MikeThorne
Technical User
HI
This is driving me crazy.
I always did this in Streamline when I had older versions of Illustrator.
I have a simple piece of line art, 5 shapes in a ring that form a fan like design like a turbo blade.
I want to bring it into Illustrator and turn it into a vector graphic.
I created a new page, then imported the Tif file into Illustrator.
Next I used live trace using the "Black and White Logo" option.
At this point when I select it, it will only show me the outline of the page I imported.
Next I used Live Paint, once this process was complete I could see the outline of the blades and the sheet when I selected it.
I can see the points on the path, etc.
The problem is that it is locked so that I can not select any of the components separately or change them, most important I can't remove the white background and leave only the Blades as objects by themselves.
What am I doing wrong?
I need to get the blades to appear as independent pieces of art and then remove parts of them that are not visible one the type over laps them, using pathfinder's trim tools.
Mike
This is driving me crazy.
I always did this in Streamline when I had older versions of Illustrator.
I have a simple piece of line art, 5 shapes in a ring that form a fan like design like a turbo blade.
I want to bring it into Illustrator and turn it into a vector graphic.
I created a new page, then imported the Tif file into Illustrator.
Next I used live trace using the "Black and White Logo" option.
At this point when I select it, it will only show me the outline of the page I imported.
Next I used Live Paint, once this process was complete I could see the outline of the blades and the sheet when I selected it.
I can see the points on the path, etc.
The problem is that it is locked so that I can not select any of the components separately or change them, most important I can't remove the white background and leave only the Blades as objects by themselves.
What am I doing wrong?
I need to get the blades to appear as independent pieces of art and then remove parts of them that are not visible one the type over laps them, using pathfinder's trim tools.
Mike