How can I get rid of blue box around my item?

[Tinatoes]

Hi everyone,

Hope you can help me. I have been sent a piece of work it is a man and I want to change the colours of his clothes. The file was sent as an eps to me. Usually it opens up in photoshop, I save it as an illustrator file. Once I have done this I just click on the subject and everything is highlighted and I just change any part of him to a different colour. This time however, there is a blue box around him and I cant just click on him, when I do nothing happens. If I try to pull on the box with the mouse it distorts him. Have tried to do it on my own but I just cant and would appreciate any advice.

Look forward to hearing from anyone who could advise me.

Many thanks

Tinatoes

 

[zbphill]

Check your layers, you can select what color the layer is. open your layer table and see if there is a couple layer and if one is blue.

 

[itchybug]

Tina:

Sounds to me like this is the old "I'll send you an eps" trick, where somebody saved a jpeg or other bitmap format embedded in an eps. It will not magically become a vector image (which is what you were expecting)...

You could try to use the "Live Trace" feature if you have CS2, to make a vector image from the raster image.

Read up on the feature in the Help files... If you still get stuck, check back here.

Bert