I have an awesomely useful time-saving technique that you can use for logo
designs or just any designs for that matter when you're working in a daily
illustrator so today's video is going to save you a whole lot of time when you're
working on a logo design project but it could also be applied to icon designs
web page graphics or any kind of web graphics for that matter so firstly we
need to make a folder that is going to be our destination folder for all of the
logo files now I'm going to use a previous logo
project as an example for today's video and in that project I designed a logo
for a drone a mechanics company called best boola
the client wanted their logo as a black design but for the purposes of today's
tutorial let's also have a color design on the left because many Legos do you
actually have color and so also you're going to want to send their clients a
black design and also a White's design as well the time-saving tip relates to
saving these designs as SPG's pdfs JPEGs and PNG s all at once with different
scales and transparencies if we can do this in one go it's gonna save us so
much time in our graphic design workflow in
Illustrator so to achieve this we need to make use of the export screens of
function which is right here so firstly let's set up the destination folder and
Link any exports to the exact location now he creates it at a star the video
next notice I have all three designs checked in the export window right here
now this ensures that I'm going to export all three designs with the
relevant dimensions and file formats that we're going to decide very soon the
prefix is going to be the start of the file formats name and so I'm going to
use the title of the brand that I design the label for I'm not gonna leave an
underscore to keep things really neat which you will see later you can then
click the artboards name and i'm gonna type in the color of each design this is
just gonna help me with the file names being fully organized later down the
line as you will soon see
so now that's been completed this is where the real time-saving features come
into play we can add multiple file formats scales and other things like
resolution and dimensions 1x is the exact size of the design and say 2 X is
obviously twice as large and 3x is 3 times as large and so on in the file
formats we have SVG PDF JPEG and all same choices of PNG as well JPEG 100 has
the highest quality of all the JPEG options so we're not ready to have a PNG
exports at the exact scale for all three designs but let's go ahead now some more
the suffix section would also appear in the file label title and that's going to
relate to the scale or the settings that you've decided on in the suffix menu so
I want to export for PNG s and then I'm going to move on to the JPEGs the first
jpg is the exact scale as the original design and so I'm gonna type in at 1x
before we zoom ahead and show you the last parts of this function notes that
right here you can change the layout of the export window which is going to be
helpful when you have many many are boards so I have all of my files ready
and waiting right here and it was actually a really really important
setting that I forgot to mention if you go ahead and click the gear cog icon
you're going to access the file format settings for each file formats so as an
example I probably want the PNG is to be transparent and have no background as
such and so I can set that up for right here in the window I also can change the
SVG settings and also the PDF preset as well so it is really really worth
remembering these settings here as it's going to determine the final outcome for
your design files so we're ready to go and it's just a case of clicking the
export button and I am I have 10 file format settings in place across three
designs so I'm exporting 30 designs all at once
now it really used to despise the process of setting up a client's design
because they may take such a long time to label each design file and then save
it to the relevant file format and so on export screens is such a lifesaver an
illustrator and I hope you can make use of it in your graphic design workflow if
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