I need to get rid of some color in a logo. 1

[Flyingfisher9]

I have a existing logo that has white lettering and a black background. I want to remove the balck background, so that I can put just the white on a blue section of my design. Any Ideas?

 

[Nexsus]

hard to say anything about this without looking at the file. is it a eps/pdf file importet to illustrator? You shuld be able to use the white arrow tool beside the black one to sort it out (the arrow tool/selection tool).

 

[Flyingfisher9]

Sadly, its an imported tiff file of an exisiting logo.

 

[itchybug]

Flyingfisher:

Here's a possible workaround:

1. Draw a rectangle, fill with black, and send it behind the existing tiff; It should be a little larger than the tiff;
2. Select the tiff and the rectangle, go to the transparency palette, and from the flyout choose "Make Opacity Mask"; You should now have the white portion of the art showing in black, and nothing else;
3. Object>Rasterize;
4. From the appearance palette flyout, choose "Add New Stroke";
5. Effect>Path>Outline Object;
6. Object>Expand appearance, then select only the raster portion and throw it out.
You should now have a useable, but not clean, vector path. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

Or, you could make a path in Photoshop and bring it into Illustrator.

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[Flyingfisher9]

I ended up just doing it in photoshop and importing it as a psd file.

Thanks for your comment though.