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July 12, 2022
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Fur blend and roughen effect exporting problem

  • July 12, 2022
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Hiya,

 

I am a bit lost - I created a couple of furry creatures for my Redbubble shop, but this time with a blend.

 

Whilst they look absolutely adorable on my monitor, they export with just "half" the fur, so to say.

 

I have tried ALL settings whilst exporting (it can't be anything else than jpg, png or gif) and nothing exports as it looks on the screen.

 

It is as if a full layer of fur is just missing.

 

I created these creatures by using a blend and then roughen, expanding, ungrouping etc. pp.

 

I never used this technique before, but created my furs with brushes. I have no clue why the export isn't working as it should. Never ever had this issue before with any of my graphics or other blends in other projects.

 

I also tried the "rename the Adobe folder" technique, as of the GPU, but that didn't do the trick as well.

 

See attached the comparison between "before" and "after".

 

Thank you so much for your input, community!

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Doug A Roberts
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Community Expert
July 12, 2022

It looks as if the export is anti-aliased, but the screenshot in AI isn't -- the brushes are being rendered finer in the export. Can you share a screenshot of your whole Illustrator workspace?

Participating Frequently
July 13, 2022

I am not sure what you need to see, but see attached 🙂 I have turned off Anti-Aliasing just now, exported again - and it still comes out with lesser fur than there actually is (just gave it a try - I'd try anything now. I guess I should have just gone with the old method 😵)

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 13, 2022

I am on a PC, so it's the Windows Photos viewer (just tried opening it in others, like Paint - same appearance problem again). Just set up the document in RGB, still the same outcome. It looses detail during export, especially with the bright colours.

 

I know, it doesn't make any sense (CMYK but then saving it as png) but that's the rules Redbubble has set up for the art to be uploaded into the shop.


On the right is AI, on the left the PNG in Windows Photo Viewer.

 

While at some zoom levels I can see differences in antialiasing, I don't think there's any actual difference in detail.