HOW TO REDUCE FILE SIZE IN ILLUSTRATOR ((SOLVED))

If you need to know how to reduce file size in Illustrator, tune in to todays short but sweet tutorial, where I am going to show you 6 ways that you can reduce file size, in Adobe Illustrator.

It’s Tom with Satori Graphics back with another Illustrator tutorial. Reducing file size in Illustrator is crucial and important for various reasons. Having large files can slow or crash your machine, it takes up space and memory, and sending large files to clients looks unprofessional, and it can causes issues their end.
So today I am going to show you how to reduce file size in Illustrator. There are also plugins that can help with this, but often they are not free and sometimes very expensive, more than a copy of Adobe Illustrator!

So, I hope my tips in todays tutorial do help you in reducing file size on your graphic design documents, within Illustrator.

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[sebastiandamian]

Man, I am a Graphic Design Student and I have tons of projects and this video saved me a lot of frustrations and hours into solving the size issues.!!!

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0:35 action: delete unused panels
0:57 raster effect settings: resolution
1:36 semplify path
2:09 symbols
2:58 saving options: uncheck create pdf compatible file
3:24 flatten transparency

[calebgates]

Initially, my file was 101 Mb! Went through all of your tips, applied your methods one by one. Eventually, my file size came to around 172 Mb. Thanks a lot, pal!

[anastasiastallcop]

If you've a ton of high quality images (masked or unmasked), rasterize them at 300dpi (save a copy of OG for later use), this reduced my 5x7 card from 1.02GB to 23MB

[SatoriGraphics]

Have a great day everyone, and hope that you have found this tutorial useful 🌍✌

[srinivasnahak]

That ticking of compatible for pdf did the wonders for me and also the last tip about flatten transparency

[maypl]

Love this! Delete unused panels action worked great for me. So did unchecking create compatible PDF file. Thank you! Files went from 11 Mb down to 2 Mb :)

[pawpower]

This significantly helped with a job I am currently working on. The file was so high I could hardly do anything. Thank you I am going to share with the other designers in the company.

[domdidit]

Nice, quick answers - no fluff - Mad Effort!

[riyana]

Thank You so much!!!! It was such a great help as I was struggling for this for so long. Thanks again!! <3

[HectorMarceloMercado]

Thank you for your tutorial, some time we need to retrain to get back on track on Illustrator, I appreciate your instructions, thank you very much!

[Singularity-vpxo]

From the bottom of my heart...thank you so damn much. I have a hand in 4 hours, I have not been able to animate my one file, because it was to big for after-affects to just saved my project thank you, so, so, so

[shadowhousedigitalworks]

This helped BIG TIME. Thanks for the content.

[hazmanrostam]

This isnt just useful. But technically very crucial for any workflow to be done efficiently. Big Thanks!

[akashsarkar]

sir what does this Create PDF compatible file do?? i turned off this setting & my file size reduced from 17mb to less than 2mb.. Thank you so much master.. this trick is awesome even file saving much faster.. Thank you once again

[rimashaji]

Reducing raster effects is saved me.
Thank you

[janus]

Nice tips Tom ! Thank you very much my friend ;)

[StevenRud]

Very well made video, nicely explained... subscribed have to give those tips a try tomorrow morning, since today we were really going bonkers with a simple download-icon which was 2, 5Mb big after saving it from Illustrator and imported it into InDesign. The icon is only 5x5mm big in ID and we worked with the actual dimensions in Illustrator, too... can’t explain why such a small icon can use 2, 5Mb....

So I hope your tips will help...

Cheers,
Steven

[elyariti]

thank you that was a great tutorial :)

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