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Rasterizing vector graphics and applying raster effects

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Rasterizing vector graphics and applying raster effects

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Another important thing to know is how to rasterize something with an illustrator because everything here right now is vector based I just press command or control y to see the outlines that's also by the way from the view menu that's the feature there so I can quickly test whether everything is set up as vectors or not this way and I can see that this is definitely all vector based however if I want to for instance change this astronaut into a roster image within this composition there is a way to do that so I just selected this group and I can go to the object menu and choose rasterize. So this is a feature that I rarely use because if I export something I normally export the entire artwork into jpeg and there I can specify the resolution and the size however in certain cases you might need to rasterize only a specific detail and so this is how you can do it so going to object rasterize you will be able to specify both the color model which is going to be rgb grayscale or bitmap in…

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