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Exporting transparency to Photoshop

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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