CS 2 Live Trace vs CS3 or CS4?

I have tried with limited success to use CS2 Live Trace, did Adobe improve this appl. in CS3 or CS4?? I have a hard time getting it to hold live weights.

Well, I have not received the log files from rwctze so far. So I was not able to investigate it further.

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How to display Live Trace settings in CS3?

I'm on CS3 - I remember before having a horizontal bar across the top showing the tool properties, but I can't figure out how to show that. Particularly for Live Trace - I want to have access to the different tool options - how do I show this at the top or change the settings?

Ah yes! thank you

Set CS6 Live Trace Settings to CS4 Settings

Hi everyone.
I am having a frustrating problem. When I Live Trace a hand drawn map I've made in CS4, it comes out perfectly, converting the lines I've drawn to vector perfectly, when using the default settings. However, in CS6 the default settings don't capture half of the lines and changes the way they look. I tried matching the CS4 and CS6 tracing option menus up, but there are different setting categories between the two. Can anyone help me figure out what the CS6 settings should be to match the CS4 default settings?
Your help is appreciated!
Thanks!

It totally depends on the nature of the image and on your expectations. Even with a simple image there are dozwns of possible settings combinations.
What I always do in these situations: turn on preview, adjust the settings and try to figure it out. There are no generally correct settings for this.
You have to decide: do you want it exact, but with more anchors and maybe a little sketchy lines? Or do you rather want smooth curves and sacrifice a little "exactness"? You have to decide this for every image you trace again and again.

Illustrator CS4 - Batch Live Trace all images in one directory?

Hello everyone
I have 200 pages or so scanned at the same resolution from a notepad, which I would like to vectorize.
Since they're all pretty much similar I'd imagine the trace settings can be consistant for all of them
I'd rather not Live trace each one in illustrator, would take ages..
Is there a batch command for this or a recommended alternative method?
Thank you!

Yes, Bridge can do it as well, but as of CS5 it ignores the "Ignore White" option, and another user was advised to use Illustrator. I see this as a bug that needs to be repaired in Bridge. Else, why have the command? There are some other bugs associated with this and other batch commands that need to be fixed up. AI doesn't record "Live Trace" button action (you have to go to the menu item.) And it ignores "Fit Artboard to Artwork Bounds" as well.
They really need to come up with an all-round universal solution to batch processing for the different products.

Illustrator cs3 unresponsive after live trace

after placing an .psd image into illustrator and using
live trace function, illustrator will only let me save the file. after saving i have to quit
and restart to work on the file again. this process continues on certain lar
ge files. what gives? thanks in advance!

w/ 2gb ram
Not particularly much. Even if AI itself as a 32bit application never uses more than 2GB, it doesn't have it all on your system. You know, operating system and other stuff taking memory, too.... Quite clearly on a heavy live trace with lots of anchor points and paths this could be too much. If it's an option, you might consider a selective approach, i.e. working at lower image resolutions if something is only a large area or by extracting specific features in Photoshop by turning the image into greyscale/ limited color palette images. while there, you may also use selections and convert them into paths, which you then could copy&paste into AI.
Mylenium

How can I live trace a hand sketch line work and cut from background to apply to new coloured backgr

I placed a hand drawn scanned photo of artwork to illustrator cs4 in an attempt to trace the lines and remove from paper and add the line drawing to a brochure artwork. this to give illusion of an old artist's manuscript with drawings. first attempt with the psd file in trying to apply trace as a "hand drawn " method crashed illustrator. I tried again and used ink drawing which came out blotchy. Tried simple trace and got a warning that the file was too large. I'm thinking that the drawing itself is very soft and the paper around it is grainy and dim. I had tried to brighten and lighten in the scan mode.I did get it as far as a trace at one point and used outline stroke but then couln't fill in the lines or cut it out. I have taken it to photoshop and drew a pen selection around the soft lines and used a transparent background on it, hoping to stroke it in illustrator and drag it off over to the brochure template .But didn't try it yet. I also just made the resolution 250 and the size document to 6 x 9 in approx. But now am fearful of another experiemental attempt. Am I on the right track or is there another method to bringing in a line drawing that is not defined well and getting it to trace and remove from it's background to apply onto the illustrator document being worked on. I have done placing and tracing before but not a line work. Any suggestions that won't crash my program would be welcome. As an artist I will want to do this again and again so want to know the proper method or what I am missing. I've been using illustrator for 7 months now.

