Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
You do need to look at how aligning to the pixel grid affects artwork. For instance, text
converted to outlines may change appearance.
13.
Click the Transform panel menu icon ( ). Notice that Align New Objects To Pixel
Grid is selected. If this document were created using a Print profile, it would
not
be
selected. Press the Escape key to hide the Transform panel.
This option sets all new artwork to be aligned to the pixel grid automatically.
14.
Choose Select > Deselect (if available), and then choose File > Save.
Slicing content
If you create artwork on an artboard and choose File > Save For Web, Illustrator creates a
single image file the size of the artboard. You can create multiple artboards for artwork, each
containing a piece of the web page, like a button, and save each artboard as a separate image
file.
Note
To learn more about creating slices, search for “Create slices” in Adobe
Illustrator Help (Help > Illustrator Help).
You can also design your artwork on an artboard and slice the content. In Illustrator, you can
create
slices
to define the boundaries of different web elements in your artwork. For
example, if you design an entire web page on an artboard and there is a vector shape that you
want to save as a button for your website, that artwork can be optimized in GIF or PNG
format, while the rest of the image is optimized as a JPEG file. You can isolate the button
image by creating a slice. When you save the artwork as a web page using the Save For Web
command, you can choose to save each slice as an independent file with its own format and
settings.
Next, you will create a new layer that will contain the slices and then you will create slices
for different parts of the artwork.
1.
Click the Layers panel icon ( ) to open the Layers panel. Click to select the Header
layer. Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the Create New Layer button (
) at the bottom of the Layers panel. In the Layer Options dialog box that appears,
change the name of the layer to
Slices
and click OK. Make sure that the new layer
named Slices is selected.
