on my pins. Just because I think that's funny. I don't know why. Because I worked with three D f. It was funny, used in radio radiant here. And I made a three d little pin here, and then I stuck them in each to the butterflies. And maybe that's saying something about me and we don't want to go into that this late in the day. But I've got this item and I want to go ahead and do something with it. So the first thing I probably want to do is save it as an illustrator file. Right? So when I hit command s or control as to save, it's going to save it as an illustrator file. I'm going to save, as so I have a different version of it. Tell where to sit, and I'm going to tell it. Save as an illustrator file dot ai. This is a native illustrator file. When you're saving and you're going to go, let's say you're gonna go to in design. I'm going to save that as an ai file native file. I don't want t...

o save it isn't ups or pdf can, but saving is the native file means in design has all the information available to it. The great thing about it is they all talk to each other, right place Native Photoshopped files and in design, same thing they able to get in and see the information. A lot of them shared the same rendering information. Whatever it's going to do if I have information here, especially by placed a photo shop file in my illustrator file, have taken the illustrator file on placing it in in design by keeping it native. Not only can you read all the illustrator elements, but it can also read all the Photoshopped file elements as well. And so when I go out, put it. It can say, Hey, I have all this information because what happens A lot of times, people save it to another format. You have to make choices. How high is that resolution? Or how high is this? Or what is this like? Will now have made a choice and it's a one way street. By keeping it native, I can always make changes to it back in the original program and they filter down through. So this case, I'm just gonna save it out into my folder. Actually, I'm not gonna say that would save to the desktop as an AI file. Right? So I'm just gonna save it and it's gonna ask me, Do I want it to be Illustrator CC? It did say, Illustrator 17 just before this version that just came out the new 2014. But it does tell me that it's compatible with Illustrator 17 and above. So the nice thing is, if you did the January update of the cloud and you have somebody else on the team that is working with the 2014 even if they save it, is this new version, Sisi. It's compatible with all the versions of CC, which is kind of nice, but maybe I know I need Teoh Save it back. For someone who's using CS five, I would need to actually choose the version of of Illustrator that I needed to work with. Keep in mind if it's something if it's something used to create something, it's probably fine because a lot of times the new tools just give you a new way to create something, but the finished file is the same. But if it's something that's using some really wow combining thing that you just they just came up with and you save it backwards, you might lose that. That's their, um, go ahead and create a pdf compatible file and use compression and I see See profiles. I just checked those of the defaults, and I tend to leave those. It's gonna put some color information, which is the I. C C. Profiles, and it's gonna compress it. And PDF compatible file is great. If you have other file formats that can read P. D efs. You know that you'll probably be able to place this file in there. No problem, because it uses the underlying engine for illustrator is pdf. So you tender those air all defaults. I tend to just leave that will say okay for that. Those things we can save it as we can go ahead and save it as where he did it as a template. We can also choose save this template here, but I could do save as I can save it out as a pdf right from here which is nice. So if I want a PdF, I want to give this to somebody else, and I'm pretty sure they don't have illustrator save it out as a PdF. There's a lot of choices in here. I'm not gonna go over all of those if you're going direct to print from this, which you may or may not be doing. One of the great things to choose is a PdF x one a at least in North America. That's a standard, ah, printing standard. And what that does is it makes an Acrobat four file, which is ancient. I know they're an acrobat 11 but what it does is it flattens. It means all the transparency that we have is no longer there. It shows it in such a way that it gives the appearance of being transparent. But it's not. Which means if there's older machinery that the people are using a print shop rip engine, it's called, It won't choke on. It won't be like, Ah, you have transparency. I don't know how to handle that because you've already taken that piece of the puzzle out, so it makes it look transparent without being transparent. So just know that if you're sending it to somebody, you don't know who it's sending to and you don't know is printing it. Acrobat four Jews PD affects one. I will change it Acrobat floor, and it takes that kind of out of the mix. So that's basically what I was told people. If you don't know where it's going, use that. If you're making it for something else, like say, you're making it, too for people to read on their IPad. You probably wouldn't want to use that because that's going to make it seem like a It's not going printing. It's gonna go. Maybe you've made it for print and you've sent that and that's going todo in design for Prince. You're gonna send it off to somebody else is going to do that. But now you want to take this design and make it so that people can also just look at it on their IPod. The IPad. So I have one set up actually, don't have it here. It's not my machine. I have it set up so that it takes it and compresses it, and I can leave it at 303 100 a little high. But like I said, the retina displays are close to print quality, which is 300. I could leave it all of that. And I can tell it marks and bleeds if I want, but I'm going toe. I just want a pdf to read on an IPad. I wouldn't do that. But I could tell it that I want to convert it to destination. And I probably would want to make it rgb so I'd find one of these These profiles that are here that are RGB I can't actually choose that because I have it said for Acrobat four. So you tell it, RGB So I know it's going rgb because I know that IPad is RGB device. So I'm again. I'm not gonna go over everything that's in here. But just so you know, you need to set the compression because you need to tell it what to do with items that actually have resolution in here. So five placed Photoshopped files. It matters. If I haven't placed