Knowledge Base
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- Open up the Creative Cloud app and make sure you are in “All Apps” on the left side
- Look for Illustrator and click the "…" button next to the “Open” button
- Click "Other Versions"
- Look for version 23.1.1 and click Install.
- You can keep CC2020 installed while you have CC2019 installed
- You will have to run the DesignPro 5.1.0 installer again, so that this time it will go into CC2019.
- Select the new art pieces. Using the Magic Wand or the Select > Same menu in Illustrator can be handy to make sure that all pieces of the new artwork are selected.
- Go to the Colorways tab in the Colorist tool and click the Add button under the Art Section.
- For Repeat art, select all the new motifs
- For Weave art, select only the new color bars. Do not select the pattern or fill bars
- For Knit, use the Knit Selection tool and select the new stitches
- It will create new color chips next to the existing ones on the page.
- Click through each of the colorways to update them with the new artwork.
- Recolor the new art by selecting the new color chip and selecting a color from the swatches or color picker.
- Go to the Weave Generation section at the bottom of the weave tool and find the Scale option.
- Check off Warp and Weft if you want to scale the entire weave proportionately, or just one of them if you only need to scale one side.
- Type in the number that you want to scale it by and hit Enter.
- Use the Selection tool to select the Weave bars and drag them shorter or longer. Select all the warp and weft bars at once and hold Shift to scale proportionately or adjust the bars one at a time. Use the Align button to re-align any bars that need it. Then hit Generate.
- Use the Element Details section of the Weave tool. Select a Weave bar and make sure Enable Length Change is checked off. Type in the new length of that bar in the highlighted field above and hit Enter. Do this for all Weave Bars, then hit Generate to update the Weave swatch.
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- Open up the creative cloud module and click the three vertical dots on the top right of the module.
- From there, click Preferences.
- Inside Preferences, select the Creative Cloud option.
- At the bottom of creative cloud, there is a section called "auto update". If it's checked, uncheck it.
- Generate the Color Book from the Books tab on the Color Range tool
- Go to File > Print menu in Illustrator
- Next to Artboards under the General section, select Range.
- Type in the range of artboards you want to print. For example: 30-40, 50
- Click Print
- Go to File > Export >Export As
- Select "Use Artboards" and Range at the bottom of the export window
- Type in the desired range of pages
- Click Export
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Use the Repeat tool in conjunction with Ai Shape tool to create blocks of color and put them into repeat. Use Colorist for colorways and presentation. 
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- If you are creating a print within a print, refrain from using our repeat tool until you are fully ready to create your repeat tile. If you put artwork or motifs into repeat using our tool to just make a larger repeated motif, and then want to take that motif and make it into a larger repeating print, you'll have to expand the motifs by going to object - expand- and check fill and stroke. The motifs that were previously put into repeat carry hidden metadata that fights with the repeat and colorist tool's code, causing the motifs to get deleted off the page.
- If you need to recolor a motif, do so by using the direct select tool in illustrator rather than using colorist. Once a motif or print has been added to colorist it won't like if you then go back and try to put that colorist motif into repeat. As noted before, the Colorist metadata will fight with repeat's code and cause the motif to disappear.
- In a duplicate file in photoshop, start combing through the layers and decide what is able to be merged down or deleted.
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- TIP: Working in a square is easier than working in a rectangle and allows for creating diagonal repeats later, so aim to make your canvas a perfect square if possible.Make sure the file is at 300 DPI, in RGB color mode and the image size is workable. Scale the file up or down depending on the desired scale of the artwork and then change the canvas size to be the closest repeat size you're able to use.
- Once the canvas has been resized, turn rulers on and pull guides out to keep track of the artwork scale the entire time you're working.
- Group the layers by what they are and name the groups (MOTIF LAYERS, COLOR OVERLAY LAYERS, TEXTURE LAYERS, etc.)
- You will then want to start putting each of those groups into repeat. (Make sure you pay attention to each layers opacity and if there are any blend modes applied. If there are, you can hide the groups you aren't currently using, and CMND or CTRL + SHIFT+ C, CMND or CTRL+ V to copy and paste the desired group onto one flattened layer. Doing this will keep the layered group underneath in case you need to pull motifs on top of your merged layer to use later.
- Repeat this process for each of the groups.
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- Start by tiling out horizontally first; once that part is in repeat you can tile out vertically.If you have access to our RSe tools, you'll want to enable the RSe Repeat tool now. If not, you can start to build out your repeat by copying and pasting each merged group and tiling them out.
- Tools that are great in photoshop for closing seams are the spot healing brush (bandaid icon) and patch tool (inside the bandaid icon). These tools use content aware when you draw over unwanted areas and close seams easily. You can also use the clone stamp tool and clone other parts of the artwork onto the seam to better control the look of your repeat.
- These steps should be done for each horizontal and vertical seam tile in each of the layer groups.
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- Do this by selecting all layers and going to edit-define pattern.
