: How to export PNGs of parts of Illustrator CS6 ai files? I am a total newbie to Illustrator, though I've been working with Photoshop for years. I've been trying to figure out how to mimic

@Dunderdale640

Another way to export parts of a file is to use the Slice tool. Use the Slice tool to cut the file into peaces and then use file>Save for Web in the lower right hand corner there is a drop down menu labeled Export in this menu make sure that the All User Slices option is selected hit save and off you go. just a note the Save for Web command uses the name of the file as the start of the exported file name so you will have to rename the exported files with unique names

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@Miguel516

Illustrator and Photoshop have the same "Save for Web" module, therefor you shouldn't have any issues exporting PNG's using same shortcuts (the only extra bit for the save for web module is a "use artboards" option. It also has layers as Photoshop...


a) Open your file.
b) Put each piece or set of pieces you need to export separately in a different layer.
c) show/hide the different layers (just as you'd do in Photoshop) as
needed.
d) Save for Web (for each desired content state), select the PNG24
option.
e) Save it, and ready.


As for artboards, this is where you can find the tool

The idea of using artboards on that tutorial was meant to save "time" exporting several different PNG's from a single document, since each artboard can be exported as different files which avoids you from creating a document for each from the beginning. (Art boards are also used for files that need pagination, like PDF's and such, each artboard would be treated as a single page of the document, etc...)

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