Nice to hear that worked. I've always had some issues with auto trace. Not just text, but sometimes there are just those fine lines that won't do right. Most of the time I blur just a bit (like .1), drag the minimum area all the way to zero, then if it looks pixelated bump up until it looks ok. Make sure the corner is at zero. If that doesn't work, I set the type myself. LOL. Sorry I'm not much help! I will definitely follow your steps next time I have an issue!i just put it in ps and made it 650 dpi, then copied it and opened a new project with a dpi of 300 and pasted the image there. then i saved it as jpg and put it in illustrator and it traced fine.
I clean up every single image that I do. It's my reputation on the line every order.Live Trace is great, but not with text, as everyone else is saying. With images though, sometimes you will have to clean up the nodes (points on the lines) a bit by hand. I usually vectorize my ink drawings this way, but I always end up taking it into CorelDraw to clean up the nodes and color it. (cleaning nodes and lines is 100x's easier in CorelDraw than in Illustrator)
**I am curious, how many screen printers take time to clean up weird and out-of-place nodes in an image before printing it? Is it that important? (I imagine it depends on how big you are going to print the image, and how much $ is coming from the job)
They're funky because the image is of low resolution and possibly improper trace settings like too much smoothing. However, that image is relatively easy (very easy) to do from the ground up. Usually, as others have posted, traced image requires some cleaning up.i always have trouble with live trace. i can get it to trace but it always makes my letters look funky. here is a before and after of a image i tried a couple months ago. if anyone has hints please help.
notice on the second image the letters around the circle look very funky.
