[smartasien]

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could help me with the magic wand tool in illustrator CS2. It doesn't seem to b working on my picture like it does in photoshop. I try to select white areas but they aren't selected. Any ideas?

 

[jdr8271]

Illustrator is a vector based program as opposed to Photoshop which is a raster based program.

Illustrator will not be able to edit your raster images. You will need to do that in photoshop before bringing them over to illustrator.

 

[smartasien]

the thing is. I already used the live trace feature to vectorize the picture and even saved it under .ai and .eps and it still doesn't want to select anything.

Also whenever i try to bring raster images with the white areas all cut out so its just the checkerboard showing, illustrator automatically fills it in w/ white again...

 

[jdr8271]

Save your files in photoshop as .psd files with transparent backgrounds. Then go to illustrator and open up the .psd file with the transparent background, and the background will show up in illustrator transparent as well.

 

[smartasien]

Alright i think i realized what happened. Whenever u vectorize, a white background is automatically added to all the transparent areas. Is there anyway to bypass this?

 

[Studio490]

There might be a setting in the tool preference.

Terry White has a great podcast about Live trace. It might help.