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Working with Asset Export

Working with Asset Export - Illustrator Tutorial

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Working with Asset Export

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- [Instructor] The quickest way to export elements, groups of elements, and even entire layers to multiple rendition sizes, is with Illustrator's Asset Export. If I just open the Layers panel here, in this file I've got an Icons layer, and I've got four pieces of named content inside of that layer. What I'm going to do is to click, and then Shift click to select that range of sub-layers there. And then I'm going to click this icon at the bottom left of the Layers panel, Collect for Export. And just before I do that, if I had the layers themselves highlighted, it would export the entire layer. So if I click on that, it opens the Asset Export panel, and automatically loads in those elements. And here's one of the benefits of naming those elements in the Layers panel, I don't have to worry about doing that again. Once that's done, all I need to do is to choose the different renditions I'd like. So I've got one times PNG here. If I add a scale, we'll have that three times, or two times…

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