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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll introduce

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you to the Save for Web command which

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allows you to save a copy of your document

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as a pixel based screen image.

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Whether it's bound for the web, a device,

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or presentation.

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Currently we're looking at a document

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that contains three art boards

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but Save for Web can only accommodate

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one art board at a time and it has to be

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the one that you're looking at.

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So let's say I want to
export the second art board.

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In that case I would
press shift + page down,

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in order to advance to it.

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Now I'll go up to the File menu,

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choose Export and then
choose Save for Web Legacy.

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That word legacy indicates that Adobe

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considers the command to be obsolete.

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But in truth it still has a few

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tricks up its sleeve which is possibly

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why Illustrator has left in the keyboard

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shortcut of ctrl + shift
+ alt + s here in the PC

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or cmd + shift + opt + s on the Mac.

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Now, if this is the first time you're

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choosing the command then you may

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well see this alert message telling you

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about the new kid on the
block Export for Screens.

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And we will be seeing that command

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in a future movie but
for now, just go ahead

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and click the Close button
in order to proceed.

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Now one of the nice thing about

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this Save for Web window is that it is

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scalable so you can go ahead and make

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it large enough to take
up the entire screen.

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Now notice the word gif in the top right

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region of the screen.

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Go ahead and click on it to reveal

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the file formats
supported by this command.

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All of which we'll be
discussing in future movies.

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But for now, just go
ahead and choose Ping 24.

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All right, now notice these three tabs

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up here at the top of the screen.

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We have Original which shows us

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the uncompressed version of the image.

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Then we see Optimized which shows

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us any compression that might be applied.

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Which in the case of Ping
24 isn't really anything.

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And then we have 2 Up which will show us

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the Original and Optimized versions

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of the image side-by-side.

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Generally however, you just want to

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look at the Optimized version.

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And notice in my case we have a little bit

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of a hiccup here, but if I just drag

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inside the preview I'll
see the entire thing.

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All right, now if you
want to scroll around

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inside the preview you just drag

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with the hand tool.

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If you want to zoom in, ctrl or cmd click.

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If you want to zoom out
just alt or opt click,

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and that's all there is to that.

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All right, notice this checkerboard

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in the background.

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That indicates transparency.

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That is a lack of any objects.

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Now, normally when you're
working inside Illustrator

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transparency is indicated
by a white art board.

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And that's because the assumption is that

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you'll be printing to white paper.

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However, you can retain this transparency

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when exporting to certain file formats.

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If you don't want it then go ahead

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and turn off the transparency checkbox.

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In which case that transparent background

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will be replaced by a matte color which

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could be white or a
color that you eye drop

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using the eyedropper over here

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on the left side of the screen.

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You can also dial in your
own color if you like.

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But I'm going to stick with white.

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All right, now notice
down here in the bottom

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left corner of the screen
we've got a Preview button

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which will go ahead and load your artwork

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in your default web browser,
whether it's Chrome,

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Firefox or something else.

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And if you'd like to
select a different browser

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then just click on this world icon.

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We also have this fairly archaic

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setting right here called Browser Dither

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and to show you what that looks like

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I'll just go ahead and
scroll this guy over.

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And now I'll turn Browser Dither on,

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and what we're seeing is
just those 200 or so colors

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inside the web safe palette which is

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an intersection of the
old school Macintosh

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and Windows os palettes
from the dark old days.

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But that stuff died int he 90s so you

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don't really need to worry about it now.

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I'm going to zoom out here by alt or opt

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clicking like so.

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We seem to have a little bit of a residue

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in the preview, nothing to worry about.

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Now notice this checkbox right there,

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Clip to Art Board.

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If you turn it off as opposed to exporting

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just the active art board you're going

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to export every art
board in your document.

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And if you want to see
what that looks like

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just press cntrl + 0
or cmd + 0 on the Mac.

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And when you're zoomed out this far

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things look pretty wretched.

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But this would actually
be a very big image file.

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Chances are good however that you're

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not going to want to do that.

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So I'll go ahead and turn
Clip to Art Board back on

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so we're exporting just
the current art board.

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And then I'll press cntrl + alt + 0

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or cmd + opt + 0 on the Mac in order

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to zoom to a 100 percent.

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All right, now notice
this option right here,

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Art Optimized, it determines
the anti-aliasing method.

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Which is the way in which curved surfaces

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are rendered to square pixels.

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And to show you what I'm talking about

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I'll go ahead and zoom
in on the word Cyan.

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So notice what happens if I change

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this setting to None.

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Now chances are good we're going to jump

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to a different portion of the artwork.

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But even if that happens, which it did,

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you can see that we're getting some

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very choppy transitions.

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So this is what the world would look like

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if there was no such
thing as anti-aliasing.

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Which is why it's fortunate we can switch

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between Art Optimized or Type Optimized.

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Now I'd love to be able to show you

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the difference between these two settings

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right here and now, but as you're seeing,

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we're jumping up to the top left corner

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of the screen each time.

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And so what I've done is I've gone

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ahead and exported this artwork

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both using the Art Optimized and the

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Type Optimized settings.

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And so let's take a look at those images

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inside Photoshop.

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All right, so here we
are looking at the image

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with the anti-aliasing
set to Art Optimized.

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Now the imagery looks absolutely great.

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Especially you notice these soft

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gradient transitions here
inside the color wheel.

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But the text is a little less legible

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than it could be.

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Whereas, if I switch over
to the Type Optimized

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version of the image the
text looks absolutely

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great with fortified
Serif's and other details

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but we're seeing some choppy transitions

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here inside the color wheel.

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So the rule of thumb is if your artwork

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doesn't contain any text then go ahead

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and set it to Art Optimized.

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If it does contain text then
set it to Type Optimized.

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It really is that simple.

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All right, here we are back inside

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Save for Web and frankly that pretty well

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takes care of everything
with the exception

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of these image size options which we will

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examine in the very next movie.