Using .ai files

dshoe

This past year in high school I took a digital imaging class that taught us how to use the basics of Photoshop and Illustrator, I quickly got a knack for Illustrator (the pen tool is fantastic) so I decided to start making graphics for one of my games on it. Well I finished my image and then realized there was no way for gamesalad to read .ai files, so i opened it in photoshop and it read it as a pdf and wanted the size to bee somewhere around 1000x1000 when I set it to around 300x300 in Illustrator. When I leave the size as it is and save it as a jpg and then pull it into GS the file is HUGE but good quality, I can scale it down and it doesn't look too bad. If I try to set the size to 300x300 when I open the .ai file, after I pull it into GS it gets super tiny (about 20x20) and gets really pixelated when I try to scale it up, even though when I open it on my computer it is the right size at great quality. Does anyone have any experience with using .ai files in GS?

dshoe

Thanks tshirt, you are always so quick to reply I tried it and it works, you are a G!

SnowAppleMint

You can export your images from illustrator as various bitmap files (jpeg, png, gif...) Just make sure your original Illustrator document resolution is 72.

SingleSparq

Or just copy from illustrator and paste to photoshop. Starting a new file in ps will be the size of the ai item you copied.