Adobe Illustrator Tutorial : LARC 440

Adobe Illustrator not only allows you to save your artwork, but also allows you to export your artwork as a file type that can be used in other applications.

Use the save commands files in their native Illustrator format, use the Save, Save As or Save as Copy commands. To save an Illustrator document in another file formats, you must use the export commands.

Saving Ilustrator Files:

There are several ways to save files:

The Save command saves the file with its current name, location, and file format.

The Save As command lets you save an alternate version of the file with a different name, location, or file format.

The Save a Copy command saves an identical copy of the file, with the word copy added to the file name.

Note: The Save a Copy command leaves the original file as the active one.

Exporting Illustrator Files:

To use an Adobe Illustrator file in another application, you often need to export it in a format that another application recognizes as a valid.

You could rasterize an a piece of vector artwork and export it as a JPEG image into Photoshop, for instance. One thing this would allow for, is the application of bitmap image filters to your artwork.

To export an Ilustrator file in another format choose File>export, and then choose the kind of file you want to export your artwork as.