Maybe Li[ve trace] is not t]he way[ to go
I have some suggestion one leave it as is and use a blending mode of multiply to give it a color background like this
leave it as is make it a grayscale tiff import int Illustrator and color it it in Illustrator like this
Or trace over it with the brush tool aand then give it a color ground.
Or do the original over and do a cleaner job with no tone or a minimum of tone. Then Live trace.

End of Upgrade Cycle for CS3 and CS4... Really Adobe?

As if business wasn't bad enough now I see there will be no upgrade paths past december for CS3 and 4 users. Is this how Adobe plans to keep users away from stopping their upgrades and reducing the number of machines they run Adobe products on? I understand Adobe is not a non-profit and has has to turn a revenue, but the geniuses at Marketing here have made a huge mistake by basically telling their customers that what they have so far will be worth zilch in comes 2013. That arbitrary deadline, is not consider some people who on the east coast are now cash strapped as anyone having to choose between home repairs and other such marvelous stuff and upgrading to CS6 guess what they'll choose. And for the lucky ones not heavily affected by the storms, they will donate to help their community before they will spend money to upgrade perfectly good software.
It wasn't enough that the upgrade path wasn't much of a discount, but in the current economy every penny counts! The choice of stopping support for CS3 and CS4 in my personal opinion an ill-advised move. I personally went from 3 to 4 within a short amount of time... then when 5 came out my budget didn't allow so I needed to wait. The new CS6 isn't direly needed so I decided I'd have to loose some additional "upgrade power" because money need to be directed elsewhere now... but the news that I'd loose all the upgrade power and would have kept on upgrading for nothing it's just ridiculous... and if that's the treatment a customer will have to expect from now on I think I'll use what I have and move to alternatives stopping to personally support Adobe products an rely on licensed copies at work instead. Perhaps Adobe hasn't notices we aren't exactly doing that great in US between the current economical situation, the various setbacks experienced across the country and for the fact that in this particular business most work is often being outsourced out of US these days... I am sure you will have a huge market on the countries where the outsourced work is being sent... as far as I am concerned comes 12/31/2013 I will no longer be an Adobe customer as Adobe is forcing me out of the upgrade cycle and I won't plan to re-enter anytime soon in the coming future... lesson learnt.
Thank you for your time (if any of the marketing gurus will have cared to read this far without laughing and discounting with a "screw those old customers, they should've upgraded earlier" which was basically the content of the email I got this week... pasted below)
Cheers,
tfbkny
Content of email received from Adobe saying last chance to upgrade now or what you got will be worthless in less than a couple months.
Dear Creative Suite customer:
We want to make sure you're aware of an important change to Adobe's upgrade policy that may affect you.
Beginning January 1, 2013, only Creative Suite customers with licenses for CS5 or CS5.5 versions will qualify for upgrade pricing to CS6.
Due to this change, we will only continue offering CS3 and CS4 customers like you special upgrade pricing through December 31, 2012.*
* Owners of CS3 and CS4 individual products and suite editions will be eligible to receive upgrade pricing to CS6 until December 31, 2012. After that date, only customers on CS5 or CS5.5 will qualify for upgrade pricing to CS6.

Adobe doesn't care, they don't have to. I like Phsotoshop and have been using it professionally for 20 years, but lets face it, I wouldnt mind some really good competition from another source. It didnt use to be the only game in town, and doesnt have to remain so.
I could brainstorm how I would want competing software to look like. Pshop is not the easiest workflow possible. Illustrator is clearly deficient to even CorelDraw, and certainly Freehand. I've been meaning to reconnect with CorelDraw. It did some cool things.
Google Chrome is pulling a lot of manoevers software wise and I hope they try to go a little deeper and give Adobe a run for their money on the one program they feel justifies unbelievable gouging. Go investigate Ableton Live if you want to see what a company that cares about its customers is doing, ADOBE. Audition is a JOKE compared to Ableton Live. Thank God we're not powned on the audio side by these suits.
The idea that a company would peddle buggy software, which CS4 was..., although some of that was Apple's fault, is bad, the upgrade prices were ridiculous, and this is the end of the road for me currently. The idea that a company would actively
push away customers is pretty incredible. "But I sent you an email!" Whoops, you gotta pay $1900 for production premium CS6! HAHAHAHAHA. Time for a YT video with my old hard copy box. Sounds like a good idea.
There are too many options on the motion graphics side, and I'll keep a static machine to run Pshop and AE CS4.
The masters of the universe will have theit way, and the rest must bow to their ambivalent greed. At least that's the way they think. It would seem that Adobe and Apple really, really want some upstarts to come up. Maybe $360 for a year to figure out an exit might work. It will be interesting to see if this hits earnings. VERY interesting.

