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Cheerful_friendship0D4C
Cheerful_friendship0D4C
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April 8, 2020
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illustrator + exporting images = blurry

  • April 8, 2020
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I'm having an issue with exporting a logo from illustrator to png. My document raster effects setting is at 600 ppi, my document is set to high resolution. When I open the image (4" wide -- fonts converted to outline) the image looks fine. When I drop it into an email it looks like garbage. Just good old apple mail and I have never had this problem before. Any suggestions welcome! (blurry image is what I dropped into my mail program, the other is the actual image. This could be a compression issue with mail, but wanted to make sure before I went down that path. 

 

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

It looks fine when I drop your first image into an Apple mail message.

Did you select Actual size in the message?

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gunters
Participant
May 14, 2020

I have the same issue - working either in Photoshop or InDesign... Exporting (with legacy or export as) as PNG or JPG results in very blurry results. I've been doing this for 10+ years w/o any issues. I'm using InDesign 24.1.2 (64bit) on Windows. I tried the same with InDesign 24.0.1 (64bit) on Windows and there it perfectly works. PNG and JPG are sharp. Same settings. So, I assume it's a general issie 😞

    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Ton FrederiksCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    April 8, 2020

    It looks fine when I drop your first image into an Apple mail message.

    Did you select Actual size in the message?

      Cheerful_friendship0D4C
      Cheerful_friendship0D4CAuthor
      Participant
      April 9, 2020

      OMG. Duh and duh to me. Thanks for helping to find my brain today! 🙂 

      Ton Frederiks
      Community Expert
      Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 9, 2020

      Good to hear you've got it solved!

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      federico platon
      Legend
      April 8, 2020

      Raster effects settings is for raster effects (Blur, Drop shadow,...) used with vector art.

      Plays no effect when exporting vector artwork to a raster (pixel based) format.

      How do you control de resolution of artwork exported as PNG ?

      Using the command File>Export>Export As

      There you have some settings like Resolution that will have an impact you will see in the exported raster format file.

      Try to use 72/150/300 ppi and compare the difference in quality (and also on size). 

      You can also used the legacy, but valid and useful Export>Save for Web option.

       

        Cheerful_friendship0D4C
        Cheerful_friendship0D4CAuthor
        Participant
        April 9, 2020

        Thanks for the response! That's how I typically save my PNG's when I'm not making a web graphic. I'm wondering if it's something with apple mail compressing the items. 

         

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