

If you’re designing for iOS, and designing at 1x, you’ll want to make sure that any raster images you import are scaled at 3x (3 times the size they are in your Adobe XD design), and for Android, 400% (or 4x). Be careful about simply importing overly large images each time you need an image, since large file sizes can slow down load time. In the case of an image for a website, if your image spans the entire width of a 1920 x 1080 artboard, you’ll want to ensure that your image is 3840 pixels across (twice the width of the intended use in XD). It’s best to edit your raster images in a program like Adobe Photoshop to be the maximum size you need, before you import them into XD. The sizing is especially important if you will later need to export production-ready assets for a website or app. This option to change the resolution is really only useful if you want to reduce the resolution, for example you are preparing some artwork for screen based use at 72PPiĪre you looking to learn about more of the great features in Adobe Illustator?Īt Creative studios in Derby we have a number of Adobe Training Courses for all levels of ability and need.If you’re designing using the default artboard sizes (1x), you need to pay attention to the sizing of any raster images (JPG, GIF, PNG) you import into your design. There are more cropping options in your Control bar, you can specify the resolution for the cropped image, the maximum you can specify is the resolution of the original image. Then you will see some active corners on the image that you can drag around to define how the image will be cropped you can drag these in and out and also move the image until the desired part is visible on your Adobe Illustrator Artboard. If you are attempting to crop a linked image an alert will pop up prompting you to embed the image after you have cropped it, this is the only way this tool will work, unless you embed the image you wont be able to crop it and disguard the unwanted part. Then select the image with your main selection tool and then in your control bar you will see an option for ‘Crop Image’ To crop an image in Adobe Illustrator you firstly need to place it on to your artboard by going to File>Place.
