- [Instructor] All right, now let's say you want to
take your custom emoji and you want to use it
as an actual emoji on your smartphone or other device.
Well in that case, you want to export your illustration
as a PNG file and then adjust it and create
a few size variations inside Photoshop.
So assuming you're working with the most recent
version of Illustrator CC, go up to the File menu,
choose Export, and then choose Export for Screens.
Now by default that should set you to the Artboards tab,
which is what you want, but we don't actually
want to export the entire artboard,
because then we'd end up with too much extra space.
So for our specific purposes here,
you want to set the Select option to Full Document.
Then, go ahead and click on this little folder icon
in order to specify the folder into which
you want to export your images,
and in my case, I've created this PNG tests subfolder
inside the 22_gradients folder.
After which point, I'll click the Select Folder button
to do exactly that.
You also want to make sure that the
Open Location after Export checkbox is turned on,
and then you want to add some scales
and set the file format.
Now, you definitely want Format to be set to PNG,
the first option in this popup menu.
That's gonna give you by far the best results,
and if you want your image to have a Suffix,
then just go ahead and enter it.
I'm gonna enter -100 for 100%.
Now the thing about this document
is that it's enormous by emoji standards,
so we need to add some smaller scales
by clicking on this Add Scale button right there,
and then what you want to do is change
the scale value to 0.5x.
You can also change the Suffix for that if you like
to let's say -50 for 50%.
Now in truth, your standard everyday average emoji,
at least for an iPhone or other Apple device is concerned,
is actually a quarter of the size of this document.
Unfortunately, you can't create anything
quite that small inside this dialog box.
Notice if I click on Add Scale,
and I change this to let's say 0.75x,
because there is no 0.25x available to me,
and then I change this value manually, like so,
and then press the Tab key,
Illustrator goes ahead and ups the value to 0.5,
which is as low as you can go.
So, rather than do that, I'm just gonna click
this X right here in order to get rid of
that third scale value, and then I'll click
the Export Artboard button,
and a moment later, you should see your images
inside whatever folder you selected.
All right I want to make sure that these PNG files
open in Photoshop, so I'm gonna right-click
on this guy right here, the one that's called
Very angry emoji-100, and then I'll choose
Properties here on a PC.
You would choose the Get Info command on the Mac,
and you just want to make sure that Opens with
is set to Photoshop CC, in my case, 2015.5.
Now if it's not, you just click the Change button
here on a PC, and then you would
click Apply or what have you.
All right but I've already done this in advance,
so I'll just click OK, and then I'll double-click
on this image file in order to open it inside Photoshop.
Now, notice that we have just a little bit
of transparency indicated by this checkerboard pattern
around the circular emoji.
As it turns out, that's not quite enough room.
Notice if I go up here to the File menu
and once again I'm working now inside Photoshop,
and choose the Open command,
and then grab this guy right here,
Classic smiley emoji, and click on the Open button,
you can see that we have some additional room.
If you don't include that additional room,
then there's a chance that the sides
of the image will get cut off when you try
to text the emoji.
To avoid that problem, I'll go ahead and return
to this image, and then I'll go up to the Image menu
and choose the Canvas Size command,
which allows you to effectively
uncrop an image, that is to say give the canvas more room.
All right next you want to make sure the Relative checkbox
is turned off, and then you want to make sure
you're working in Pixels.
None of these other units is gonna
represent what's happening on your device.
Then, just go ahead and change both the Width
and the Height values to 640 pixels,
which is gonna give you an extra 60 pixels
for both the Height and Width of that canvas.
At which point, click OK, and you'll notice that
that checkerboard area expands,
so we're not actually changing the size
of the emoji, we're changing the amount of room around it.
Now this next step isn't essential,
but it's a very good idea to go ahead
and assign a color profile to your image.
To do that, go to the Edit menu and choose
the Assign Profile command.
If you get this warning, just click OK,
and then go ahead and set that profile
to sRGB followed by IEC61966 and so forth.
Now by default that's gonna be your working profile,
but if it's not, then go ahead and select
the Profile tab instead and then locate sRGB
inside of this big list right here.
Then, click OK.
That's just gonna ensure that you get
the best colors possible across all devices.
Now what you want to do is go up to the File menu
and choose the Save command in order to
update that PNG image, and that's all there is to it.
With the exception of the problem that
this is a very huge emoji,
much bigger than the ones that are included by default
along with a smartphone.
So to create some smaller images,
you might want to go ahead and open that guy
that you created inside of Illustrator,
that is the -50 PNG file.
Problem is, then you would have to go ahead
and expand its canvas and assign it a profile as well.
So the more efficient way to work
is to go back to that original 100% version of your image,
then go to the Image menu and this time
choose the Image Size command,
and if you want to give yourself a little more room
to work, then you can expand the size of this dialog box,
so you have a bigger preview.
Then, you want to turn on the Resample checkbox.
That's gonna allow you to change the number
of pixels inside the image.
Then change the method from Automatic
which is a little bit destructive,
it's not what we want, to Bicubic (smooth gradients).
Now, make sure your Width and Height values
are linked into alignment with each other.
Notice that the resolution is 72 pixels per inch.
That is just fine by the way.
That's exactly what you want,
and so just go ahead and change this option
right here to Percent so that you're seeing
100% and change it to 50 instead.
Then, click OK, and that will reduce
the size of your image like so,
and then I'm gonna go ahead and close
this image right there, the 50% image
I created inside Illustrator.
I'll go up to the File menu, choose the Save As command,
don't choose Save, because you'll overwrite the original.
Go ahead and choose Save As, go ahead and click on
that guy to replace it right there,
so it ends in -50.png.
The As a Copy checkbox is gonna be turned on.
Don't worry about that,
and you should see this Profile checkbox turned on as well.
At which point, you can ignore that Warning button
and just click Save, and overwrite that file.
Next, make sure that Compression is set to Smallest/Slow,
which is not very slow at all by the way,
and you definitely want Interlace to be set to None.
At which point, click OK.
All right now this guy is still twice as big
as an actual emoji included with your phone,
and so to create a real-sized image,
then go back to the Image menu,
choose the Image Size command, and once again
make sure that Resample is turned on
and set to Bicubic (smooth gradients).
You should still be working with Percent,
so just go ahead and change that percent value
again to 50% because after all
50% of 50% is 25%, then click OK,
and now, go to the File menu, choose Save As,
and this time, let's just go ahead and change
the -100 to -25, click Save, and then click OK.
You have now created an emoji that's scaled
to the size of those included with your smartphone.
Now what I suggest you do is just go ahead
and transfer those three images
over to your smartphone or other device.
Then try texting them to a friend
that's gonna get the joke and see how things work.
That is how you take your custom emoji
and turn it into a real emoji that you can use
with any mobile device.