Break Apart A Vector Created in Image Trace? CS6

I realize this is probably simple, but I have taken a simple graphic pattern jpeg and I've used image trace to trace it in Illustrator CS6.
But when I try and select parts of the vector is just selects the entire image in a single big box.
How can I break it apart so that the individual vector parts and be copied, pasted, edited and so on?
Thanks,
Mark

You need to "Expand" it and then "ungroup" to select the different section in the image

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Image Trace CS6 moving results

When using image trace in CS6, illustrator seems to be shifting the results. Is there anyway to prevent this. I have several images that I am tracing along with other vector elements that need to stay in alignment with each other.
The Blue is the location of the original image and the black is the tracing result. I'm seeing this shift in each of the view modes and regardless of which preset I use. I've also tried leaving the image linked and embedding the image with no difference.
In addition, I am having a hard time getting black and white images to trace to the same quality I had in CS4. As you can see I'm getting pinched sections on lines even with a Path setting of 97-100% and Noise of 1 px. I also tried a path setting of as low as 20%, the pinching of the lines was gone, but it was so over generalized that I lost a lot of the other character.
In CS4 I was able to use path fitting 2px Min area 10px corner angle 20 and get this much better result
No shift, the white hole is preserved, there is no pinching of the line. I keep reading how the new image trace is supposed to be so much better, but I can't seem to find any evidence of it in a simple a black and white image.
Although, my main concern is the shift, any help getting a more accurate result would be appriciated.

could you post your results with both the original and the trace result? Black and white logo was one of the first settings I tried. Also, I should point out that my screenshots are of a zoomed in portion of the image I am tracing. The image itself has a dpi of 800. The shift that I see when I do tracing (even at the preset black and white logo) is 0.6mm x 0.4mm. While this may not sound significant, it does make a big difference in terms of registration with the numerous other elements in my file and is clearly visible at 100% zoom scale.
Also, I am not surprised that it was able to duplicate the sample you showed above in terms of detail, since you were using the more generalized unusable result from my sample. If you use my CS4 result as your starting point, are you able to capture the detail?
In my sample I also did not use strokes. Everything is an area path. That is what makes the differences between the CS4 results and the CS6 results seem more like a bug in CS6. Also, I tried to set my noise value to its lowest setting and it still removed areas greater than one pixel. Is there another preference inside of illustrator that controls the image trace options?
I understand that some images need cleaned up prior to tracing and have done that in the past, however, upgrading to CS6 should not mean that I now have to do even more prep work on my images to get the same (or in this case lower quality) results than I have in the past.

Quality of Image after Break apart

When breaking apart an image, there is sort of a 'residue'
attached to some parts where the image has connected.
Problem is explained with a picture below.
Picture
The image was imported from a Photoshop CS3 document which
can be found here for you reference.
Link
As you can see in the PSD there is no 'residue'.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
- Doc

Hi,
How did you import your image into Flash. Some times this
happened in the crossed sections of the PDS layers, try to expert
your layers from photoshop as PNGs.

Vectored images & Image Trace

I am new to Illustrator. I am using CS6. I used Image Trace to turn some .jpgs into vectored images. My printer is saying they are not vectored images but rather that they look like .jpgs that were placed in Illustrator. Every tutorial that I have read and Youtube video that I have watched says that Image Tracing something makes it a vectored image. What am I not getting? Is there something further that must be done after Image trace to turn something into a vectored file? Thanks for any help you can offer and please remember that I am new at this!

By image tracing a .jpg you did indeed turn this into a vector object. But the question is will this vectorized representation of the original image print satisfacirily.
If you were to Image Trace a photograph of yourself, and print both of them and compare, you would probably see the image traced version looks more like an illustration.
So the printer is seeing the image you traced and noticing the images look strange.
Will be your decision to tell them whether to go ahead and print this. Just know that you cannot image trace a low res image blow this up big, and expect this to look liek a hi res image. If you are ok with this not looking like a photograph, but more like an illustration, then go ahead and tell them about the image trace and that you are ok with this.

Can one extract (then edit, modify, etc.) paths created from an image trace? (CS6)

Hiya Adobe community,
This may date me a bit, but long ago I used to use freehand as my defacto drawing tool until I switched to AI. Back in those days, I also used "Streamline" (http://www.adobe.com/products/streamline/) to perform the functions image trace does today. While it's results were somewhat crude, the software provided me the vector points, paths and acnhors i needed. After every trace, I could manually edit the resulting vector traces.
I have been using CS6's tracing feature, but the one thing I cannot figure out for the life of me is the "Bounding box" issue for an imported image. Everytime I trace a drawing, AI's tracing results always place a bounding box around the traced image area. My goal: To trace an item, get rid of the bounding box and extract the outlines and paths so that I can then modify these to my linking.
Can this be done? Im sure it can,... I just cannot find out how. (Or am I making crack wishes?) All I'm saying, if Streamline allowed me to edit paths from a trace, then it'd be a shame if AI CS6 does not.
Check out the attached image for some content. Thanks in advance for any help!

