How can I increase the quality of exported PNG/JPEG/GIF in Adobe Illustrator?

Whenever I view an image or graphic in Illustrator it is crisp and really sharp (because Illustrator is vector based, I know that). But when I save the image in a JPEG, GIF or PNG the quality dramatically decreases. How can I improve that?

Solution 1:

Format

You could save your graphics in a vector based format e.g. .svg. This means there is no quality loss.

Size

If you want to stay on .jpeg/.png or any other pixel based format you must save it with an higher resolution, that will make it look crisp, even if you zoom in.

To do so you must click in Illustrator on File -> Export -> Select JPEG -> and change in the upcomming dialog to your desired Resolution (default is 72ppi).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats