Downsizing my work without loss of quality in Illustrator

[Guest]

I created a logo on a 4 x 3 inch artboard and want to place it on a business card, but when I shrink it, it becomes a blob. How can I shrink the logo without loosing the image quality?

Thanks,

Dave

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[Test Screen Name]

Just scaling should work. How do you shrink it? How do you view it as a blob - I mean are you viewing in Photoshop, Acrobat, or on paper, or the final card?

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for reaching out. You can use the scale tool to resize. For more information on Scale Tool I found a helpful article which you can refer to: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/scaling-shearing-distorting-objects.html

Let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

Regards

Rishabh

[Ton Frederiks]

Did you check: Scale Strokes and Effects in the transform panel / scale dialog?

[meganchi]

Does your logo have a lot of detail in it? That might also cause it to look like a blob when shrinking. Can we see what your logo looks like before you reduce its size?

[Guest]

Megan,

I was able to resize it for a business card thanks to all of the responses in the forum. I have attached the logo, but do you know how to paste it properly into a signature in Mac Outlook 2011. When I do it looks great, but when I close the edit and open a new email the logo come out as a small ? in a small box. It doesnt look very nice here too! Thanks, Dave      

[Peter Villevoye]

Select the lot and try using Export Selection and use the PNG format.

You can even add some extra sizes, to generate multiple sizes of the logo.

[rcraighead]

If you simply want to use your logo in different sizes turn it into a "Static Symbol". Static Symbols scale proportionally regardless of the preference settings.