Stroking and filling doesn't work in paths expanded from Live Trace

I’m using Adobe Illustrator CS4. I’m a complete beginner, though I’ve done a bit of reading about the basics.
After tracing a bitmap image (of black letters on a transparent background, in pdf format) using Live Trace, expanding it, and editing the paths with the pen tool to my satisfaction, I find neither fills nor strokes appear -- I can change the fill settings or stroke settings, but the paths just stay the colour of all unfilled paths on that layer. (I’m viewing the document in preview mode.) Also, when selecting paths with either the Selection tool or the Direct Selection tool and then trying to use Live Paint, I get a notification that "the selection contains objects that cannot be converted. Live Paint groups can only contain paths and compound paths. Clipping paths are not allowed." When I go to the Object Menu, under Clipping Mask the only available option is "Make Mask", and "Release" and "Edit Mask" are greyed out, which suggests to me there are no clipping masks present.
I’ve created a separate, nearly identical document where strokes, fills and Live Paint work fine. The only difference is that when I used Live Trace on the bitmap image, for the non-working document I selected "Outlines" for the Vector section of the View options (in the Tracing Options dialogue box), and in the working one I selected "Tracing Result" instead. For both, I used the same original document settings, placed the same bitmap image, used the Live Trace preset "Black and White Logo" with all the default settings except that I checked the "Ignore White" box, and then clicked Expand.
Obviously, I know what I did wrong, though I don’t know why it made a difference. But since I spent many hours editing the paths in the screwed-up document before I realized stroking and filling wouldn’t show up, is there a way to fix it? How can I make the paths "valid" for stroking, filling, and Live Paint -- or, failing that, is there a way to somehow copy or automatically trace the shape of the paths, so I don’t have to do all that editing again?
This is kind of urgent, since I’m creating a logo for a project that needs to be finished soon. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I could send someone the document by e-mail if you wanted to look at it properly -- since I’m a beginner, I don’t know what I need to describe.

Never mind! I fixed it. For anyone else who has this same problem -- apparently, I’d made it so the paths were actually guides, which can look like and possess the properties of paths but which don’t show when you print. After going to View, Guides, Release Guides, the fills and strokes manifested, and the paths became "valid".

How can I select and delete the fill color (white background) of a live trace (B&W) with in an actio

How can I select and delete the fill color (white background) of a live trace (B&W) with in an action set?
Illustrator CS4 in windows XP.

Maybe Li[ve trace] is not t]he way[ to go
I have some suggestion one leave it as is and use a blending mode of multiply to give it a color background like this
leave it as is make it a grayscale tiff import int Illustrator and color it it in Illustrator like this
Or trace over it with the brush tool aand then give it a color ground.
Or do the original over and do a cleaner job with no tone or a minimum of tone. Then Live trace.

A problem about Live trace

Hello, I use Adobe illustrator CS4 in MAC, I often used function of Make and convert to Live paint for my work.
But One day i found a serious problem in used this function, I really don't know cause.
Pleae look at the image under.
This gray things are problem in red circle.
I tested in another computer, Live Trace> Make and convert to live paint is worked well.
Like this.(Illustrator CS5..is it cause of program's version?)
anyway, this problem made in Just my mac. HELP ME!

The function works the same in both versions.
Take a look at the options.

Filling "Ignore White" holes after Live Trace/Expand

I'm relatively new to Illustrator CS4's Live Trace feature but have been using it a lot lately. When I place a Photoshop image (shot on white background) using Live Trace with the "Ignore White" box selected, it does a nice job of knocking out the background. However, after I Expand the Trace to create a vector image, I am often left with see-through hot spots on the object itself. When I try to select a hot spot to fill it with white, I can't select it. Normally one would use the Group Selection tool to select a specific path but the "holes" can't be selected. The only thing I can think of is to place a white "patch" behind the the object. Any other simpler ideas out there? Thanks!

