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kanaloa
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Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:33 pm |
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When performing a Live Trace in Illustrator how can I remove the background?
I keep tracing (vectorizing) images that I need, but the white background stays on the image. How can I get rid of the white background before exporting the image into Photoshop? I must be missing something really simple.
Thanks
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b_a88
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Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:45 pm |
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I'm not exactly sure what it is that your talking about. I've exporting to photoshop and I'm not getting any white background at all. Do you mean the whole background in back of every thing or a background in each vector shape?
EDIT: Ok I see what your talking about now. I'll try to see if I can find a solution.
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kanaloa
John C. Derrick |
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Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:52 pm |
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| b_a88 wrote: |
| I'm not exactly sure what it is that your talking about. I've exporting to photoshop and I'm not getting any white background at all. Do you mean the whole background in back of every thing or a background in each vector shape? |
If I trace an image using Live Trace, say a JPG image, the white BG also exports when I save the image. I am trying to find out how to keep my "wire frame" (of my image) and get rid of the background. 
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b_a88
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Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:58 pm |
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Ok here is what I found, when you do Live trace it does so with fills. It fills in the area that appears to be blank in Illustrator with white. I tried to do a trace by changing the options to stroke and I got no white background. It did however look different than the normal default live trace options, so I don't know if you will get the same results with stroke as you do with fill. I'll look into it more so see if I can find a way for the fill to work.
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kanaloa
John C. Derrick |
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Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:10 pm |
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Thanks 
I am able to remove the BG in photoshop, but it seems to leave a very small white border around the black frame of the items I'm tracing. It can be fixed, I figure there likely is a way to make them transparent from the start. |
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b_a88
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Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:13 pm |
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Ok I found another way. Once you have traced it go into the live trace section under object and select expand. This will expand the tracing to all the different parts. Now ungroup the tracing group, select the white areas and delete them.
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kanaloa
John C. Derrick |
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Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:41 pm |
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| b_a88 wrote: |
| Ok I found another way. Once you have traced it go into the live trace section under object and select expand. This will expand the tracing to all the different parts. Now ungroup the tracing group, select the white areas and delete them. |
Great, I'll give that a shot. Thanks  
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