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Expand appearance

Meaning in graphic design, with examples

verbAdvanced term

In graphic design, expand appearance means: To convert an object's live appearance effects into editable artwork objects.

In Turkish: görünümü nesnelere dönüştürmek

How it is used

Use before editing generated shapes individually; retain an editable original when useful.

Example sentences

  1. We used Expand Appearance to edit the warped lettering as paths.

    The live visual effect becomes geometry that can be edited directly.

  2. Expand Appearance produced several objects from the decorative brush stroke.

    One procedural appearance may contain multiple underlying shapes.

Common collocations

  • expand appearance
  • expanded appearance objects
  • vector graphicAn image made of points, lines and curves defined by mathematics rather than pixels, so it can be scaled to any size without losing quality. Logos and icons are usually vector graphics.
  • source filesThe original, editable working files of a design, such as AI, PSD, INDD or Figma files, as opposed to final exported files like PDFs or PNGs.

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