Sriegel,
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Breaking Apart Images and Bitmaps in Color Panel

When I break apart a bitmap and use the eyedropper to sample
it and then fill in a shape, I notice that the bitmap also stays in
the color panel as a bitmap. Will this become a permanent part of
my Flash installation or is it only accessible for this file? I
opened a new file and it did not seem to appear for it. I just want
to make sure I understand the purpose of it displaying in the color
panel. What is the point of this?
Thanks.

Not sure I totally understand - the point is so you can pick
this swatch "color" again in this
document. If you delete the bitmap from the document's
library it will go away. If you open a new
doc it won't be there because the new doc doesn't contaqin
any imported/broken apart/color-picked
bitmaps.
I have to ask, what were you expecting to happen with this
particular swatch? Or rather, is there a
better workflow solution for you perhaps? Just curious.
Chris Georgenes
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StanWelks wrote:
> When I break apart a bitmap and use the eyedropper to
sample it and then fill
> in a shape, I notice that the bitmap also stays in the
color panel as a bitmap.
> Will this become a permanent part of my Flash
installation or is it only
> accessible for this file? I opened a new file and it did
not seem to appear for
> it. I just want to make sure I understand the purpose of
it displaying in the
> color panel. What is the point of this?
>
> Thanks.
>

Action batch export issue with image trace

So, currently I'm working on batch processing jpeg sequences using illustrator's image trace and distortion effects. I have batch exported the image traces of the sequences via Adobe bridge. Now I'm trying to create an action which opens the .ai files containing those image traces, apply a graphic style to the trace, and export a png from that. I'm banging my head against the wall trying to get this to work right now. If I do the steps (step by step... not using a recorded action) I want on a single file, it works great, but the moment I batch export using the action I've created, it puts the original .png image that the image trace was linked to, on top of the image. The result is a bunch of .png exports that look exactly like my original image sequence. If I add a "save" function to the action and open the resulting .ai files, I can see that the image trace vectors are in the file. The "linked png" however visible on the layer above those vectors. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? How do I get rid of that pesky linked image.
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While I'm at it, I might as well ask if anyone knows how to change the illustrator default image trace preset.... Without being able to change it, or much less specify in the action sequence that I'd like to use a user created image trace preset rather than the default setting, it's greatly overcomplicating my workflow. Makes what could easily be one-step batch processing into two. Seems pretty silly if you ask me.
Please, if you guys have any insights on this, let me know. It's super frustrating... By the way, if you're wondering what type of effect I'm going for, the idea (as well as some explanation into their own process) starts at 12:44 of this video (http://vimeo.com/77427470).
THANKS!

Just wanted to let you guys know, for anyone who might be having my same issue... My home computer, even after a fresh install of Illustrator, was still placing the linked jpeg over the traced vector shapes when batch exporting... I did however find a workaround. Rather than using Bridge CS6 for the batch image tracing, I used Bridge CS5 to trace in Illustrator CS5. Then, I used Illustrator CS6 to batch export an action that imported and applied an effect to those image traced sequences. When you do this, it forces you to expand the tracing on import (because of the difference in Illustrator versions I'm assuming). This way, when you batch run the action, it's already working with expanded vector shapes. Not sure why this works, but it does.
Also, I was having some issues getting Illustrator to apply the graphic style when batch exporting. I got it to work by copying an object with that particular graphic style to the clipboard, then adding in the action I was running a "paste" command, followed by a "clear" command. I can only assume that Illustrator was having issues loading custom graphics styles while batch exporting. The paste/delete technique is annoying, but gets it done.
Anyways. Just wanted to check in on this one. I'm happy I was able to muscle my way through it all.

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Extracted the image which gave me the vector that i needed
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Air for ios optimization with bitmap break apart

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I did check for that, and rechecked just now, and they're all unscaled. Plus, the code shows the correct dimensions and the issue doesn't exist on the computer - screenshots from the computer and the ipad don't match. It's only the ipad that's showing the distortion.
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My Design is breaking apart

