Illustrator and blur? Why does it take so long to save?

[Riskok]

Is it so hard for illustrator to save blures?

BR Patrik

 

[Vinylman]

I am not sure I fully understand what you are questioning.

But if you have created a 'blur" effect such as a drop shadow, there is a LOT of information contained in the file to create the blur so you don't see all the gradations when printing. Therefore, the file is usually very large, and if you don't have a very fast {newer} computer it can take a little bit extra time. I know "bluring" slows my computer down a great deal. Especially when you change something, then want to preview the change.

 

[Mason]

The "Blur" effect in Illustrator is essentially a Photoshop filter, Illustrator is a vector based program relying upon a raster based (PS) filter to achieve a result. It has to rasterize the portion of the image which is being blurred, this takes memory and time to achieve.

 

[Riskok]

OK then I know that I´m not alone.
Maybe Adobe will try to update these things for CS5 ore so.

BR Patrik

 

[Joe Diaz]

I don't know about illustrator, but in corel it takes longer the larger the image you are trying to blur is.

 

[The Vector Doctor]

OK then I know that I´m not alone.
Maybe Adobe will try to update these things for CS5 ore so.

BR Patrik

It is mostly based on how powerful your machine is and not the software. All of these special effects do nothing more than add complexity to the file

 

[beermonster]

a word of warning on blurs

lets pretend you have an image with a drop shadow blur - its portrait for this example.

you decide to make the shadow nudged right and down from the object ok.

THEN you decide to step this over a sheet and the best way to fit is to rotate all the graphics and step up

DANGER DANGER

the drop shadows will NOT rotate properly and be in the right place (same in indesighn)

they will most probably VIEW in the same place - ie: nudged right and down - but you've just rotated the graphics remember

so - in summery, summary or as a conclusion: rotate shadows and stuff with caution

also saving speeds depend on how high a setting you have in the raster setting fields