: Is my logo that I made with Adobe Illustrator already a vector file when saved as .ai? I have designed a logo in Adobe CS5.1 Illustrator using the ellipse tool to create shapes, filled with

@Tiffany317

If you haven't used any special effects, you should be good, but as Scott said, all special effects will Flatten to Raster (pixels).

The Flattening settings will also effect what gets Rasterized on export.
If you're not sure, use the Flattening Preview.

You can manually Flatten an object be selecting it and going to Object / Flatten Transparency


Note the extra box on the bottom example. The Drop Shadow will be rastor inside that shape. Illustrator is basically 'boxing-out' the shadow, which will be made of pixels, not Vector art.





You can also switch to Outline View (Command + Y).
Anything you can see in Outline View will be Vector. Any object that is just a box, or not displayed (like Effects) is not Vector.

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@Murray976

There's no way to know for certain without seeing the actual file.

As a guess, I'd say yes, most likely.

Just because you used Illustrator does not automatically mean everything is vector. If you used, blurs, feathers, glows, drop shadows, placed images, photoshop effects within Illustrator, etc. - none of that is vector.

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@Jamie315

Yes.
if you increase the size of your shapes, the quality doesn't reduce. But If you save your Logo in JPG or PNG, It will not more be a vector. If you are going to zoom your PNG or JPG file, You'll see the tiny boxes which are actually pixels

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