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  • Create Outlines / Paths?

    Posted by Kurt Larson on January 12, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    hey so i made a logo in photoshop and i saved it as a psd and brought it into illustrator… i want to use this logo in 3dsmax but illustrator cant create an outline or path around the logo… the type create outlines is greyed out… anyone know abot this?

    John Mensinger replied 16 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • John Mensinger

    January 15, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    Type > Create Outlines only works on type. You have 2 options:

    1. Use Illustrator’s Live Trace feature with a very tight path fitting tolerance.

    2. Take it back to Photoshop, make a selection equal to your desired path. Use the Paths panel to convert it to a path, then choose Export Paths to Illustrator.

    John M:
    All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor.

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