My website breaks apart in a couple of areas when viewed in
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I checked the offending page in Dreamweaver but no errors
showed up.
Here are some specifics.
I created my web design in PhotoShop CS3, I sliced my site in
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Here is a link to my site.
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I am relative new to web design and I have never had this
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Any help that anybody can give will be greatly appreciated.
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great minds think alike, huh. :-)
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> This code snippet (from your page) is the crux of all
your problems:
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> </head>
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> You built a site using a graphics app. They create
fragile, inflexible
code.
> That approach should be used for prototyping only, if at
all. Create your
> graphics in your graphics app, export them only as
graphics (no HTML) and
> construct your site in DW.
>
> And forget trying to create a jugsaw puzzle, it will
inevitable break
apart
> when the visitor changes a setting in their browser such
as text size. A
> properly constructed webpage will be flexible.
>
> The only salvation for your page is to start over and do
it correctly.
There
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> Taking a Fireworks comp to a CSS-based layout in
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Dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/web_standards_layo
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>
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> Walt
>
>
> "JimmyMeeks" <[email protected]> wrote
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> news:[email protected]...
> > My website breaks apart in a couple of areas when
viewed in either
Firefox
> > v3.0.3 or Safari v3.1.2, but not in IE7.
> > I checked the offending page in Dreamweaver but no
errors showed up.
> > Here are some specifics.
> > I created my web design in PhotoShop CS3, I sliced
my site in FireWorks
> > CS3,
> > then put it together in DreamWeaver CS3. I use
minimal CSS in this site,
> > only
> > to give margins and padding to my paragraphs.
> > Here is a link to my site.
> >
http://www.yborcafe.com
> > I am relative new to web design and I have never
had this problem on
other
> > sites that I have designed.
> > Any help that anybody can give will be greatly
appreciated.
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Jimmy Meeks
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Results in Image Trace don't match Live Trace

I just started using CS6, jumping from CS3. A major tool I use is Live Trace, and I have custom settings for that. I cannot find a way to make Image Trace behave the way Live Trace did for black and white line drawings. The results I get in CS6 are far inferior to those I got in CS3 in terms of retaining the look of the original raster image. Help would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I will have to leave CS3 installed just to do my Live Trace.
Here is a sample of what I mean. You can see the quality degredation in CS6 compared to CS3. (And it's much more obvious when it's full size and full resolution.)
My settings used in Live Trace (CS3) were:
The settings I tried in CS6 that gave the above result were:
Thanks for the help!

I was very dissapointed to find out that CS6 is much inferior to CS5 or earlier versions when tracing black and white line drawings or comic art. By the way many users are of the same opinion. Here is a review of CS6 vs CS5 tracing results:
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/quick-tip-how-to-use-the-new-image-trace-i n-adobe-illustrator-cs6/
And here is my own experience. Whatever settings I try in CS6 the result is just terrible. This one is the best I could get. Details are lost. Lines are very thick.
In comparison, here is how wonderfully the same work is done by CS5, not to mention that I didn't even have to tackle with any settings at all. Just clicked the button Live Trace and got saticfactory results with the default preset.
These are original unreduced files:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61392902/Illustrator%20Bugs/Traced_in_CS5.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61392902/Illustrator%20Bugs/Traced_in_CS6.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61392902/Illustrator%20Bugs/Original_Raster_Drawing.jpg
P.S. It is sometimes possible to get good results in CS6, if you take the big drawing apart into small separate drawings. However it means a lot of additional work: tens of extra hours in a year in fact. Which, of coarse, undoubtfully means that CS6 is a step backwards if compared with CS5.
Besides some big complex drawings with many details can not be devided into a smaller ones. And if you don't have an earlier version of the program, in this case there is no way to get a quality trace at all!

Breaking apart

I want to create a SWF that is all raw vectors, so that if
this SWF is imported into an FLA, there won't be a series of
symbols in the library.
When I'm in an FLA and break apart frames of animation, I
find that the layering gets messed up.
So, does anyone know a way to globally break apart all the
frames and all the layers in an FLA and keep layering correct?
Thanks for any help

wow...I've never heard of this being done before (or even
wanting to be done). There's is no magic
one-click button for this - in fact you should test this for
yourself - make a simple 3 framed fla
with raw shapes in each frame - export to swf - import into a
new doc - each shape will be imported
but also grouped. Is this what you want? You are basically
looking for a way to flatten your
animation layers right?
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will flatten all layers down to one
layer anyway (SWF format is a compressed format). Then break
apart each frame all at once using Edit
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Chris Georgenes
Animator
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j9lemmon wrote:
> I want to create a SWF that is all raw vectors, so that
if this SWF is imported
> into an FLA, there won't be a series of symbols in the
library.
> When I'm in an FLA and break apart frames of animation,
I find that the
> layering gets messed up.
> So, does anyone know a way to globally break apart all
the frames and all the
> layers in an FLA and keep layering correct?
> Thanks for any help
>

I Can No Longer Break Apart Clip Items??

For some reason, I can no longer drag a clip from the browser to the main timeline, then lift and then proceed to break it apart into a video and seperate audio tracks. I was doing this all the time, but now this option seems to have disappeared. I tried repairing permissions... I can access the components of the clip with the "open in new timeline" option after dragging down the maintimeline and lifting, but that still doens't explain why I can't choose or shortcut to break it apart in the main timeline, when lifted, anymore??? Anyone else having this issue?
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Dustin, let me know if I haven't understood your post correctly.
You create a new project and set the frame rate to 23.98P
The media in your Events is 30P
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