[Richard Harrington]

Whiel there is a trace function ia AI 2…. it does not work well on pixelated artwork. It is meant for scanning in hand drawings (at high-res) and converting them to vector.

Blowing up small raster artwork just produces garbage. The only thing I’ve ever down with reasonable success is take an image and resize exactly 200% with nearest neighbor.

While I use Genuine Fractals a lot… I use it to upres video frame grabs. Logos off websites are often 75 pixels across… you need eight times that for a video graphic… so pretty damn near impossible.

You’d have better luck getting a business card or brochure and scanning… I’ve also mined websites for PDFs which often have high-res logos in them

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[Richard Harrington]

You can scale up the ones in Ai… or donwload spray brushes from Adobe Exchange or Graphics Authority

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[Richard Harrington]

You can now select more than one layer at a time… Cmd+Click on multiple names to select more than one layer

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[Richard Harrington]

You’re welcome… you might want to use the Inverted action since it looks like you are working on Avids.

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[Richard Harrington]

But not layer styles, or blending modes, or if you change the stacking order of layers, or add layers etc.

Stay away from layered PSD import into FCP unless its an absolute must.

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[Richard Harrington]

You don’t….

You need to look for a label manufacturer who sells labels…. then get their template… then look for a label printing program that’s calibrated for that sized label sheets.

Check Uline

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[Richard Harrington]

Try the search posts option and you’ll find an answer.. or even just look half a page down at the subject Alpha?

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[Richard Harrington]

I’m guessing that you have color managment on then which is getting in the way.. turn color management off and compare the two images

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[Richard Harrington]

Place the image over a transparent background with Place Command… then run the create Alpha channels from visible layers action (part of the Video set in the Actions palette – you may need to load it from the pull down menu)

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[Richard Harrington]

Original 8 bit image…. Millions of color
GIF – Indexed color 256 or less

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Author: Photoshop CS for Nonlinear Editors
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Check out the new DVD: Photoshop CS: Essentials for Digital Video from http://www.photoshopforvideo.com

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