First - before you can edit any LiveTrace object, you must expand the artwork (Object>Expand or Expand Apearance).
The paths created in LiveTrace are compound paths. You'd have to release the compound paths (Object>Compound Path>Release). All paths will default to the fill color of the original. Select the paths you want to color and fill.
You could avoid this by not ignoring the white when you trace. After expanding, use the direct selection tool (open or white arrow) to select the white background and delete. If you need some of the remaining white areas transparent, you may now select these and their surrounding elements and create compound paths.
One other way, again after expansion of the artwork, would be to use the LivePaint tool. Select the artwork, choose the LivePaint tool, convert to LivePaint object (Object>LivePaint>Make), then fill as needed.

Removing gridpaper lines on scans with live trace?

Hi everyone
In my continuing struggle to get the 'perfect' scanned images vectorized I would like to solicit the advice of the forum again
i wish to remove/ignore in live trace the grid lines that are printed on certain notepad paper, but whilst retaining the inked/drawn images I have added myself.
Is there a plugin, recommended exterior app, or Illustrator process that can quickly do this?
Often these grid lines intersect the scanned image, which is the problem.
I use CS4..
Thank you!

I would use white-out (the white paint used to correct typing errors back in the typewriter days).
However, make sure you apply it to the grid lines on the graph paper and not the image on your monitor. Some white-out paints are oil-based and will wreak havoc on the protective surface coating found on most LCD monitors.
OK... seriously... I would clean up the scan in Photoshop before bringing it into Illustrator. (Select | Color Range will make quick work of it... unless you were boneheaded enough to sketch in the same color as the grid lines.)

Problem with Live Trace?

Hi,
I'm having some trouble with Live Trace which I've never encountered before. It could just be my inexperience with Ilustrator, but every time I click Live Trace, the image turns all black. I've tried different presets, and this doesn't change anything. The image I've imported is a Photoshop file so it should work, and has worked before.
Anybody had this before? Any suggestions?
Kind Regards,
Jack

I'm working through a Classroom in a book in CS4 Illustrator, so the image shouldn't be a problem as its specific for that exercise. The image is a PSD of a snowboarder so unable to upload to the thread.
Tracing Options: Preset: Default, Mode: Black & White, Threshold: 128, Trace Settings: Fills (though Strokes and Fills or just stokes on preview mode still keep the image black). View: Raster: No Image, Vector: Tracing Result, Path Fitting: 2px, Blur: 0px, Resample: 200px, Corner Angle 20, Minimum Area: 10px.
Jack

Problems with black fills in live trace(d) eps images in Word and certain printers

Hi folks, PLEASE help me with this if you know a possible solution. I regularly run Live Trace in Illustrator CS3 on my grayscale bmp or tiff scanned images, save them as an eps, then folks in other departments insert them into Microsoft Word pages. Sometimes these images display in Word with unintended black fills, and some printers print them out with the same corrupted appearance, yet some other printers print them fine (even if the display in Word shows them with the unintended black fills). I THINK this might be a postscript issue (?). I don't have the option of telling everyone to change from Word to InDesign (which would absolutely solve the problem immediately). Is there something I can set while performing Live Trace? They really need the eps files, so I don't have the option of saving them as another format. HELP! Thanks...

I use Mac at home and love it. At work, we use PC platform. I can't save as a pdf because they need to stay vector graphics. he departments want us to save the eps in version 8 because they're STILL using Windows 2003 (ugh). I keep thinking there must be something I can do while in Live Trace because we've never noticed any inintended black fills in graphics not created using Live Trace. Somehow, Word and some printers are not interpreting some postscript language correctly. InDesign has zero issues with it. Some printers have no problem with it, so I assume they are postscript printers. There's got to be a way I can still save as an eps but without the postscript conflict (IF that's what it is).

Can't find live trace

using CS4 XP.
No matter how many tutorials I try to follow, the "live trace" function, which I would like to use to create simple vectors, is no where to be found.
Any ideas why this function seems to be missing ?

Live trace is Illustrator, not Photoshop

CS 2 Live Trace vs CS3 or CS4?

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