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photoshop to illustrator?
Hi i have a customer with a design made in photoshop that i need to open in illustrator to cut.
he saved as an eps and i can open it but cannot ungroup the design to enable me to cut individual colours.
any ideas what format he can save it in to enable me to manipulate it in illustrator? im using cs3
thanks in advance
steve -
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Surely Photoshop can only save bitmaps etc regardless of the output type (eps). There won’t be any vector (cuttable) paths unless I’m reading this wrong.
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doubt you will be able to open it in illustrator. how was the file created before it was an eps?? if it was an illutrator file to begin with it needs to be saved as an eps in illustrator or even corel draw. if he is saving a jpeg file as an eps then its not gonna work. you would be able to ungroup colours only if it is a vector file to begin with.
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Thanks guys this is what I thought. looks like I will have to copy the design myself in illustrator.
steve
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If the file is hi res then i don’t see why you cant vectorize it. If it brings a good result then it’s gonna save you alot of hassel. to do this you need to use the live trace function.
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Also, be sure to check the Paths palette.. if you’re *very* lucky, the builder used some paths to build the different elements. Then in the File menu you can -> Export Paths to Illustrator.
Odds are slim, but it’s worth checking.
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the photoshop file..you will have to do clipping paths in photoshop and save the path..then take it into illustrator and you should be able to see that path and then you can create you cut path from that…I hope I told you this right..this all can be done..I will see if I can get you screen captions of how to do it and send it to you. You will have to wait until I get home I do not have screen captions on my pc at work..
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as said if its a rastor you cant cut it,
I recently had a similar thing with cut paths though, and Dan helped out
http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=45566Peter
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