Setting up Illustrator files for CLO and Colorway Mode

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astro

• 2018年04月23日 22:44
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Hi, 

I have some tips for how to set up your graphics in Illustrator for importing into CLO's Colorway Mode. 

In my example, I want to toggle through 3 different embroideries on my jacket. You may have noticed that if you try to change graphics in Colorway Mode, sometimes they get rescaled and start to tile in a weird way. To prevent this, I put each graphic on a 5" x 5" artboard by itself, making sure it has no background. I used rose embroideries I found on the internet, but this works for vector art and everything. You can use any size artboard, as long as all of them are the same size. I've found that CLO uses the artboard as the boundary when using Illustrator files instead of the artwork. 

Once I save this file, I can import one of the roses onto my jacket with the Graphic Tool. When you add the Illustrator file, you can actually toggle through the artboards and decide which one you want to use, which is why having everything in one file is convenient. 

I'll place my first graphic, then go into Colorway Mode.

In Colorway Mode, I can change the graphic in my second colorway.

 

So, there is some upfront work to scale and gauge the placement of the graphic before seeing it in CLO, but if you can decide the boundary of the artwork on the garment and set up the artboard to match, it can become a really convenient way of working.

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• dutchesse1

  • 2018年06月01日 04:55

  Hi Astro, first of thanks for taking the time to clarify this process. I watched the 'what is new in 4.1' today and was excited to see the progress made when importing ai files.

  In your tutorial above, once you move on to the step where you change the 2nd graphic in Colorway you loose me as there is no further explanation of steps on how you got to the end result for the other 2 roses once you did the first one. I tried several things to do it myself but ran into some problems ... 

  1), Once one logo is in, it does not show up on the 2nd garment in exactly the same way i.e. Logo looks great on the white top but the pink it suddenly is scaled up to where only the A shows.

  

  As I was not sure what to do next I figured I needed to add a new logo in the pink top which then shows up wonky in the first one, 
  

  This resulted in the colorway section to show another graphic line versus in yours there is only one graphic line for the 'rose illustrator' graphic 
  Ugh, can't figure this out.

  It would be awesome if yo could revise the above tutorial by adding a bit more step by step explanations and imagery.
  Hopefully then I can get the same result as you have :) :) :) (Which I'm sure is much easier for the program to handle when there are less graphics to process)

  Thanks so much in advance 
  Cheers 

   

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• dutchesse1

  • 2018年06月10日 01:07

  UPDATE: I think I figured it out,  it has to do with the scaling ... as soon as you change the scaling setting for one the ones that follow will start showing out of scale

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