I am very new to Illustrator. I've created a text only logo and exported it as a png. When I try to insert it as my email signature it becomes pixelated. How can I export it so it will not lose quality regardless of how small or large i need it to be. (I will also use it for letterhead, business cards and website).  Any help anyone could provide would be much appreciated!! thanks in advance.
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I found a couple useful threads on this forum with respect to the issues posed by (displaying) images in email signatures-- , for example-- and I've searched all over the web, but still have not found a good solution that sufficiently addresses the problem. A client of mine would simply like his company's logo included in the signature of his emails, and the issues I've encountered can be summarized as follows:   I can export a rasterized version of the logo from AI at actual size, and it will look sharp on the desktop but pixelated/blurry on hi-density (e.g. "retina") displays such as the iPhone. As suggested in the thread I referenced, I can export the logo at 2-3 times the actual, displayed size to target the hi-density displays, but the logo will then look soft on non-hi-density displays when it is scaled down. This is a particular problem in this instance as the logo contains text, which looks terrible when juxtaposed with actual text in the browser/email client. I've considered .svg as an option, but apparently the support is not great; and in this case I'm assuming the vast majority of the users reading this client's email will be using Outlook, so something that only renders properly in iOS/webkit/etc is not a viable option.   I'm at a loss at this point and wondering if there is any other possible option out there. I'm not sure, for instance, if it's possible to implement a hi-density image with lo-res fallback in an email signature?  Any suggestions/insights here are much appreciated. It's bordering on comical how difficult this task has turned out to be.
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I am making my son's birthday invitation on illustrator. It looks perfectly fine until I save it for web so it will be a .jpeg so I can print it. Once it is a .jpeg it looks blurry. I am planing to print this like a photo. I have made things like this before just never ran in to a problem like this. How do I fix this so when they are printed it, it will be clear?  Just scared they will come out blurry when I print.
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Is there a way to export my artwork as PDF so that it has a transparent background? Something like exporting objects only... whenever I try to save my .ai as pdf, it always comes with a full white background. If I try to save as eps, I get a chunky white background (where it has white rectangles behind the artwork only where the artwork exists, so there are transparent chunks).  If I export as png, I get an image like what I'm looking for. Is there any way to do that in a vector format?
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I'm trying to create some icons to add to the Glyphicons library.  I've created them using the pen tool (shapes) in Adobe Illustrator CC, they're ultra-basic. As PNG, or EPS they export fine. Unfortunately I need the SVG export to use with Glyphicons.  When I export to SVG, the shapes seem to move around. At very least they don't remain as they appear on my screen.  How can I get them to appear as they do in illustrator?  This is a PNG from inside illustrator.   This is a PNG from preview, this is the SVG.   Clearly the shapes are becoming misaligned after the export, are there any obvious reasons for this? All my export settings are set as default.
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Ok, I have a fresh Illustrator document. Pasted some copied text into the "artboard" (the clipboard is severely broken, but that's for another day).   The textbox that gets pasted is one huge line that goes from here to Timbuktoo.   So I need to resize it to 1/3rd of the page. I presume, as happens in every other sensible tool in the world, the text would flow to the width I give the textbox. The text itself will NOT get resized.   However, this is not what happens. THe text gets scaled completely. No exceptions.   I've been googling for the last 2 hours. Nothing works.    Some posts say I must "show bounding borders". Doesn't help at all. Other posts say some nonsense about main selection tool and direct selection tool. These tools do nothing. Both the arrow-icons, when used to drag the corners of the box, lead to the text getting resized anyway.  Someone suggested that when I copied and pasted text from a text file into Illustrator, this became an object, not actually text. Well, in that case, how should we paste text? Not everyone working on an Illustrator document is always and forever expected to write all the text manually, is it?    Seriously, how does this work? Any preferences I need to change? I used to work with CS4 and I recall it was much easier.   Would appreciate any inputs. Thanks!
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I've edited some images in Photoshop to be used in a .pdf I'm creating in Illustrator. In PS, the images looked great and were saved with the following settings: .jpg/CMYK/Image Options: 10/Maximum. I "placed" them into the Illustrator file, everything still looked great, but when I exported the whole file as .pdf, the images came out slightly blurry. I've used standard, High Quality Print, and Press Quality settings- didn't notice much of a difference between them.  Any ideas on how to have crisp, clean images in the .pdf?
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I have some vector images they I need to add a thick outline similar to the image below.     Is this possible to do quickly and easily in Illustrator?   Note : I have permission/licence to edit and publish the images.
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How can I make a logo in Adobe Illustrator like the AntiParticle logo below, from ?   It is a large number circles of different, varying sizes, which form the shape of a text character.
