#TRANSPARENT ARTBOARD ILLUSTRATOR HOW TO#

SO Im googling for how to do it and all the possible answers tell me to use the Artwork Properties panel and select the colour there, set it to transparent. However I'm using the latest update, Illustrator v 25.0.1 and there's no way to select artwork colour there. A mask makes it transparent, so whatever is in the background, shows through. Not in the properties panel, or in the artboard options popup, anywhere I can see. You put it on a white background on your webpage -> there will be white holes. I figured i'd have to do the artwork again on a new (transparent) artboard - but there's nothing about artboard colour on the 'new file' options either. Document setup leads me to a colour selection area for the artboard but the best that can do is give me a white background. That's just as disastrous for me as a chartreuse background. Still no way to get a transparent artboard that I can see. So how do you set transparent artboard in Illustrator v25.0.1? The choices you find by asking Uncle Google might work in previous versions but dont seem to in this latest version.ĪI file for sending out the client's proof copy, but when I delete that later for production I have a white background. That's a whole different way of looking at it. I was kind of envisioning something like in Photoshop when you make a gif with transparency. In Photoshop there's a clear difference between what you see when you have a white background and a transparent background. And when in Illustrator I couldn't see that kind of checkerboard look I just assumed I couldn't get transparency on a PNG. In my mind that meant when I sent this to the printer for production, they'd be printing white ink over the top of the yellow paper. Ok I've sent it off to the printing company and asked them for a proof and see what they send me back. Step 1 Place the image or the design object you want to apply the gradient to in your artboard.

png file with absolutely nothing in the background so it will show the paper colour through. You cannot add any other design element after adding the gradient. If you have more than one element in your design, you must group them first.

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Inbeatable Value The Ultimate Toolbox for Designers Download as much as you want for just 16. However there's a workaround that might help you. But in Illustrator it looks like a white background. You could draw a rectangle the same size as the artboard, fill it with a chequered pattern, then lock the layer. Then place/design your content on layers above. When you have finished you could always hide/delete the pattern layer.

For a company that's been bragging for a decade or more that they have standardised UI on all their applications they sure have a lot of differences.

#TRANSPARENT ARTBOARD ILLUSTRATOR DRIVER#

The Legacy Save for Web may be an old carthorse, but it knows its way home, even if the driver is drunk and sleeping it off in the hay in the back.I have an issue with 3 applications now - a different issue with each one related to the application UI. If you have pure vector artwork, you can relax a bit and have the artwork/Artboard at any size (the Artboard must have the same proportions as the final image), then use the Legacity Save for Web and set either Width or Height in the Image Size and Apply (make sure the other value is also correct). In either case, use the relevant optimization (available with both ways) it is also convenient to have 72PPI in the Effect>Document Raster Effect Settings. Therefore, the safest way is to create the artwork at the final pixel x pixel size and use a corresponding Artboard, then either use the Legacity Save for Web (where you can look in the Image Size window for size confirmation) or Export at 72PPI.

Otherwise the resulting image will become a bit wider/taller and the extension(s) will be empty and therefore be white. It is also important to have the artwork and also the Artboard placed fully within integer/whole pixel X and Y values in the Workspace. To retain the clean and crisp artwork, a PNG must be created at exactly the pixel x pixel size that it is to be used for (or second best at sizes that are powers of 2 times as large). It is easiest and safest to work at the desired size.Ī very common unsuitable way is to Export to PNG (remember to use PNG24 and use Transparency for artwork to be in front of different backgrounds) with a medium or high resolution, such as 300PPI. If you wish to have PNGs (PNG24, of course) look crisp and clean, it is important to have the images in the exact desired final pixel x pixel size, forget about resolution which may actually lead to wrong sizes and hence blurriness. This may sound unforgivably outdated and boring, sorry.

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