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ngdawg: Ah yes, the pen tool. Everyone's favorite thing. Either post here or PM me an e-mail address and I'll send you a small pen tool tutorial that I wrote for my job. It's a good start, then it's just practice, practice and mo' practice. I'll send the tutorial to whoever wants it. It's done in Illustrator 9.0.
To make a JPG... there are actually several ways. (I use a PC, so some of these directions will be PC specific)
1. If you just want a basic JPG of your drawing, you can take a screen shot by hitting Ctrl + Print Screen. First make sure the page tiling, artboard, guides & grid ect are not viewable. Open Photoshop (or other photo manipulation prog) and paste (Ctrl +V) the screenshot, crop in on your artwork, flatten image, and save as a JPG. This is how I did the one I posted in this topic.
2. Simply open your Illustrator file in Photoshop. When opening it, you will get a dialogue box that askes about size and resolution. Choose the options you want, and Photoshop will rasterize it for you. Then save as a JPG.
3. In Illustrator, go to File >> Export. You will choose a name and place to save it, and a format (in this case JPG) then a new box will appear with the resolution options for the JPG. This one you'll have to set high or else it will really chunk down the quality.
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