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  • Is it possible to expand some text that was mapped onto a 3D extrude object – doesn’t seem to be…

    Posted by Timi Boose on May 22, 2013 at 9:00 pm

    Hi,
    I’m creating a logo and mapped it onto a sphere using 3D extrude – It looks pretty good and I’d like to use that as the logo – but expand appearance only expands the sphere shape. Live trace is grayed out. Anyone know how i can do this – or is there another way to get text to look like it’s wrapping around a sphere using a different method?

    Timi Boose replied 13 years ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  • Timi Boose

    May 22, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    I pasted the whole image into Photoshop, then saved it and imported it back into Illustrator and it worked. Live tracing away….

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