Photoshopped files, none of this really matters, because again, it's factor. It's not gonna be a problem at all. And I would go ahead and click, Save pdf. So again, if you're going to take it somewhere like in design, we want to save it as an illustrator file or we could save it as a PdF. But why? I usually keep it as an illustrator file if I'm sending it to someone who I I don't know where it's going, and I just want to be able to make sure that anybody can open it and read it. Pdf is probably the way to go. A lot of printers also want PdF. I used to say about TPS all the time. That's one of the other options we can actually export. I believe toe gps, um, exports save as so I think somebody's understate 1000 summer export. So when you save as and I do GPS, we're talking about embroiders. I think embroiders might use GPS, and I know for a fact, like a lot of package designers, they want ill starred files, but they want them saved his GPS. So again, this might just be something you hear floating around this. They save it as a PdF or save it is a GPS, then we know we need to go in there and say savers ups, and we've got some options there as well for the different resolutions. If we have Photoshopped files in there and basically what the compatibility is, and it always defaults to the newest one, and that's probably a good thing to do unless you know you're handing it off to somebody who might need to open it In an older version, we're not really going to go into all the different. There's so many different things. But again, this goes back to the very first thing I said, No, what's going to happen to it at the end? You probably want to know ahead of time how you need to export this. Where is this going At the end? What is the final format you need there like I want Native Illustrator files. But save is an illustrator file or we're going to need pdf. So we're gonna need GPS is when we're done knowing that along the way is good as we're building things, which isn't a big deal for working with just with illustrator documents. But we start putting in those Photoshopped files and we hear what it needs to be placed is now. We have to start thinking about resolution even though it's an illustrator. But that resolution gets passed through from Photoshopped through Illustrator Toe, whatever her output is on there as well. So again, just be thinking about that the whole time, where it's coming from, where it's going to and so you know what your options are when it comes Toe toe output afterwards and the last thing is printing from here file print, and we can print directly from here if we want. I rarely print directly from illustrator at all, but we can. If you're used to in design, this is gonna look familiar. It's probably gonna look familiar even on photo shop. I haven't printed directly from photo shop in years, either. But all your options are gonna change depending on the type of printer that you've chosen. And again, if you're printers not here, you're not even going to know how to set that up. Here's what I usually do. The instant printing directly from illustrator, especially if I'm planning to say an inkjet printer in my office. Most of those were not postscript printers, and they have problems, and it takes forever to print. I make a PdF of everything and print from there just because then when you've made the pdf you've already done all that conversion, the color conversion, all the number crunching, everything it has to do. You're not asking your $100 inkjet printer to do all that work, which is not gonna give you very good results. You're going to use the same pdf engine that all the adobe products air using. Then it makes up a pdf and then that pdf is gonna fly to your injured pride and come out really quickly because your little machine isn't trying to crunch all these numbers. You've let the adobe products do that, which we know are fast. And then this just goes. That's a pdf. I know what to do with it. Here you go. It's going to spit it out. So that makes sense. Absolutely. I think I think it got question. Maybe one question, maybe one question. Well, listen here. Okay. Um, is it possible to work on the transparent background to work on a transfer back? Yes. Yes, this is actually transferred. If I place this in to say in design now, you have to choose if I place it. Um I'm not sure if you when you plays illustrated files, the option is transparent. But this is transparent. If I put this, you know, actually, I can see that if I create a rectangle back behind, right. If I create that and fill it with a color, what did it do? I have no idea what I just did to that. That's really weird. Oh, here we go. And if I send it to the back, those are my pins. I have to put that on a different layer, So Yeah. So anyway, this thing is in the very moved this all the way down to the back here. Sure. Uh, and I need to move this rectangle to the bottom as well. It's not working for me at all, but I have a hidden layer that had extra butterflies on there. So yes, so it's automatically transparent. If I haven't assigned to fill to it, it's automatically transfer. That's what the nun is. So I have a fill of unstable show through. If I place it in in design, anything that's coming from behind there will also show through automatically. And if you place a pdf, you have to make sure that you've kept the transparency. And if you choose that, pdf four, you don't have transparency anymore, so thank you. Sure you want to do one more? Is there someone with a burning question? Or for like about just final words for people? Words of wisdom for folks who again are opening illustrator for the first time. Don't be afraid and hear the word illustrator and think you have to be this great illustrator for it. There are a lot of things if you learn the tools and learn what they can do and learn other tools that we can bring in. Like I said, I bring in my cheat sheets and stuff like that. I bring that I don't feel bad at all. I'm still taking the time to draw on top of that, but just learn how to use the tools and just kind of play with it and have fun. It actually can be fun. It used to be very intimidating for me, even 56 years. I've been using it for local creation since, like version, you know, But I just never felt like I could be creative in it if you just kind of learned the tools a little bit. Get a good knowledge of the tools. You realize what? There's a lot of cool stuff you can create that you probably couldn't draw if you sat down with pen and pencil. And if you're an illustrator, will then you've got it made. If you're already doing the stuff in the real world, you've got it made. So I say, Just have fun with it, learn the tools and have fun.