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brinzerdecalli
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March 29, 2017
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Converting from Illustrator to Photoshop CC is causing flattening

  • March 29, 2017
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I'm trying to figure out a way to make art in a manner that feels natural to me, using Illustrator and Photoshop, but I occasionally run into this error.

Mild gore, and nudity in the image I'm going to show the error with. A scene for a D&D story I'm developing.

See, the first layer flattens, then all of the other ones flatten into a layer. Why? Anyone else has this glitch happen to them?

Thanks for any help!

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    brinzerdecalliAuthor
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    April 5, 2017

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    brinzerdecalliAuthor
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    March 29, 2017

    Proof I did the same process and it kept the layers, and I was able to add shadows and effects.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
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    March 29, 2017

    Check your layer structures down to the lowest levels. This often happens when you overlooked something that hasn't been expanded or even more trivial stuff like stray anchor points that don't produce anything visible, but are still there.

    Mylenium

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    brinzerdecalliAuthor
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    April 6, 2017

    There could also be an issue with your sub-sub-layers. Move them up in hierarchy, so that they are just layers.


    What? Is there an easy way to do that?

    If I can't use layer nesting, doesn't that defeat the whole idea of keeping scenes organized to bring over to photoshop for better shading?

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