wootan
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Mar 30, 2006, 5:09 AM
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Re: [Laura K] CS2...How to PS to Vector ...
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Here are a couple of options. In Photoshop, you can select areas of your image and make them work paths in the paths tab. Once you have made all of your selections paths, you can export them as paths to illustrator, and then open them in illustrator as vector art. When you open the image in illustrator, it usually appears as an empty image. On the PC type ctrl-A on the Mac hit Command-A to select all, and you will see your paths which are usually transparent in color and then fill them in with a color of your choosing. Your results will vary depending on the complexity of the image. Simple stuff works pretty well, complicated images with overlapping imagery is usually awful and unusable. This will usually only give you a starting point in which you can modify in Illustrator to hopefully achieve the look you want depending on your comfort with bezier curves and using illustrator.
The other option, which is only available in Illustrator CS2 to my knowledge, is the live trace feature which was once adobe streamline, now incorporated into this program. Open your image or place it into a document, and then select the image and run the live trace feature (under objects menu I believe). There are several options you can play around with until it achieves at least a "close" approximation of the image. Again, the simpler the conversion, the better results.
I hope this helps.
WOOTAN
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Guess you got it figured out by now.