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Photoshop -> illustrator
Hey Guys, really need help here
I have a 300 dpi file which i drew in 3 pantone colours, i tried to use a few trace methods in illustrator cs3 whic usually works but it’s not working this time. the edges keep blurring in some areas. i need this scalable but nothing is working, can anyone help ? I have the psd file which i can send to you.
Here is the link: https://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/gummybear052003/pantonecolours.jpg
I’d really appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this.
Many thanks ^_^
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6 Replies
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Hi,
just import (place) the picture into Illustrator, use it as a template (double click and check .Then use the pen tool and manually re-trace one of the three elements from your picture (I would trace the largest).
That’ll take you 2 minutes at the most. Once you have traced one, duplicate twice and resize, so it matches the size of the other 2 objects. Done.
Create your Pantone colours and fill each object with the correct colour.
If it was a very complex image there are other ways (more time consuming) to achieve the same results, but since this is a very simple shape, retracing would in my opinion the quickest fix.
hope that helps.Adi
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Hi Adi
🙂 Thank you so much for the help and the answer, i tried out what you said, unfortunately i didn’t get beyond the tracing stage as my hands shake (previous nerve damage) and it just wasn’t coming our right – very frustrating 🙁
but I’m sure it works – genius, thank you so much
warmest regards and huge hugs
Fatimah -
not sure what the problem is. i was able to take your jpeg and use the default illustrator black+white trace settings with the threshold at 128 and it made a perfectly clean and accurate trace to which i then added your original colors. worked fine, no edge trouble at all. in fact a traced object will not show “blurring” of edges. even if it’s edge detection is a bit off, trace will always show a clean vector edge.
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Hi Ronaldo
thanks so much for the info, i did what you had written above but the last swirl disappeared (the green one) after i had selected simple trace and default, both showed the same result, the green swirl was missing and the edges looked pixelated (blocky i think would be a descriptive word) at zoom of 100 %) isn’t a vector supposed to be able to expand/contract and show the exact same resolution at all sizes ? not sure what to do now 🙁 I’ve been at this for 4 hours and have gotten nowhere.
would you mind telling/showing me if possible, how you did all the steps, I’d really appreciate it- feeling really stupid right now
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i just opened your jpeg in illustrator, selected it’s layer, then select live trace/options, used default black/white settings and click trace. then convert the layer to live paint and use the paint bucket to add your original 3 colors. you’re right, it will scale to any size with no pixelization. i don’t know how to attach a file to these posts but i can send/post the illustrator file if you let me know where.
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^_^ you’ve saved my life O_O
after i answered you, i opened the original and have been painting / erasing bits and pieces where they stick out, not looking too good though.
here’s my email: fatimahj07@gmail.com
thank you so much, i really appreciate this.
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