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I used an automatic photoshop script once and worked well.
The concept is :
Each portion is a different image.
Each portion (and so, each images) must be in the same folder w/o any other images.
Run the script indicating the folder and some parameters (size, css name, etc...).
The script does :
Merge all images into one with the size you indicated.
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You can use the "slice" tool (looks like an x-acto knife, below the wand):
select the rectangular area you wish to save using the slice tool.
go to "save for web"
use the "slice selection" tool to pick the slice(s) you wish to export, set your options and then save.
in the save dialog, pick "selected slices" from the "slices" drop down at the bottom of the ...
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Using File → Save for Web and entering the dimensions will do what you're after. Also, Illustrator uses vector scaling, so the results are better than if you tried the same thing in Photoshop — entering dimensions that don't match the document in Photoshop means the image will be bitmap scaled.
Please note that you have to click Apply after changing the ...
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To add in words, Since Export Layers to Files is run by some script all I had to do was find that script, then find the function which saves the layers to files, find which part of the function does the numbering prefix & comment it out.
So here are the steps -
on Mac running Lion, goto Applications > Adobe Photoshop CS5 > Presets > Scripts ...
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GIF is not designed for high-quality images. Smooth vectors from Flash will end up pixelated in GIFs not matter what you do. Photos and the like will generally look bad because of the reduced palette. Dithering can help, but the end result will still be much lower quality.
If you want an animation, you should really be using straight Flash and not GIFs ...
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In general, all of the fonts you use should be embedded when you export it using one of the existing PDF presets (in fact, I believe that it's a major piece of work to not have the fonts automatically embed).
The only issue you may have is if you're using some bizarre font with strange permissions (e.g., the trial version of a font, a font that someone ...
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What you're observing is not a clipping mask, per se. Jpeg has no transparency and no concept of clipping or masking. Jpeg does have several metadata sections, and many programs will happily store extra information in there.
Photoshop stores paths, as you've noticed, and guides. To replicate this, create a new file and add some paths and guides. Then ...
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Copying 54kb PNG file to Windows XP VM decreased file size to 5kb. OS X Photoshop version adds "com.apple.resourcefork" attribute to file during regular saving. You can see it by ls -l@ filename.png. The attribute is not included in file, but the file system shows total size. The white background from the screenshot seems to appear because of this attribute. ...
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So it's just two adjustment layers you need to add? I'd create an action to add them, then use a batch (File → Automate → Batch) to process all the original files. You can include a Save For Web command in the Action to save them to a known location, as well.
Should be a fairly quick job to set up, and it also shouldn't take long to stomp through 138 or ...
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eps is the standard, and the process is as simple as choosing eps from the Save As menu. It's been the standard for this sort of thing (final asset delivery) for longer than I've been in the industry, is understood by basically all vector design software, and is very similar to Illustrator's native format (the original post script format eps is based on was ...
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All pngs are 'good' and 'sharp' as they are losslessly compressed, unlike jpgs. It's just a matter of experimenting with settings that keep an amount of colour that you're happy with while keeping file sizes as low as possible.
In Photoshop, the 'Save for web' exporter allows you to view 3 different optimised versions of the output as well as the original. ...
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Unfortunately, at the size of your screenshot there could be a million "artifacts" and none would be discernible. Here's what I suspect you're seeing (because I can't): the text from the screenshot becomes pixelated doggy-doo when you print.
To get clean-looking text on a desktop inkjet printer, you need real text (vector data), or your document as a whole ...
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This is a kind of last resort, when you're really stuck. Realize that no matter what the original size and resolution of the image were, AI considers "full size" (100%) to be the physical dimensions of the image at 72 ppi -- a legacy of the original Mac screen resolution that has somehow got itself stuck, regardless of the fact that it's been obsolete for ...
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When I export an image from Illustrator, why is it a slightly different color in the exported image?
Sounds like a problem with the working ICC profile. Have you disabled color management?
If you haven't already, go to Edit -> Assign Profile and select Don't Color Manage This Document.
I can duplicate the problem mentioned to an extent (getting various sample values, though not getting the same #CA006C) by changing the assigned profile. (FWIW, using ...
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Unfortunately, I do not have access to CS3, I use CS5. However, I noticed that when you export, in the dialog box where you choose the file name, there's also this option:
Make sure it's unchecked as shown, this will export ONLY the content, not the artboard.
