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Offline LuckyFlyinROUSH

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Art Gradient Boxes
« on: November 28, 2017, 06:07:55 PM »
Anyone know what the hell makes gradient boxes like this? It drives me nuts.  Then we have to go in and assign a spot color to each gradient, but I can't select all gradients and make them the new spot color swatch as they all are different. So you have to do 200 boxes all separately.

We build all our art as the actual object, not some random box set over top.
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Offline cbjamel

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Re: Art Gradient Boxes
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2017, 06:35:13 PM »
Looks like conversion from colored to black only. Ungroup or un combine them. Maybe. Depending on ai or cdr or how created.

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Re: Art Gradient Boxes
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2017, 08:20:54 AM »
 I would copy and paste that sucker into Photoshop at 100% print size and 300 resolution.  Then adjust levels to burn out the gradients and leaving the solid area as one color and the gradients copied over into a new channel as another color.
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Re: Art Gradient Boxes
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2017, 10:07:21 AM »
What Dan said, sometimes it's just faster in Photoshop, and looks just as good. Also, I've tried Vector First Aid from Astute Graphics on some files like this. It fixes some, but not all, I'm not sure why, and too busy to dig in and figure it out.

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Offline NTZ-Deanna

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Re: Art Gradient Boxes
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2017, 10:43:07 AM »
All of those boxes is what happens when a Gradient has been "expanded" in illustrator.  My experience with Illustrator and Film is that you never want to expand those gradients and if they already are...you may need to rebuild them via Illustrator or Photoshop.  Perhaps you can go back to an original artwork file and find them before they were expanded.  :-\
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Offline Chadwick

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Re: Art Gradient Boxes
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2017, 09:10:29 AM »
If using Corel, don't combine them, as this will change all the different gradients
to a single gradient across the image, which of course will change the art significantly.
Grouping them would be the way to go here if you need to stay in vector.
( I imagine it's similar in Illy? )

That said, I agree with everyone about exporting to photoshop.
If you're familiar with it, you'll save alot of time on this particular image.

Expanded gradients..always wondered why some files looked like this.
I don't bother with Illustrator much.
Thanks Deanna.