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Jeremy-Dennis
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June 1, 2018
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While 'exporting as' a .PSD (Photoshop) file from Illustrator, some elements come in flattened

  • June 1, 2018
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I'm using an application called Crank Storyboard Designer. It's an embedded UI platform which can import .PSD files for graphic placement etc.

While trying to export the Illustrator file to Photoshop,I put all the different screen elements into different laters, and most of them come in as groups of layers in Photoshop, but some of them get merged (seemingly at random) so I have a few layers in Photoshop named <path> + <path> + <compound path> and these items were definitely not grouped in Illustrator. They were however, next to each other in the arrangement hierarchy.

Here is the Illustrator layers on the left vs the photoshop layers on the right. The <Compound Path + Menu_icon and divider + <Path> Layers are what I'm trying to avoid

Here's what the photoshop import looks like:

And these are the elements that are being combined that you can see because I'm turning off their visibility:

and

This is just one example of this happening, there's a ton of other places this is happening and it's really aggravating. I need this export to work perfectly because the Photoshop files need to be very well organized for the import

Thank you for your help!

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Correct answer Mike_Gondek10189183

Highlight the item you want to make a layer.

Layers flyout >> collect in new layer

Then drag out so not a sublayer

Repeat this for all items not in layers that you are having trouble with.

Illustrator only write layers when you export to RGB, are you exporting to CMYK then converting to RGB in photoshop? I would create this in Photoshop rather than Illustrator and export to photoshop, then you need n ot worry about RGB values changing.

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OnTheWaveSteve
Participant
June 1, 2018

Try enabling "Isolate Blending" on each layer before exporting to Photoshop.

Mike_Gondek10189183
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Mike_Gondek10189183Community ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 1, 2018

Highlight the item you want to make a layer.

Layers flyout >> collect in new layer

Then drag out so not a sublayer

Repeat this for all items not in layers that you are having trouble with.

Illustrator only write layers when you export to RGB, are you exporting to CMYK then converting to RGB in photoshop? I would create this in Photoshop rather than Illustrator and export to photoshop, then you need n ot worry about RGB values changing.