Basic Illustrator Help

[miiles]

Sooo...

I'm new to Illustrator, and I'm trying to export an image I've made but I don't want it to export the portions I drew outside of the borders from the original image.

Does this make any sense?

I'm trying to get it to export just what is inside the box, not what I drew outside of it.

I've only been able to get it the way I want if I save it as a PDF, open it with Preview, and save it as a .png. I know there has to be a better way to do this.

The images with shorter tails on the s' are the way I would like to save it, and the images with the long ones are the only way I can.

[motoxpress]

You can use "Slices" to export a certain portion of an image. The simple way of doing this is to draw a box around the area you want to export and then go to "Object->Slice->Make". Then in the export for web dialog, you can choose just to export selected slices.

-mx

[miiles]

You can use "Slices" to export a certain portion of an image. The simple way of doing this is to draw a box around the area you want to export and then go to "Object->Slice->Make". Then in the export for web dialog, you can choose just to export selected slices.

-mx

Thanks! I'll try it right now.

[miiles]

When I do this it looses the size of the image, am I doing something wrong?

[motoxpress]

Not sure what you mean by "looses the size of the image". Please explain.

-mx

[jerryrock]

Are you using the crop area tool?

[miiles]

Moto, thanks for the help.

What I meant was it made it a smaller image for some reason.

Jerryrock, that was it, I wasn't.

Thanks for that, that was my problem.

[motoxpress]

Np. Good luck.

-mx

[miiles]

Thanks, I opened Illustrator today for the first time, I think I did a pretty good job for my first little drawing thing.