How do you eliminate the background on a scanned image brought into illustrator? I am trying to avoid recreating the image by tracing.
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- Jun 2003
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It would be much easier to use Photoshop since it's a raster image.
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- Jul 2003
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You can do it in Illy but you still have to use the Pen tool. Create a path that follows the contour of your image then select image, and path then goto Object>clipping mask>make (might just be called Mask, they changed it somewhere along the line to CS).
Seems like I've written that same answer 4 times this week.
Otherwise do what Ryan said and bring it into photoshop. If you have PS7 use the mask function or try the extract.
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- Jul 2004
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yea... wow doing that in AI would be torturous but doable if you ware willing to path it out. In ps though, depending on colors and contrasts it can be a 5 min job or a 5 hour job. If you want a silo, then do it in PS and export to AI.
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LOL! Yeah, but I forgot completely about doing the work path in Photoshop, Dak.
Thanks for the pickup.
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