RGB to CMYK trouble from Flash to Illustrator
Over the years I have had many instances where I have created vector art in Adobe Flash simply because I hate Illustrator’s interface. Unfortunately if the art is for print media, eventually I will have to export the art out as either an .ai or an .eps file.
Herein typically lies the trouble.
The internet is littered with posts from people (even on the Adobe site itself) complaining of this well known problem.
The workflow is as follows:
- You draw something in Flash.
- You want to export that thing out to Illustrator as a vector file
- You go to Export>Image>Export as Ai> export as AI v6
- You scream and cry because when you open your exported file it’s been converted to CMYK colors instead of RGB!
- Nothing will convert it to RGB despite many attempts to change the Document Color mode or changing the Color Management. There are no color export settings for Flash.
- You hang your head and cry.
Ah, but there is a solution! It takes a few steps to do but it’s worth it!
The workflow is as follows:
- Draw the Mona Lisa in Flash
- export as an EPS
- What’s that you say? There is a pixel shift in your exported file creating horizontal white lines across your character or art?
- No worries, there’s a fix for that too!
- Select all of you art and then select the Live Paint bucket.
- Click on your art and Illustrator will convert the file to a Live Paint object.
- Now you will notice that your white lines have disappeared!
- rejoice that you have foundeth this here blog!
Shame on you Adobe… you can easily fix this and yet each version that comes out you ignore it. What happened to your great company? you’ve become as fat and bloated as Microsoft witht eh right hand not knowing (or caring) what the left hand is doing!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
