Exercise A4: Saving Images

In this exercise you save images and set the file name, path, and format in the process.

When you save an image, the image format that you select determines whether AutoCAD Raster Design toolset prompts you to specify additional parameters, such as the encoding method for TIFF images.

You can access the Save and Save As dialog boxes using one of these methods:

• Click Image menu Save. Or click Save As.
• In the Image Manager toolspace, Image Insertions view, select the image insertion object, then right-click and click WriteSave or Save As from the shortcut menu.
• In the drawing window, select an image, then right-click and click ImageWriteSave or Save As from the shortcut menu.
• On the Raster Design Toolbar, click Save or Save As .

  You can also export images, which enables you to save an image with a correlation file that determines the position, rotation, and scale of the image when the image is inserted. Correlation files are helpful when you intend to use an image in more than one drawing or in another system.

Related Exercises

Before doing this exercise, ensure that AutoCAD Raster Design toolset options are set as described in the exercise Exercise A1: Setting AutoCAD Raster Design Toolset Options.

Exercise

Open the drawing file for this exercise

1. In the \Tutorial1 folder, open the drawing file GettingStarted_04.dwg.

Save the images

2. Click Image menu Save.
3. Select the image frame of the USGS quad sheet and press Enter.
4. Click Image menu Save As. Then select the image frame of the tractor image.
5. Browse to your Tutorial1 directory, change the filename to farm and click Save.
6. Select the image frame of the aerial photograph in the upper right of the drawing area.
7. Right-click and click Repeat Save As from the shortcut menu.
8. Change the filename to Aerial_photo and click Save.

   The aerial photograph is a TIFF image. AutoCAD Raster Design toolset prompts you to select an encoding method.

9. Select Uncompressed and click Next.
10. Select Tiled and click Finish.

    The image is saved.

11. Close the drawing without saving changes.