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Exporting transparency to Photoshop - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery
Exporting transparency to Photoshop
- [Instructor] All right now, at this point, you may well worry about how well this artwork is going to print, because anytime you wander down the road of adjusting opacity in particular blend modes and opacity masks, you're wandering well outside of the postscript printing language, Which is why I always recommend, if you're at all concerned about the integrity of your artwork, that you go ahead and export it to Photoshop. And so, that's what we're going to do. Plus, we're going to use Photoshop to apply a few modifications. So I'll go up to the File menu and choose Export, followed by Export As, and notice if you loaded D Keys, I've included a shortcut of Control Shift Alt X for export. That's Command Shift Option X on the Mac. And that'll bring up this dialog box right here. Now by default, if this is the first time you've chosen this command, it'll be set to AutoCAD Drawing. That's not going to help us out at all.…
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The many ways to blend colors1m 56s
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Adjusting the opacity with shortcuts6m 41s
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Blending modes: Multiply and Screen6m 41s
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The other modes: Overlay thru Luminosity9m 14s
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My dekeKeys blend mode shortcuts6m 24s
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The effect of color space on blending modes8m 14s
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A few advanced blending mode tricks7m 19s
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Applying blending modes in the Appearance panel9m 58s
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Creating auto-inverting type7m 54s
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Carving dynamic holes with Knockout Group8m 36s
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Knockout Group option and dynamic attributes5m 2s
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Using the Isolate Blending option6m 47s
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Introducing the opacity mask8m 17s
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Putting an opacity mask into use10m 22s
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Applying blending modes to entire layers8m 3s
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Adding Photoshop pixels to an opacity mask9m 59s
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Finishing up the tattooed face7m 34s
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Exporting transparency to Photoshop12m 22s
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