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When I import .png's, it gives me this weird distortion. I tried with a .jpg and it worked, but pngs's isn't. It happens when I drag the photo in as well as file > place. Doesn't change anything when I embed the link. I have the most recent version of Illustrator 2020. Can anyone help me figure this out?
Change them to 8 bits/channel (Image > Mode) in Photoshop and you can vote for support for iPhone png's here:
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Hi Hallie,
Thanks for reaching out. I'd recommend clicking on View > Preview on CPU and see if it makes a difference.
Also let us know the version of OS please. Looking forward to your response.
Regards,
Ashutosh
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I am experiencing the same issue and so are my coworkers. View/Preview on CPU did not work.
Any updates or fixes are greatly appreciated.
Mac OS 10.14.6. Adobe Illustrator 2020.
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Where do these PNG's come from?
Does it happen with all PNG's?
If you open them in Photoshop (or another image editor) and resave them, is it still the same?
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Are these RGB or are you trying to make CMYK PNG files?
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Same issue. Was there ever a fix for this? The colors are way off. Not quite inverted, but all different. Can't find a fix. Illustrator 2020 with MacOS 10.15.4.
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Mac OSX 10.15.4, fine
Illustrator 2020 info is incomplete. Please select Illustrator menu>About Illustrator, and specify the numerical version number that appears top left in the panel shown. Thank you.
Try to place the PNGs in RGB documents.
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Where did you get those png files? iPhone?
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Happening to me as well. I took a screenshot with my iphone and then airdropped to my mac to bring into illustrator.
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Check in Photoshop wether it's (it should) an 8 bit image.
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Same thing is happening to me. Had to "screenshot the screenshot" to make it work.
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You can vote for support for iPhone png's here:
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Hello, Did you found a solution for this? I'm having the same issue. (Ilustrator 2020)
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Change them to 8 bits/channel (Image > Mode) in Photoshop and you can vote for support for iPhone png's here:
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Issue is still there. Apparently Illustrator can't handle 16bit color PNGs, which is what iPhone screenshots are and what I was trying to upload. 🤦🏼:female_sign: (And apparently you can't post a female facepalming emoji either, only male...) But if you import the image to Photoshop and change it to 8bit then save and reupload to Illustrator like Ton_Frederiks said, it works.
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You should have 8 Bits/Channel before place an image.
Still, Illustrator doesn't fix this matter.
A better way, changing a bit before place the image to 8 Bits/Channel
Got to Image > Mode > 8 Bits/Channel