EDIT
Alternatively you can fit your artboard to your illustration:
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I'm going to try and answer this question based on the given information regardless of format but under the assumption that these are large-format banners going by the hard dimensions given...
If you are combining large elements like this, I would highly recommend that you move your layout work out of Illustrator and into InDesign or Quark, then output to ...
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When applying anti-aliasing in the Save for Web & Devices panel the entire export gets the same anti-aliasing method but you can apply the anti-alisaing on an object level.
Select an object and go to Effect > Rasterize.... Choose your desired ppi, it is better to always choose Use Document Raster Effects Resolution because then it will be easy to ...
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Adding strokes to text to create a feux bold is really bad practice. It would be a much better solution to use a typeface which actually has a bold face.
Check the Reader prefs... Page Display > use Overprint Preview [dropdown] Set that to "Always" It may help the display. Unfortunately, you can't control how other users have their prefs set. You can tell ...
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I understand that it is bad practice to try and make faux bold text in any program, whether Photoshop or Illustrator or Indesign. I understand it, but it is also not realistic to an artist. Sometimes you like fonts that don't have a bold option, but they need to be more readable. What do you do then? So it isn't good to apply faux bold in Photoshop because ...
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The problems you describe have been issues with Corel for years. I've run into it working with small specialty engraving shops that have equipment that only understands Corel files so they have to import to Corel.
Your best vector option at this point is to export an RGB version as an EPS (not .AI) in AI8 format. If that can import correctly into X5, you'll ...
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I'd guess that the problem is your starting point for the document. Choose "Web" for the document type rather than Basic RGB, or be very sure the color space is sRGB and not the wider Adobe RGB. Going that route, I see no difference in the output of Export or Save for Web, and wouldn't expect to.
When you Save for Web, you don't see a problem because AI ...
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Try This...
File > Document Set Up
Click each of the color boxes you see there in the Transparency
section. There are 2.
The color picker will pop up when you click the color box
Set both boxes to the grey you want to use for the background.
Click OK
Now choose View > Show Transparency Grid from the menu.
This will show you a grey background on the ...
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Not a complete solution, but this might help someone who's come here from google.
If you save with the 'Save for Web' dialog [File > Save for Web] you can resize during the saving process, the options are on the right hand side under 'Image Size'.
I do this quite often when I need a couple of different sizes for an image, although as the other responses ...
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Apple's Preview application has horrendous issues with some items - spot colors, transparency, overprints, etc. If you see strange behavior in Preview, the first thing you should do is check the PDF in Acrobat or Reader.
That triangle is constructed of several objects all using transparency (Blending modes). Flatten the transparency and it should look as ...
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You find the icon that you want from the thumbnails in the layer list. You can Alt + click that layer to make only that one visible on the canvas to confirm that this is the one you want. You right click the layer you want in the layer list, choose Duplicate layer, in the dialogue that opens up you choose New file in the dropdown, a new tab will open up in ...
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You can't control the line screen within Illustrator. That's an output device option and not a creation software option. For example, your home/office printer may have an LPI setting in the print dialog window, but that controls the output device, and does not change the artwork.
DPI = 1.5 x LPI
That means you need a minimum of 225ppi for most presswork. ...
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If it's existing photography, then there's nothing to anti-alias. It sounds like perhaps you are scaling your raster images up and simply noticing the pixels more at the larger sizes.
Increasing the resolution of a raster image means the software has to make up the missing pixels. That usually results in a less-than ideal result, but sometimes it's ...
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I'd use a modified combination of your steps and Lauren's, with keyboard shortcuts (Windows shown):
Ctrl-S (save source file)
Ctrl-click on mask in layer palette (to set it as selection)
Ctrl-shift-C (copy merged)
Ctrl-N; enter; Ctrl-V (paste into a new image)
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S (Save as web)
Ctrl-F4 to close the new image
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When I export an image from Illustrator, why is it a slightly different color in the exported image?
In Illustrator, are you working in RGB or CMYK? If you're working in a different color profile than the intended end destination you're going to get some variation because of the translation. If you can figure out what your "final destination" is you can apply that in Illustrator and you shouldn't have this problem.
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Below is a "basic" Script-Fu that takes two layer "subsets" and does the "cross-product" of them and exports a PNG for each combination. We have used this to create large numbers of such "button" images.
For example:
Background-1
Background-2
Background-3
Foreground-1
Foreground-2
Factor 1 = "Background" and Factor 2 = "Foreground" Will create 6 ...
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