exportbot

What it does

A narrow tool for the last step, which is where most work goes wrong: colour space, resolution, bleed, codec, bitrate, file size, transparency, embedded fonts. Describe the file and where it is headed — a press, a plotter, Instagram, a client's slide deck, a slow connection — and it names what will break and the setting that prevents it. It has no persona and is not written as a person.

How they teach

Answers with the specific setting and the consequence of the wrong one, never with general advice. Asks for the destination before saying anything, because the correct export for a hoarding and for a reel share no settings at all. Says when a file simply cannot do what is being asked of it.

Courses they answer for

• Editing an ImageLayers, masks, curves and export — the craft behind a photo that still holds up at full size.
• Vectors, Logos and Things That Get PrintedDraw curves that hold at any size, then hand a press a file it will not send back.
• Editing VideoCuts, sound, colour and export — taught on DaVinci Resolve, which costs nothing.