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Adobe Illustrator's graphics can be used in so many different ways from creating 3D graphics in external applications such as Maya or Blender, to saving it as graphics that can be used on the Internet. So let me go ahead and show you where you can find these options. They're under the File Menu under either Save As or Export. I'll start off by going to Save As and show you that if I go to this Format drop-down list I can save my documents in the standard Adobe Illustrator File Format, which is. ai, then eps, which stands for Encapsulated Post Script, a pdf, which we should all be familiar with by now, which is simply one of those nice magazines that you'll find online that looks professional with graphics and text, and when you create these kinds of things in Illustrator the people that you send them to don't have to have Illustrator to open them. They just need to have something like Adobe Acrobat, or if you're on a Mac something called Preview, and then they can read that document. You can also use your Illustrator vector artwork in applications such as Blender by choosing to save it as an svg and I use this format all the time to create all kinds of complicated line artwork in Illustrator, bring this into Blender, and then extrude it. I'm going to Cancel this now and go to File, Export and once again we have a Format drop-down and we have a whole bunch of formats that we can choose from. We can choose to save our files as a Portable Network Graphic, BMP, AutoCad Drawings, we can also save it as a Flash Compatible File, which is something I do quite a bit as well when I animate. I like to draw my artwork in Illustrator and then save it as a Flash file and then animate those files inside of Flash. I can also save as a JPEG, which is great for the Web, a Photoshop Document, so that I can bring my layers and everything intact from Illustrator into Photoshop, a TIFF, a Targa, which is good for 3D, Text Format, and more. So Illustrator is very, very versatile. The artwork that you create here can be used in so many other applications that this is a great starting point for artwork that you want to turn into 3D models or then take into Photoshop to do additional special effects, or even animate inside of Flash.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Illustrator CS4
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33974
ISBN: 1-935320-35-1
Release Date: 2009-03-12
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 119 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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