• I need some quick Illustrator guidance! It's probably very easy.
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Hey, I just started working with AI so I'm very new to this. I made a shirt design in Photoshop and I need it in vector format, so I made an automated raster to vector conversion with AI, and it looks fine and all, but I need to clear the background. Now I figured out how to vectorize and part the layers, and I deleted the green background and green some of the other places. But when I try to remove the green around the kanji lettering, it just goes white. The vectorizing process hasn't actually deleted the white background beneath the green outlining. The outlining is supposed to be transparent/not there. I've uploaded a pic of what it's supposed to look like. 1. This is how it looks now, and I want the green outline to be clear or use it as a cut for the white background. [t]http://i.imgur.com/QBMt9dj.jpg[/t] 2. This is how it's supposed to end up. [t]http://i.imgur.com/XzBmW0o.jpg[/t]
try messing with pathfinder panel (window > pathfinder), try selecting the green and then the white and doing minus front
[QUOTE=PortalGod;50555561]try messing with pathfinder panel (window > pathfinder), try selecting the green and then the white and doing minus front[/QUOTE] Yeah thanks, that got some of it!! Cool. I used the "minus the upper" cut/thing/function, but the problem is that some of the smaller green spots apparently arent on the top. I've tried fiddling with the other functions but I can't seem to make it work. Any suggestions? [t]http://i.imgur.com/Ulg16ev.png[/t]
if you can't just bring those spots to the front (you might have to ungroup), try just messing with the other pathfinder functions
I would, but I don't even know how to bring them to the front.
select them (shift to select more than one) (might have to use direct selection if they're grouped) and ctrl/cmd + shift + ]
I finally figured it out. Thanks a bunch man!
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