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Photoshop layers in Illustrator not rendering properly in AE
Hello all,
My problem is a unique one. I design artwork in Illusrtrator, export (raterize) it to PS and then add subtle textures in PS. I bring those PS layers back into Illustrator simply by opening up the PS file in Illustrator and copying them into the original .ai art file. Now… I start to see issues… Illustrator puts little white pixels all over my raster images from PS. Not everywhere and not all the time… but enough that it’s a problem…. The only clue I have is a single line in the help doc which states that “illustrator converts transparent pixels to white.” (which is odd because it’s not true, many of the transparent pixels remain transparent) This issue does not go away in AE either… wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I mean I have other means… and yes I can import the PS and AI into AE and comp them there… but if there was a way to get the pixels out and only have a illustrator source file… that would be the perfect solution for my particular situation… any ideas?
thanks!
-Roman -
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Well I should have been more specific about the process… I don’t copy the formerly vector images back into Illustrator from PS… just the new Raster ones… and then re-reg them to the original vector art in Illustrator… So yeah I see your point… but the vector remains vector and the raster remains raster… The main benifit is the scale ability of Illustrator in AE… The Raster art may become jaggy… but becuase there is tight vector art behind it… it holds up for extreme close-ups.
I just wonder if anyone has ever seen this issue with illustrator… why does it make white pixels all over the place? I know there are other ways to do this… I just wonder if anyone has a fix for how Illustrator draws Raster artwork…. Is there a setting some place or other?
Thanks
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No, your right… that works fine… It’s just that I need a deliverable file type. I work in TV animation and I am heading up a BG dept that must provide massive amounts of location plates per episode. So my need to get everything into illustrator is mostly born from wanting to be able to hand off a single file type to an overseas studio and have it instantly be ready for AE. I could send the illustrator file and the ps file… but then I rely on other people to put it together which gives me the willys. We could do it here in AE… but it’s another step in an already long series of steps… and any change to those individual files can totally mess up the comp in AE. I know it all sounds insane, but the results are worth it. I am planning to just send rasterized version since I can’t sort this problem with illustrator out… unless someone knows how to get rid of the ugly white pixels… anyone?
-R
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dave,
I figured it out!!! I needed to set the interpret footage to anti-alias “more accurate”… that did it… Yay!
Now I have a question… is there anyway to force AE to use that setting everytime rather than having to do it for all the “texture” layers? I know… never happy…
-R
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