Comments on: Illustrator tip: Preserving transparency & effects on the clipboard (using copy/paste) http://georgecoghill.com/blog/2007/04/27/illustrator-tip-preserving-transparency-effects-on-the-clipboard-using-copypaste/ Cartoon character mascot & logo design sketch blog with tips and tutorials. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:31:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: las6 http://georgecoghill.com/blog/2007/04/27/illustrator-tip-preserving-transparency-effects-on-the-clipboard-using-copypaste/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 las6 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:36:56 +0000 http://georgecoghill.com/blog/2007/04/27/illustrator-tip-preserving-transparency-effects-on-the-clipboard-using-copypaste/#comment-1419 I'm a total Illustrator newbie, but thought I'd give it a try as I had to design a couple of flyers and posters. After figuring out the whole appereance panel thing, this was probably my biggest problem. The fact that there is no right-click menu drives me into madness. Using the flyout menu is sooo handy...not. well, unless you use a mac mouse with just button. I tried the "paste remembers.." method, which IMO should be on by default (coming from photoshop..and heck, even office has "paste special"). That didn't help as I had the appereance set up for the layer because the objects themselves were colored improperly (live trace) and I wanted a one-tone look for the whole thing. So what I did was duplicate the layer via the flyout menu, then chose "collect in new layer" from the same flyout menu with the duplicate selected. Now my layer was inside another layer. But this time If I copied that to a new file, the appereance of the inner layer was preserved! I’m a total Illustrator newbie, but thought I’d give it a try as I had to design a couple of flyers and posters. After figuring out the whole appereance panel thing, this was probably my biggest problem. The fact that there is no right-click menu drives me into madness. Using the flyout menu is sooo handy…not. well, unless you use a mac mouse with just button.

I tried the “paste remembers..” method, which IMO should be on by default (coming from photoshop..and heck, even office has “paste special”). That didn’t help as I had the appereance set up for the layer because the objects themselves were colored improperly (live trace) and I wanted a one-tone look for the whole thing.

So what I did was duplicate the layer via the flyout menu, then chose “collect in new layer” from the same flyout menu with the duplicate selected. Now my layer was inside another layer. But this time If I copied that to a new file, the appereance of the inner layer was preserved!

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