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Illustrations I create in Procreate show up pixelated at edges despite high resolution when I place them in Indesign.    I'm working on illustrating books for print. It's my first time working on a print project, I usually do digital illustration for the web.  I use Procreate on Ipad Pro for illustrations, and need to place them into Indesign layouts. I do my best to create clean lines in my illustrations, and use a huge resolution as well (each illustration is about 3000x3000px in size), but when I place them in Indesign there's some weird stuff happening with illustration edges. I use 4000x4000 at 300dpi resolution for my canvas. Then export the image as PNG before placing into Indesign.  What am I doing wrong? Maybe it's exactly because the resolution is too high? Or it's a PNG issue?
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I do a lot of work with Illustrator, but I've never been super happy with how my work looks on our website. I've tried various techniques - saving from Illustrator, and opening in Photoshop and saving - but I'm still missing something.  Ed. The logo was only ever supplied as AI. I get the same slightly fuzzy result whether I'm saving for web &amp; devices from Illustrator, or taking the vector into Photoshop. I tend to scale in Illustrator to the required size, and then save for web (inc type optimised - there's text in the logo).
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I'm pretty new to photoshop and illustrator and trying to create a simple text-based logo to use on my web site, for example:   You get wildly different versions of that depending on what browser you use to render the text (which is why I obviously must create the image myself), but for example on Chrome you can already see a blurriness around the edges of the font.  The problem I'm having in Illustrator is that when I write in a certain font (e.g. "Arial Rounded MT Bold" at 24pt), the font looks beautiful and crisp against my background colour at 200% zoom, but I start to see blurring at 100% - then I'm not sure what it is about the 'save to web' process, but the image loses further clarity by the time it ends up on my website (as a 'type optimised' png).  I'd read somewhere that photoshop was better for saving images of text for web, but I see a similar blurriness there even in advance of exporting (and of course a 200% zoom in photoshop just pixelates the image).  So what I'm really lacking is a step-by-step for-dummies type guide of how to get crisp images of text onto a website.  At this point I'm not sure if perhaps I've just chosen a bad colour contrast, or fonts that don't scale well - although I'm also wondering if there's something significant in the fact the font looks beautiful in Illustrator at 200% or larger - perhaps that means I should be exporting the font from Illustrator at a larger size than required and then doing additional downsizing (somehow!) afterwards - although of course again I can't trust web browsers to do that for me.  EDIT: I should also have noted that the effect is much worse on my monitor versus my laptop (tempting to say I have a bad monitor but there's many websites where the monitor version looks fine too!)
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I have a small Problem that occurs from time to time.   Sometimes, when I copy things or when I put an object from the symbol library on my page, the whole file gets messed up. The screenshot shows it. I make the graphic on the right, Illustrator the ones on the left.   I have pixel snapping checked. Is there a way to tell Illustrator to align everything to pixels no matter what?
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I converted a raster image to vector in Illustrator CS6 using Image Trace then the Expand option, though when I save as an svg the image looks embossed. I suspect it's due to the layer background being white and the paths not lining up, but I'm unsure how to fix it or prove that theory without manually having to adjust every path.   This is how it looks in Illustrator before I export it:    The image looks like this when saved/exported with art optimized option:
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I'd like to know how this text gets adapted onto these 3D models. Could it be a PNG  which gets mapped. Or is this text pre planned how it would be layout onto the model? what's the method involved in this technique? Would the text layout need to be the same ratio done with a graphic editor like Photoshop or Illustrator? and have the mesh modelled in the same metric unit so the text can later fall correctly in place? All information is appreciated, unfortunately my college instructors are really lame in giving information....  Thank you.
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I have created a logo with pen tool in Illustrator but between lines (where they intersect with each other) there is a gap where it gets the color of the background.  Something like this:  (Black color is the background color) - As you can see where the paths join each other there is a kinda dotted black line. I Grouped them but still the same. I converted to jpeg just to be sure it is not only shown like that but same effect.   NOTE: I want to export that logo as SVG file type and use it in the WEB. I tried some solutions given like anti-aliasing in preferences or art optimize when saving for optimization. But still I have same problem. I want to get that logo in SVG and put it on the web where it will display clean without those strange gaps.  How can i get rid of this?
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I very recently started learning how to use Adobe Illustrator (CS6), and just now I noticed something strange. When I add a 1pt stroke to my shape, it gets slightly distorted. This distortion does not disappear if I remove the stroke. (But only if I remove the stroke by setting its weight to 0. Using CTRL+Z does return the shape to its former state.)  After adding and removing the stroke a few times, the difference becomes quite noticable:   Am I doing something wrong? Is it a bug? I can't imagine this being the expected behaviour.  EDIT: I think I figured it out. Appearantly, turning 'Align to pixel grid' off doesn't affect previous shapes. If I turn it off and then recreate my shape from scratch, the problem is fixed.   However, I was wondering if their is a way to disable the effect for existing shapes. In other words, can I 'fix' the shapes I created while 'Align to pixel grid' was still on?
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I am working on an illustration for a client who needs it to be very photorealistic. I used illustrator to get as close to his expectation as possible but its not quite there yet.  Can anyone help me with any notes or recommendations on software and/or tools to use to achieve this?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  This is what I came up with:   This is what the client needs it to be like: