- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll introduce
you to the Save for Web command which
allows you to save a copy of your document
as a pixel based screen image.
Whether it's bound for the web, a device,
or presentation.
Currently we're looking at a document
that contains three art boards
but Save for Web can only accommodate
one art board at a time and it has to be
the one that you're looking at.
So let's say I want to export the second art board.
In that case I would press shift + page down,
in order to advance to it.
Now I'll go up to the File menu,
choose Export and then choose Save for Web Legacy.
That word legacy indicates that Adobe
considers the command to be obsolete.
But in truth it still has a few
tricks up its sleeve which is possibly
why Illustrator has left in the keyboard
shortcut of ctrl + shift + alt + s here in the PC
or cmd + shift + opt + s on the Mac.
Now, if this is the first time you're
choosing the command then you may
well see this alert message telling you
about the new kid on the block Export for Screens.
And we will be seeing that command
in a future movie but for now, just go ahead
and click the Close button in order to proceed.
Now one of the nice thing about
this Save for Web window is that it is
scalable so you can go ahead and make
it large enough to take up the entire screen.
Now notice the word gif in the top right
region of the screen.
Go ahead and click on it to reveal
the file formats supported by this command.
All of which we'll be discussing in future movies.
But for now, just go ahead and choose Ping 24.
All right, now notice these three tabs
up here at the top of the screen.
We have Original which shows us
the uncompressed version of the image.
Then we see Optimized which shows
us any compression that might be applied.
Which in the case of Ping 24 isn't really anything.
And then we have 2 Up which will show us
the Original and Optimized versions
of the image side-by-side.
Generally however, you just want to
look at the Optimized version.
And notice in my case we have a little bit
of a hiccup here, but if I just drag
inside the preview I'll see the entire thing.
All right, now if you want to scroll around
inside the preview you just drag
with the hand tool.
If you want to zoom in, ctrl or cmd click.
If you want to zoom out just alt or opt click,
and that's all there is to that.
All right, notice this checkerboard
in the background.
That indicates transparency.
That is a lack of any objects.
Now, normally when you're working inside Illustrator
transparency is indicated by a white art board.
And that's because the assumption is that
you'll be printing to white paper.
However, you can retain this transparency
when exporting to certain file formats.
If you don't want it then go ahead
and turn off the transparency checkbox.
In which case that transparent background
will be replaced by a matte color which
could be white or a color that you eye drop
using the eyedropper over here
on the left side of the screen.
You can also dial in your own color if you like.
But I'm going to stick with white.
All right, now notice down here in the bottom
left corner of the screen we've got a Preview button
which will go ahead and load your artwork
in your default web browser, whether it's Chrome,
Firefox or something else.
And if you'd like to select a different browser
then just click on this world icon.
We also have this fairly archaic
setting right here called Browser Dither
and to show you what that looks like
I'll just go ahead and scroll this guy over.
And now I'll turn Browser Dither on,
and what we're seeing is just those 200 or so colors
inside the web safe palette which is
an intersection of the old school Macintosh
and Windows os palettes from the dark old days.
But that stuff died int he 90s so you
don't really need to worry about it now.
I'm going to zoom out here by alt or opt
clicking like so.
We seem to have a little bit of a residue
in the preview, nothing to worry about.
Now notice this checkbox right there,
Clip to Art Board.
If you turn it off as opposed to exporting
just the active art board you're going
to export every art board in your document.
And if you want to see what that looks like
just press cntrl + 0 or cmd + 0 on the Mac.
And when you're zoomed out this far
things look pretty wretched.
But this would actually be a very big image file.
Chances are good however that you're
not going to want to do that.
So I'll go ahead and turn Clip to Art Board back on
so we're exporting just the current art board.
And then I'll press cntrl + alt + 0
or cmd + opt + 0 on the Mac in order
to zoom to a 100 percent.
All right, now notice this option right here,
Art Optimized, it determines the anti-aliasing method.
Which is the way in which curved surfaces
are rendered to square pixels.
And to show you what I'm talking about
I'll go ahead and zoom in on the word Cyan.
So notice what happens if I change
this setting to None.
Now chances are good we're going to jump
to a different portion of the artwork.
But even if that happens, which it did,
you can see that we're getting some
very choppy transitions.
So this is what the world would look like
if there was no such thing as anti-aliasing.
Which is why it's fortunate we can switch
between Art Optimized or Type Optimized.
Now I'd love to be able to show you
the difference between these two settings
right here and now, but as you're seeing,
we're jumping up to the top left corner
of the screen each time.
And so what I've done is I've gone
ahead and exported this artwork
both using the Art Optimized and the
Type Optimized settings.
And so let's take a look at those images
inside Photoshop.
All right, so here we are looking at the image
with the anti-aliasing set to Art Optimized.
Now the imagery looks absolutely great.
Especially you notice these soft
gradient transitions here inside the color wheel.
But the text is a little less legible
than it could be.
Whereas, if I switch over to the Type Optimized
version of the image the text looks absolutely
great with fortified Serif's and other details
but we're seeing some choppy transitions
here inside the color wheel.
So the rule of thumb is if your artwork
doesn't contain any text then go ahead
and set it to Art Optimized.
If it does contain text then set it to Type Optimized.
It really is that simple.
All right, here we are back inside
Save for Web and frankly that pretty well
takes care of everything with the exception
of these image size options which we will
examine in the very next movie.