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ana sofiaf4471999
Inspiring
October 31, 2024
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Help! Once again my Illustrator is erasing stuff from my artwork and undoing things I've done before

  • October 31, 2024
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Hello everyone, my name is Sofia and i'm an Illustrator from Portugal and i've been experiencing some strange things with my Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat! 

 

In my illustrator artwork (file) elements from my artwork have been missing or disappearing and little things have been changed, like for instance, the last thing i've noticed was the texture i've done myself on a tree, round half circles, once again, done handly by me without creating any texture per say and when i opened the file to continue working they (this time) weren't actually missing but the color was blue instead of dark green, what i mean is, they went back to the color they were before i started painting them. My Acrobat is showing in one particular work way too much vivid colors, colors that are way too much vivid then in my actual Illustrator artwork, did i saved it wrong on the Pdf i've generated? I don't know and last but not least, when i take screenshots in my new Macbook Pro Max M3 computer the colors when uploaded to my website on Cargo Collective seem dull and fainted, can someone explain to me why too?

 

Thank you for your attention! 

 

Hopefully this will end soon because it's my work that's at risk.

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Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 31, 2024

WHere do you save your files?

When does Illustrator take away things? While you work or when you reopen the file?

 

As for taking screenshots and uploading: This will bypass color management, so you have to expect colors changing.

As for colors changing when exporting to PDF: How is your color management set up? WHich color mode is the AI file? WHich profile are you using? How are your color settings in the PDF export? How are your color settings in Acrobat?

Community Expert
October 31, 2024

Some of the description makes me think of the odd things that can happen when RGB-based artwork is moved into CMYK-based documents (especially if the RGB artwork has various kinds of transparency effects applied).

ana sofiaf4471999
Inspiring
October 31, 2024

Hello! 

 

Thank you for aswering, i always put my files for CMYK, where do i check this after generating a file or after it's generated on AI?

 

Thank you...