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fc gravy aka pinoy gravy aka BRiAN (brain farting since 1985) is a 28.8 year old boy, has been a member since January 17, 2006, has scored 12072 submissions, giving an average score of 2.26.

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Jul 20 '08 by fc gravy

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illustrator cs3 question (& social club apparently)

so, i wanted to release layers from illustrator to photoshop. this was simple in ai-9 (only one option) but in ai-cs3 there's 2 options, release layers (sequence) and release layers (build).

my question is what's the difference and when is it a good time to use either?

your help would be mucho appreciato :)

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 5:33am

Illustrator likes to taunt me.

Therefore I am of no help, sorry misterrrrrr.

fc gravy on Jul 20 '08 at 5:39am

heh, seeing it's you i'll forgive you, misssss.

damn that illustrator taunting. i'd love to torpedo drop it's ass sometimes!

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 5:46am

Best bet is to hunt through google for an answer. I haven't had much play time between Illustrator and Photoshop sorry.

fc gravy on Jul 20 '08 at 5:52am

that's cool, tobasco. the first thing i did was google it but then i realised the hunt looked scary. so on to my plan 'B' ask threadlessians, haha.

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 5:59am

It's the way of the future that's fo sho. I love "InDesign Secrets" It's a shame there isn't a site like that for Illus.

Have you tried just creating two work pages in Photoshop and seeing what the difference is? Or is it not something you can actually see?

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 5:59am

Most be sleeping, methinks.

I like the help search in programmes. HALP! Type in "release layers" or whateverrrr. Time for me to get up. May the force be with you!

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 6:00am

Also: Hai Tobz :)

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 6:02am

Oh Hai Angelito. NZ is not so warm and fuzzy due to wind and rain.

BUT THIS MEANS SNOW! Woop de woop!

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 6:04am

arse yeah I heard it was freeeeeeeezing at home! Yay for snow for you. I'm about to scamper out into the brief ray of sunshine that I see outside....

Hope you are good! x

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 6:07am

I'm pretty much the best ever thank you for asking.

Hope the London "summer" or whatever you're experiencing lasts long enough for you to enjoy time outdoors after work ect ect.

Peace out and have a good day designing things!

fc gravy on Jul 20 '08 at 6:08am

haha, would you two like any drinks? coffee? tea? cake?...

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 6:09am

Eeep!

Sorry mang. Totally destroyed your blog.

*hangs head, and offers soul in return for damages.

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 6:14am

Lets face it Brian, this blog did need to be a bit more social..

*hits jukebox*

:P

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 6:14am

Also -YAY I'm glad you are doing so well!

Brian - how are YOU??

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 6:18am

Yeah Brian. What's going down on your side of the tracks.

fc gravy on Jul 20 '08 at 6:20am

haha, no problem, tobasco, chat away :)

adrienne lied when she said she was no help. that 'HALP!' thing kinda worked and when i say 'kinda' i mean i'm not as clueless as i was 5 mins ago.

tru dat, adrienne! *hi5*

like you i'm 'foine!' haha, ZING!

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 6:21am

Sun gone behind clouds!!!

*runs away*

*expects update on how Brian is to read later*

Bye! x

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 6:24am

I haven't explored the CS3 halp extensivly. And I have illegal versions at home so I don't even know if they come with halp even. But I do remember CS2 being pretty on the ball when it came to dishing out advice about it's own systems.

Stupid sun! *shakes fist for Angelito.

fc gravy on Jul 20 '08 at 6:33am

cs3 is awesome but not knowing the full capabilities is a bit of a drag. hopefully i'll just wrk it out. i tried opening both 'release layers' in PS and they looked kinda the same? every single layer was imported and at the time i had a shit load of layers. my computer was really struggling. i just wanted the single layers, not the layers and the paths as well! i'm sure i'm missing something really simple.

if i know the british sun she'll be back real soon, haha.

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 6:41am

Hurm. Well I do know that Illustrator creates new layers for paths automatically. That's in the layers option in Illustrator, so that could just be Photoshop recognising the Illustrator layers (I'm hoping I'm making some sort of sense here) and keeping them intact. You could try a merge visible in Photoshop per layer, that could get the paths to merge together perhaps?

It's hard to give advice without seeing what's actually happening!

Anyway. Bed time. I'll catch you around man, say hai to Angelito for me when you see her next (you're right about the British sun too).

fc gravy on Jul 20 '08 at 6:49am

from what i understand in 'HALP!' i should just be using 'build' and if i'm doing animation i use 'sequence'.

ah, i know what you mean, that makes total sense. i'll just do that then. cheers, tobasco!

fc gravy on Jul 20 '08 at 6:49am

p.s. g'night!

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 11:10am

British sun FAIL. I went to the movies instead. At least there it is supposed to be dark....

tobasco on Jul 20 '08 at 4:17pm

lolz. Stupid sun. With it's temperamental attitude to our daylight needs. That's just terrible manners really.

angelito on Jul 20 '08 at 5:54pm

It is. I gave the sky the finger and felt much better.

Oh yeah hope you got halp brian! :)

fc gravy on Jul 21 '08 at 3:43am

the brit sun sux!

well, i was just wondering but hopefully someone will proper clue me up on this question. haha cheers, adri! :)

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