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saeyoung111
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May 10, 2019
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Adobe Animate CC 2019 Break Apart tool isn't working right

  • May 10, 2019
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Help! I have this problem in Breaking apart a shape object imported from Photoshop.

I made a 2D cartoon in Photoshop and I used shape tool for it. I imported it to Animate CC to make a simple animation. But I can't apply a warp to the layer so I need to use break apart. When I press CTRL+B to break apart, the layer suddenly changed color. I don't know what to do/...Help me T.T

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Correct answer n. tilcheff

Hi mate,

It seems that there is some masking and what not in that file.

When you break it apart the file structure is destroyed. What you see is probably the mask in red, the colour of the shark is this blue colour card and so on.

Break apart is working just fine. It's your file from Photoshop that is not suitable for what you want to do with it.

What should you do?

Learn how to use Animate's tools and create your artwork in Animate.

Best

NT

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n. tilcheff
n. tilcheffCorrect answer
Legend
May 10, 2019

Hi mate,

It seems that there is some masking and what not in that file.

When you break it apart the file structure is destroyed. What you see is probably the mask in red, the colour of the shark is this blue colour card and so on.

Break apart is working just fine. It's your file from Photoshop that is not suitable for what you want to do with it.

What should you do?

Learn how to use Animate's tools and create your artwork in Animate.

Best

NT

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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adelwich@trinity.edu
Participant
February 5, 2021

I do not appreciate the tone in this response and it doesn't really explain why Break Apart no longer functions in the same way that it used to. Telling someone "Learn how to use Animate's tools and create your work in Animate" is not a solution to the problem. It's a way of avoiding solving the problem.

    n. tilcheff
    n. tilcheff
    Legend
    February 5, 2021

    Whether you appreciate it or not is entirely your own problem.

    Break Apart does function the way it has always functioned, and all issues that the user faced when reporting this were due to multiple user errors, lack of knowledge and unrealistic expectations.

    Whether Animate is 'smart enough' to handle unprepared for it Photoshop or Illustrator files is debatable, but a no-one coming here to tone police a perfectly valid reply and advice is just funny.

     

    You should learn how to use Animate, mate!

    And best: create all your artwork in the program 🙂

     

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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