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August 22, 2010
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Rasterizing artwork?

  • August 22, 2010
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Why would you rasterize artwork in Illustrator?

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    August 22, 2010

    I just thought of another reason to rasterize: Microsoft Word and Powerpoint.

    Inspiring
    August 22, 2010

    On a mc at least there is no reason that I see to send a file to Word or Office as a raster image. These are placed ai files they retain the transparency and the file placed in Powerpoint was dragged and dropped from my desktop.

    There re however reasons you might want to raster art. Say you wanted to resize art and give it a crude photo look or just give it a photo look or if you wanted to use some features in Illustrator that only work on images and there are a few, like  Create Mosaic then you might  do this as well.

    Here by the way are ai files placed in Word and Power point I now recoomend only using .ai format to export to Word or Powerpoint at least on the Mac.

    Pdf would be the other way but apparently only on the Mac unless that has change with Office 2010.

    mediafredAuthor
    Participant
    August 22, 2010

    Hi everyone,

    I do not mean rasterizining the artwork after you are done workng in AI, I am referring to selecting artwork while it is still in AI and rasterizing it there. Object > Rasterize

    Why would you do that? Possibly as Wade suggested, to create a certain look after scaling it?

    August 22, 2010

    I rasterize when I send a proof to my customer(s).  I usually Export > As a .tiff > then convert to a PS.pdf.  Aside from the previous suggestion, a rasterized version would allow the recipient to view the file without being able to edit.

    markerline
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2010

    One reason off the top would be to prepare it for work in Photoshop, though I think CS5 has Smart Paste so you can copy and paste directly from Illustrator. . . . I think, not sure.