HELP

By: madeyalook | May 8, 2008 |  4

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I am having trouble making my art small enough is size to fit to be able to sumbit. i made my illustrator file a jpeg. its only 2 inches by 2 inches, and it still is around 600 kb. can anyone help me?

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if you did it on illustrator you must know that you’re using CMYK colors so put in on RBG on photoshop and save it that’s all i did =o]

By: yuraccypark
posted: May 08, 2008 at 06:18 PM

Hi madeyalook…

Thanks for joining Artevist. We’re looking forward to seeing your work.  Here are a few tips:

‘yuraccypark’ is correct that if you’re using Illustrator, you should be in RGB Colour mode otherwise your colours may not appear as they do on your monitor.

Once you’re done designing, simply copy and paste your design into Photoshop. There you can resize it to the 500x500 pixel dimension, and also make any minor adjustments to canvas size, etc. I usually design on a square background in Illustrator so that I can see what it will look like, and any re-sizing in Photoshop is really easy.

Last step is to ‘File/Save for Web’ where you can then choose various formats and quality. Choose jpeg and a quality level somewhere between 60-80. Higher than that only produces minimal improvements in visual quality, and just makes the file bigger. By doing this, you shouldn’t have any problems getting your image to an acceptable size. The average for submissions we’ve received is about 90 kb.

There are other ways of doing this, but this seems to be the easiest for me anyway.

Hope that helps.

Eric

By: EricW
posted: May 08, 2008 at 09:29 PM

i have that problem too helllllllllp

By: riklab
posted: May 10, 2008 at 02:19 AM

hey riklab. make sure its an RGB file like yuraccypark told me. if you make it an RGB jpeg, it should shrink in file size alot.

By: madeyalook
posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:10 AM