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Jan 1, 2019 1:36 PM UTC
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HORRIBLE quality Vector Image

I purchased a license for a vector image and when I downloaded it the quality is horrible - -hardly looks like the same image! Anyone else experience that? Can I get a refund of that photo credit so I can find something that's actually usable??  the file was: AdobeStock_63099267. Supposed to be smooth swirly smoke, and instead it's all bulky pixelated.... yuck.

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Abambo
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Jan 1, 2019 5:03 PM UTC

Thanks. I used two conversion sites:

https://www.zamzar.com/convert/ai-to-jpg/

and https://ai-to-jpg.file-converter-online.com/

And the image that worked just fine is this one; AdobeStock_175946678

I really don't want to spend $10 to license a single image that I need additional software at $$$ to use.


I've downloaded the asset and checked in Illustrator: it is a correct illustrator file.

You will probably need to set the resolution to a very high value, as the physical size of the asset is rather small (11.424 x 13.855 mm ; 0.45 x 0.545 in). A higher resolution will compensate for the small size.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Abambo
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Jan 1, 2019 1:41 PM UTC

What program did you use to visualize the grafic art?

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Ingenium Books
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Jan 1, 2019 1:44 PM UTC

I don't have AI on my Mac, but the finder allows me to view the image as a sort of preview after download - it looks awful there. Then I used an online ai - jpg conversion platform, two different ones actually, and it still looks awful. This was one of two vector images I bought licenses for the same day... the other one is perfectly fine in all the same environments.

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Abambo
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Jan 1, 2019 2:07 PM UTC

Your workflow may be the problem more then anything else. The preview is often a low res picture. That may be correct. Your on-line conversion could fail with this specific data.

I didn’t download the asset in question, but the first impression of that asset seamed to be good.

Could you please post the link of your conversion site? And I would also like to know what asset was correctly converted. This would help looking for potential problems.

In addition I suggest that you aquire Adobe Illustrator (or a similar program able to read the vector graphics) to make best use of all the vector assets you buy. You can install, to start, a 7 day test version of Illustrator.

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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer