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    Illustrator how can I "simplify" this set of objects?

    EDIT: I GOT AN ANSWER ELSEWHERE. THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME, BUT PLEASE DISREGARD THIS THREAD. I WOULD HAVE DELETED THE THREAD BUT DON'T KNOW HOW. I have this image, which came in the form of a jpeg or similar pixelated format, and I opened it in AI CS5 and did a live trace to vectorize...
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    Illustrator How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    It will be a long-term thing. Is there any AI learning program you would suggest?
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    Illustrator How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    Thanks Hawkeye, but while the technique you just explained is something I should learn, I was apparently unclear about what my original question was. This image shows what I'm trying to do. I can do this in PS but don't know how in AI.
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    Illustrator How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    Does anyone have ideas on how I can get the outline effect I'm trying to get? Thanks
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    Illustrator How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    Yeah, I know that the text is crappy low-res, non-vector. I tried to locate the font so I could remake that part but no luck--I'm trying to get the person who created the original to send me a vector version. If that doesn't happen, I could open it in PS at really high resolution and then...
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    Illustrator How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    OK. But I looked at the drop-down menu for Live Trace and it doesn't have anything called "line art" or similar as far as I can tell.
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    Illustrator Is there a way to "simlify" a stroked layer so that it maintains ratio when resizing?

    Re: Is there a way to "simlify" a stroked layer so that it maintains ratio when resiz Awesome! That was it! Thanks.
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    Illustrator How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    It looks like CS5, which is the version of AI I have, doesn't have "image trace" as an option--looks like it doesn't come in until CS6.
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    Illustrator How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    I have the following image, in two layers, and I am trying to basically stroke the text with white (or transparent) in order to create a visible separation from the background "cog" image layer. I know how to do this in Photoshop (Modify>expand, then erase the expanded area) but have been...
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    Illustrator Is there a way to "simlify" a stroked layer so that it maintains ratio when resizing?

    I created the following image (actually, a recreation of a crappy scanned image), and made the cross thing in the diamond with the pencil tool, but had to stroke it out to get it thick enough to match the original. Then I had to resize the whole image so that it can be made into a die, but...
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    Tom, I do like the last tracing you did. Looks quite close to the original shape. What I mean by bitmap is the color profile. The die-maker told me before (when they were still using the old film technique) that after creating the logo I need to convert the mode to bitmap and save it as a...
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    Thanks. I've messed around with all the suggestions in this thread on different artwork (and you're definitely right ALB that some of it is pretty bad) and still am not satisfied with a lot of it. I just don't know what the hell to do. Is there another way to guarantee a true black and white...
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    That's pretty good--prob good enough for my purposes. How long did it take you to do that? I imagine you're really good at it, too, so it would likely take me 5 times as long. Did you do that in Photoshop and then copy/paste into AI to live trace?
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    I don't understand what all the trace parameters do, but I have fiddled with it a bit and nothing seems to get it any closer to the way it's supposed to look than the default settings. Are there any other tricks to smoothing out the image before running trace so that it comes out true? Would...
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    Thanks Tom but I still don't get it. If you compare these two images you should see clear distortion between the first and the second. The second one, to which I applied live trace, is all wonky. I am very unfamiliar with AI, but I have AI CS5.1 on this Mac that I use. I opened the EPS in...
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    Ok, so I copied and pasted into AI and then hit "live trace", which I've messed with before, but the image comes out deformed as you can see in this image (compare to original high-res "missionary chocolates small.tif" above). I've tried playing with different thresholds and stuff but can't...
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    The die comes out looking exactly like the bitmap version of this logo--with really jagged edges. Sorry I couldn't embed the images. It won't let me for some reason--it says "invalid file".
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    Converting photoshop files to EPS?

    Hello, I do hot foil stamping, which requires me to take a logo and turn it into a metal die (copper or magnesium) for printing. My die-maker used to use a film and chemical process to etch the logo onto the die, but has recently switched to a direct-to-plate method that gets rid of the...
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    How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    Now if I want to turn layer 0 solid black what's the best way to do that?
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    How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?

    Nevermind! I figured it out. This is awesome thank you so much!
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