illustrator help, please!!
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- dc
being a programmer/geek and not a designer, i'm in desperate need of some help regarding illustrator and/or creating small logos.
i wanted to create a small logo - an outline of an atari joystick - for a site. so i got myself a copy of illustrator, and after hours of clicking on things, managed to get the kind of thing that i wanted. i figured it needs to be quite small, so resized it and saved it. it looks shit.
"its because you resized it" i thought. so i created it at the desired size this time, and saved it. it still looks shit.
can anyone tell me why? it just looks so 'pixelated'. is there something special i should do when saving it? is it simply coz its so small and it won't get any better? am i using the right package (illustrator)? or, am i being to picky, and actually it doesn't look *that* bad?
any help would be absolutely brilliant.
the shitty illustration (two of them) is here:
http://www.dannycallaghan.com/sh…thanks in advance for the wise-designer-words.
- blastofv0
hey dc... doesn't look so bad to me, but some things to consider:
vector illustrator files are always going to be crisp... the pixelation comes when you convert it to a JPG or GIF for the internet. Once you do that, you're dealing with pixels...
Copy+paste it into photoshop at the EXACT size you're looking for, at 72 dpi, and you'll get your cleanest result.
If you're going really small, then you'll lose quality at 72 dpi
- dc0
thanks blastofv, i'll give that a try.
anyone else?
- unknown0
with somethin tiny like that and as its an atari joystick, I'd do it it pixel by pixel... give it the pixel art look.
- fuckfascists0
theres no need to copy and paste into photoshop
just make it the size that you want and go to save for web.
you can change the settings there to make it however you want. keep it as a gif.i think it looks fine really.