Save and export considerations
To round out this book, we’ll now cover some of my own recommended settings for outputs of various types. This is more of a summary than a tour, so I’ll make it relatively brief in the form of a bulleted list, which we will expand on in the following subsections:
- Saving for printed magazine adverts
- Saving and exporting for email-friendly PDFs
- Exporting for the web
- Saving for CNC cutters and engravers
- Exporting for print-on-demand websites
Saving for printed magazine adverts
Most magazines want 300 DPI or better for pixel graphics. I usually send exactly 300 DPI at whatever physical dimensions the page of the magazine is. Generally, they will want a PDF document, which you can choose from the Export dialog, or File > Save As, if you want a multipage document.
If the publisher requires CMYK conversion prior to sending, you’ll need to export your file as a 300 DPI PNG and do your PDF export in...
