JoeSamuels
Technical User
Hello!
I am admittedly an Illustrator newb (used to Photoshop,) working withing with Illustrator CS.
I did a vectored design for some people to be used as a t-shirt, and they have asked me to separate the colors to different layers to ease printing.
If it were a matter of just dragging/dropping/moving all the paths to separate layers, it would be no trouble...but in my lack of foresight, I have some colors/shapes that go behind others and moving (for instance) all the browns to the top, messes up the image.
Is there a way or a filter I can separate all the colors to different layers, like tracing them? For instance, in Photoshop I'd just use the color selection tool, copy, paste to new layer, and ta-da, all the browns to one layer, all the oranges to another, etc. Does Illustrator have anything like this or some other kind of trick?
Am I doomed to have to redo the entire design?
Thank you very much!
I am admittedly an Illustrator newb (used to Photoshop,) working withing with Illustrator CS.
I did a vectored design for some people to be used as a t-shirt, and they have asked me to separate the colors to different layers to ease printing.
If it were a matter of just dragging/dropping/moving all the paths to separate layers, it would be no trouble...but in my lack of foresight, I have some colors/shapes that go behind others and moving (for instance) all the browns to the top, messes up the image.
Is there a way or a filter I can separate all the colors to different layers, like tracing them? For instance, in Photoshop I'd just use the color selection tool, copy, paste to new layer, and ta-da, all the browns to one layer, all the oranges to another, etc. Does Illustrator have anything like this or some other kind of trick?
Am I doomed to have to redo the entire design?
Thank you very much!