: Illustrator image viewed at 100% is "tiny" I'm a web developer and I love Photoshop but unfortunately I have some design mock-ups sent over to me in Illustrator. When I viewed the document

@BetL875

The good news is that "screen resolution" doesn't really exist in an Illustrator document. Since most of what you see is vector data (text and graphics), you can scale the whole shebang to whatever looks right to you. The art could look tiny on your screen for various reasons, but I suspect there's a huge art board with relatively tiny art on it. When you Ctrl-0 (Cmd-0) to fit on screen, if the artwork is still tiny then that's the problem.

If you have Illustrator CS5, select the Art Board tool and change the size of the art board to fit the artwork, then at 100% it will fill the window. If you have CS4 or earlier, first make sure nothing in the Layers panel is locked (twirl down the layer triangle(s) and verify no objects are locked), then Ctrl/Cmd-A to select everything. Grab one corner handle and Shift-Alt/Option drag the artwork to scale it up to the size of the artboard.

I would take a modest bet that the designer wasn't thinking with screen resolutions or pixel dimensions, just the relative sizes of the objects in the layout. As the web dev, you should make your own best judgment call on dimensions, based on the text in the mock-up and how 1 em for your <p> tag text compares to the designer's mockup.

Since you're the guy who knows the web, you should provide input in terms of recommending the best page width, font-size, etc. (As a designer, if I hand off a design to a web developer I expect and value that kind of feedback. As a web dev, that's what I do with designs I'm handed by others. That includes saying things like, "Your header is too tall for the average screen dimensions of the people who visit your site.")

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@LarsenBagley460

It's possible the person who drew the designs didn't think about art board size. I would probably zoom in so that the paragraph fonts (if there are any) are roughly 10 to 12pt compared to Photoshop. Without fonts, it may be difficult to gauge the desired size.

It depends on what is in the mock-up as to what you can use to estimate the size on screen.

If all else fails, send them an e-mail...

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