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Export options

Export options

Now apart from SVG most other file formats that are used on the web would be raster based and that includes png, gif and jpeg and all of these can be found in a couple of different ways so if you want to export to these raster formats you would want to go to the file menu and instead of using the save as command which is mainly for the vector based file formats you would want to go to export and then here you can choose export for screens, export as or save for web and most of the file formats I mentioned can be found in all of these but you will have slightly different options in how you save them. So let's start with save for web which is a legacy feature but this is the one that includes the gif file format but this is still a useful one where you have quite a lot of options available here on the right side and you can even create slices if you want to save an illustration into multiple different files so sections of it to be saved separately and we have lots of presets we can use…

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