Hey everyone, I recently entered a grpahic contest but i'm having a issue. The ocntest was to create a diploma design, well I did and turn out nicely but problem is I made it in Adobe Illustrator so when I save it, it is saved as a .ai Now how would I upload this or whatever to post my entry in the thread, I tried exporting it as a jpeg and uplaoding it with photobucket and it comes up as a box with a red X. Someone please help!

Thanks
BrandBurnMedia

Below the quick reply box it says go advanced... click on that and then scroll down till you find manage attachments .... you can submit in the following formats bmp doc gif jpe jpeg jpg pdf png psd txt zip, in Illustrator you can save the document as an Adobe pdf which should be fine, however so you don't lose the original create another document and paste the file before saving as a pdf

Okay well that helped but now it says it's 800kb.......how do I make it 100...ugh lol.

It's saved as a .pdf now also.

Have you tried making a copy of it and importing in photoshop and saving as a jpeg or png?

I have a jpeg copy on this computer, a pdf copy and a ai copy. When I uplaoded jpeg in photobucket was the red X box, should I try uploading it as a attachment in forums?

Tried Jpg one and is 521.2KB.........ugh

Originally Posted by BrandBurnMedia

Tried Jpg one and is 521.2KB.........ugh

Under the File menu, select "Save for Web"

From there you can adjust the quality settings to bring down your filesize.

If you have "IrfanView", you can re-size any pic in seconds and save it in whatever format you need.

Yah.. Irfanview is da bomb for a freebie !!