Export As and Quick Export in Paint by Zaweba

Producing one picture at one size is easy in any editor. Producing a set of icons at three sizes, or ten artboards as PNG and JPEG for different channels, is where time goes. File > Export > Export As in Paint by Zaweba, on Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W, handles that in one dialog. Its little sibling, Quick Export, sends the current picture to your preferred format and folder with a single click.

What Export As can export

You choose the scope first: the current artboard, every artboard, or each visible layer. Every artboard is ideal when you have laid out a set of social posts or banner sizes side by side. Each visible layer suits icon sets, stickers or game assets where each item lives on its own layer.

Then you choose sizes, and you can choose several at once. Scale factors such as 2x or 0.5x, and fixed sizes such as 640w (640 pixels wide) or 480h (480 pixels high), each with a suffix added to the file name. So one export can produce logo.png, logo@2x.png and a small thumbnail together, named consistently, ready to drop into a website or app project.

Format and options

Formats are PNG, JPEG and WebP, with a quality setting for the lossy ones and a choice about transparency. You can add copyright text, and embed an sRGB profile so colours display consistently in browsers. A size preview shows how big the files will be before you commit, which saves the round trip of exporting, checking and exporting again.

As a rule of thumb, PNG suits graphics, icons and anything with transparency. JPEG suits photographs where transparency isn't needed. WebP covers both with smaller files, as long as the destination accepts it.

Quick Export

Quick Export skips the dialog. You set your preferred format and folder once, then every Quick Export goes there. It is perfect for repetitive daily work: saving a screenshot edit, sending a quick crop to a colleague, or dropping finished photos into an upload folder. It keeps your attention on the picture rather than on a file dialog.

A tidy workflow

Name layers and artboards well before you export. The file names come from them, so "header-desktop" and "header-mobile" beat "Artboard 3" when the files land in someone else's project.

Design at the largest size you need, then export smaller ones. Scaling down keeps edges sharp; scaling a small design up to 2x will look soft.

Check the size preview for surprises. A photographic layer exported as PNG can be enormous; switching that one export to JPEG or WebP can cut it dramatically.

How it fits with other tools

Export As is for hand-picked exports from the document you are working on. If you want named layers to export themselves automatically every time you save, File > Generate > Image Assets does that from layer names. For tuning a single image to the last kilobyte, Save for Web gives you side-by-side comparison and a target-size option. And for whole folders of files, the batch tools take over.

Between them, these let Paint by Zaweba work as a production tool as well as an editor, without any cloud service between you and your files.