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Peter Hearne
Peter Hearne
6,803 Points
Posted by Peter Hearne
Peter Hearne
6,803 Points

Adobe Illustrator cs6

Heyy im newish to adobe illustrator and im wondering as said in the moonwalker video series that AI creates an image format that isnt pixel based, is there a way to export images such as jpg or png that are not pixelated? as when i zoom in on a jpg or png there are pixels

3 Answers

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

Yes, the format you are looking for is probably SVG ! And indeed, It's available in Illustrator.

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

Illustrator CS5 and CS6 include a feature called "image trace", if I remembered the name correctly. With this feature, Illustrator traces over the image in some oh so magical way, duplicating the colors it finds, changing the image to a vector based graphic.

I have to go, will explain more when I'm home.

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

Alright.. You can change a vector based image into a raster based image, but can't exactly do it vice versa. Changing the extension for an image does change it's format Georg Beyer