- Next, on the bottom middle of the photoshop layers panel there is a little circle icon that is half black and half white. Click that icon and select "pattern" from the dropdown menu.
- Change the scale to 50% and check to make sure your repeat is looking good.Once all of your groups are in repeat, put back on any blending modes and transparencies and create a pattern at 50% to check all of your repeats.
- At this point you can save the file as XXXX_repeat.psd and then merge all layers down into one flattened image.
- Save this file as XXXX_cleaning.psd (only if cleaning is necessary...otherwise can do _colorways etc.) and bring that file into RS to color separate, clean and create colorways.
- Open up the desired pattern swatch in an Illustrator file. You can copy and paste the pattern from another file or place it into the Illustrator document. If it is placed in the document make sure to embed the pattern.
- Go to Window>DesignPro>Design Bar to open the DesignBar if it's not open already.
- Click the Camera icon on the Design Bar to expand it and show the Raster Recolor Button that will be used.
- Push the desired color palette into the Swatches window so that the colors will be available in the file. If the palette was made with the Palette Manager tool, use the Palette Utility tool to push the selected color palette into the swatches.
- Use the Selection tool to select the pattern image in the document.
- With the image selected, hold down the Control key (PC) or the Command key (Mac) on the keyboard and select the colors that you want to recolor the image with in the Illustrator Swatches window.
- Click the Raster Recolor button (Paintbrush) on the Design Bar.
- Click OK to the prompt.
- A pattern swatch of the image tonally recolored in each selected color will now be added into the Illustrator Swatches window.
- Create the Warp and Weft Weave bars using the Add Element tool and Generate the Weave.
- Add textures to the weave as pattern swatches in Illustrator that get placed in the color bars either by selecting the color bars and changing their color fill to the pattern swatch, or by making colorways using Colorist and using the color chips to recolor the weave to have pattern swatches.
In Colorist in Illustrator and in RS, you can use the Regions tool to present a certain size of the artwork and present multiple colorways per page. To present Regions in Illustrator:
- Create Colorways in Colorist
- Set the Artboard to be the desired size
- Go to the Regions Tab
- Use the Illustrator Rectangle tool to make a rectangle on the artwork area that you want to present.
- Click Set in the Region tab
- Go to the Colorist tab and select the colorways you want to present
- Click the 4th button down on the right side of the tool.
- It will throw a pop up message asking how many colorways per page you want to export or if you want to put them all on one page. If the colorways do not fit it will ask you to change the artboard size or the region size, or adjust the amount of colorways per page. Click OK.
- It will make a new Illustrator file called "File name_All Colorways.ai" with the colorways and color chips on the page.
To present Regions in RS:
- Create Colorways in Colorist.
- Go to the Page tab and set the page size. Make sure "Show Page Border" is checked off
- Go to the Regions Tab
- Use the Rectangle tool on the left side of the RS window to make a rectangle on the artwork area that you want to present
- Click Set in the Region tab
- Go to the Colorist tab and select the colorways you want to present
- Go to File>Export
- Choose where you want to export the files to in the Directory
- Check off Colorways and Multiple per Page
- Check off Use One Page or set the amount of colorways vertically and horizontally
- Click OK at the bottom of the export panel
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- Set up the artwork on the page as desired using your Colorist Templates or the Layout and Show tabs along with any Illustrator functions like the artboard or Alignment tools.
- Go to the Colorways tab in Colorist and select the colorways you want to send off.
- Click the 3rd button down on the right side of the colorist tool. This is the Present button. It will create a new Illustrator file called "File Name_All Colorways.ai" Each colorway will be on its own artboard and grouped together. This is the file you will share with others.
- You can always go back to the original colorist file and edit the artwork/make changes to colorways and present them again.
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- Go to the Toolbar and click the "..." at the bottom
- Click the Options icon at the top right corner
- Check off Advanced
- Go to Window>Toolbars>Advanced. This will expand the toolbox to include the DesignPro tools.
- Go to Window>Workspace>Essentials Classic. This will change the Illustrator workspace to the classic essentials setup from older versions of Illustrator, including expanding the toolbox to include the Aquario Design tools.
If you are experiencing issues while saving or exporting files to a server or share drive from an Aquario Design application, please follow the these steps to fix the issue.
-Save/export to a local location (ie. Desktop) to eliminate all connection issues to external locations. If this is successful, check the list below and then re-try sending the files elsewhere.
-Check that the drive is still connected and hasn't dropped off by clicking into it via Finder (Mac) or Explorer (PC). Once it is confirmed that the drive location is stable, try exporting or saving there again.
-If the computer is not connected to an Ethernet cable and is working on wifi, please check that the wifi connection is also stable and hasn't dropped. If it has, reconnect and try again or try plugging into a hard wired connection for more stability.
-Try saving the file locally and closing the program all together. Check all connections above and then try opening the file again and exporting/saving to the server/share drive.
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