Reduce background around logo...how?

[Guest]

Hy guys,

still some questions about how Illustrator works for my small needs. I have a logo that is centered on the artboard but with tones of white background all around. If I export my logo, it will fit very small in the final image. What I want is:

1) reduce the with background around or

2) create a new artboard and copy and paste my logo

Here is my situation: http://prntscr.com/l1de7u

How can I do please?

Thanks

[SJRiegel]

select just your logo

choose the artboard tool

at the top of the page, choose Fit to Selected Art

the artboard will resize itself to fit your logo.

[Guest]

mine doesn't fit I don't know why... If I select the artboard and then object - adapt to it's doesn't work

[SJRiegel]

select the artboard  tool. If Fit to Selected Art doesn't work, try just grabbing the corners of the artboard and resizing it.

[Guest]

i have this huge amount of white around the logo in an artboard that is 550px x 370px ok? See here: http://prntscr.com/l22sxx

Then, I would like to reduce this white and try to fit the logo to all the borders with just a little of white so that if I want to enlarge my image, I don't have a 4000x4000 image where the logo is small in the middle of the photo hope to explain me

As you told me, I grab the corners of the artboard and resize it second my needs (btw, how can I obtain a perfect rectangle or square when reduce the artboard?) see here --> http://prntscr.com/l22tzv but then what to do? I can't cut, I can't copy I can't do anything!

Or is it possible to take my logo and copy to another artboard from scratch? 

[Jacob Bugge]

daniele,

Or is it possible to take my logo and copy to another artboard from scratch?

That should be possible.

[Guest]

Should or its the solution? I can't even copy it to another artboard

[Jacob Bugge]

daniele,

Is the logo a raster image?

If it is, you may reduce it to a rectangular shape with transparent/white background depending on format by cropping (easier in Photoshop), and the Artboard can be fit.

But obviously, the logo should be in vector format.

[Guest]

Yes it is a vector logo yes

[Jacob Bugge]

Daniele,

In that case you should be able to select it by clicking it with the Selection Tool (black arrow), unless it is locked or something else is hindering you; you should be able to see the artwork and whatever in the Windows>Layers palette with the relevant layer(s) expanded.

It may help if you show a screenshot of the artwork with the Layers palette also shown, and preferably also the Appearance palette.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

I think I solved doing this: create a new AI file with an artboard size like 1920 x 1080. Inside of it, I paste the copied object from the original file and adapt in it. So now, I have the logo with the desire size and amount of white and space all around. It's ok like this or?

Just another small and quick question: I tested then this new file and if I export for web in a large size (3840x2116 like...) I have an excellent quality but If I saved it in like 1020 x 500 for example quality is awful and super "pixellated" ... isn't it a vector image that I can resize like I need without quality lost? Sorry but I'm new to this world but I need this logo so bad

[SJRiegel]

Your original image is vector, but when you save for web, you are saving in a pixel format.

[Guest]

Ok right but if I save for web and enlarge it no problem, if I reduce big problems...

[John Mensinger]

When rasterizing, fewer pixels (smaller size) = lower quality (or at least more coarseness).

Here's one way to visualize it:

Suppose you had to arrange a particular number of postage stamps in a circle.

Picture the circle you'd make if you were given 1000 stamps.

Now picture a circle for which you were only given 8 stamps.

[Guest]

I know that's my fault but I still don't understand a thing: if I use vectorized image on AI, if I reduce the ai file like 200x200 and export, why I loose quality? And why, if I export in png format an AI file for example that is 800x800 in like 300x300 the result is awful? Is there a way to fix this directly on AI?

[Monika Gause]

If there are only 200x200 pixels in your png then there is no chance to display any more detail. One pixel in a raster image can have one color.

Please learn about raster images vs. vector images. Raster graphics - Wikipedia

Vector graphics - Wikipedia