Cs6 image trace. want all bk to wt. wt to bk

cs6 image trace of psd raster file to vector (preset black & white) comes out just GREAT. but i need all that cs6 output - all black must be white. all output white must be black.
this probably is best: all black must be white.
all white must be transparent.
i'm taking the lynda.com illustrator online class. don't see this.
thanks!
doug

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I'm trying to outline an image. In photoshop, I did find edges (save), then opened the image in illustrator and did image trace. I obtained a perfectly outlined image.
The problem: I can't obtain the same results using illustrator image trace alone.
I've adjusted the advance settings a few times to get the same result but with no luck. Threshhold and corner settings are ok, but I'm getting more paths and noise than I want, with the settings at low/1 respectively.
I also tried the gray scale setting since the image is mostly gray, expand, etc, but no dice).
Can you help?

The top donut-like shape is your original image, correct?
Hm...since you're not getting the results you want with Image Trace, I would try another approach. I don't usually use Image Trace alone since it isn't a perfect translation to vector. It can be very touchy with some images, this one being among them apparently.
Since it's a pretty simple shape, I would just manually trace it using the pen tool. That way you could also get that middle section filled with gray, and have a lot more control over how your image is traced. It will take a longer time however, so you might just want to stick with your Photoshop to Image Trace technique.

CS6 Image Trace Ignore White feature does not work as expected coming from Live Trace in 5 and 5.5

When I click ignore white in 5 or 5.5 using say a basic black and white image I'm tracing, I get zero white. Usually for our purposes, we will direct select the frame and remove it then drag select all the artwork and color it whatever pantone the customer needs, save, place in the InDesign document relevant tot he image, and send to print. In CS6, ignore white leaves, ironically, a ton of white so deleting the frame and then drag selecting gives you a question mark in color and of course it follows that coloring, colors all kinds of things. Same picture, two different versons of trace and our job just got alot more time consuming.

This is exactly the criticism that I have posted on occasion.
Instead of producing an orderly stack of objects like Streamline did, Live Trace produces compound paths.
So if you want to simplify your trace and avoid duplicate paths you need to release the compound(s) and rearrange the stack. This takes time and a certain amount of skill.
With Steamline you could of course make your own compounds if you needed them, but making a compound is a simpler business than releasing one and editing the colours of the resulting stack.
Does anyone know whether Streamline is available for OS X?

I scanned an image and want to use the image trace tool, but it doesn't pick up all the lines. Is there a way to darken the lines before using the image trace tool?

I scanned an image and want to use the image trace tool, but it doesn't pick up all the lines. Is there a way to darken the lines before using the image trace tool? Help!

If the scan is in B&W, then play with the Threshold setting here
If it's in Color, then you will have to open the scan in a Raster editing software (like Photoshop) and play with the Brightness/Contrast settings to make the lines bolder.

New Image Trace in Illustrator CS6 | Visual Design CS6 | Adobe TV

Product manager Brenda Sutherland Convert shows how to convert raster images to editable vectors using a completely new tracing engine in Illustrator CS6.
http://adobe.ly/IKo2Vu

While the Help videos are fun to watch, they are NOT AT ALL helpful. Imagine yourself as a new user (or a user migrating up from CS3-CS5 to Cloud CS6) who wants to learn how to use Illustrator Image Trace (or find where it was moved for this release) . Now, watch the videos currently posted. Where is this command located? Where are the presets located? Where are the tools located? It seems the demonstrators are right clicking on the mouse and using keyboard shortcut commands. which do not "show" on the video. Do we really need 12 minute videos?
As a long time user and sometime trainer, text instructions are much faster to search/read/refer and easier to remember than flashy graphics, loud music and a talking head.
The Adobe website forces users to be caught in a Contact Us loop when looking for help. For example, I spent 20 minutes looking for a printed version of a help file, 20 minutes in a chat session with a customer service rep who eventually gave me a number to call, then 57 minutes on the phone with a technician who was not familiar with the issues or the software. He did, however, help me find the PDF help file but we were unable to search for the words Paint or Trace ... until he looked it up (Ctl F). In fact, the only way to search the PDF file is to download it to the user's hard drive and use the Find command (Mac/PC). This was only for Illustrator. Same story for Photoshop (issue resolved by reinstalling) and In Design.
Honestly, the entire Creative Cloud experience has truly been frustrating - from download to support. If cars were like computers, we'd still be driving horse and buggies.

CS6 / Mac : I want to placate hand writen words on a jpg image.

CS6 / Mac : I want to placate hand writen words on a jpg image. The words are to be extracted from a letter I photographed on jpg. I guessed that was asked before, if anyone can redirect me to an appropriate tuto I didn't find yet. Thx.

Plonk, what I gave you was a very quick and easy way to achieve your goal, but it was, perhaps, simplistic. But without seeing the underlying image, or the scanned letter. My method relied on the text being black, and the paper it was written on being as near white as possible. It also need the underlying image to have no large areas of very dark tones, or obviously the black text will not show against it.
So to make it a decent test, I found this crumpled letter with a very off white background:
Adding a Levels Adjustment layer, and setting it thus:
I can move all those off white tones (as indicated by the right side of the histogram) to full white, like this
Notice the red arrow on the Levels Properties. Clicking on that icon clips it to the letter layer beneath it, so that it _only_ operates on that layer and no others. This is important. Incidentally, you should also set the levels layer's Blend mode to Luminosity - this prevents colour artifacts creeping in.
Placing the scanned letter layer, with its clipped Levels adjustment layer, we get the following. On the left the Letter layer Blend mode is set to Multiply. You could also use Darken (I bet you can workout why that would work) but Multiply gives a more solid black. The second example has the Blend mode set to Divide. This is a useful trick because it still gives contrast over dark tones, but the text would start to get thin where it overlays very light tones. The third example is the original letter with no Levels layer.
If you work in layout, you'll know that editors chose their images with overlaid type in mind. It would be fairly trivial to make the type black over light tones and white over dark tones by using layer masks with two type layers. You select either the dark or light area, and add a layer mask to the appropriate type layer. Then copy the mask to the other type layer and invert it. That ensures a perfect transition from one to the other.

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I'm loving CS6 Illustrator, except for one thing. Image Trace. Here, Adobe seem to have taken away the two most usefull settings from Live Trace, and replaced all the presets with ones that are pretty much unusable. I almost always used either 'Comic Art' or 'Lettering' to trace hand-drawn images, but they're both gone. None of the new settings are good enough, even if I make a custom one. The main issue is that the sliders in Image Trace are for completely different things to those in Live Trace, so it's difficult to translate one set of settings into the other.
With Image Trace, I cannot get the same results as with Live Trace, and so far, have found myself having to have Illustrator CS5 open at the same time as CS6, just so I can get workable traces.
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If not, does anyone know how to make the equivelant of Comic Art in Image Trace's new settings?
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Right: CS6 - This is a custom setting, but is the closest I have come to Comic Art thus far.
As you can see, the definition of Image Trace is far lower in quality than Live Trace, giving me one large connected blob of colour rather than the distictly separate lines produced in Live Trace.

I can't show the original as it is a HUGE file, 10000 pixels wide. I scan as high as my scanner will go. And that 10000 is shrunk down already so as not to exhaust my RAM. Below is a smaller version, but yes it is a b/w drawing but on a colour scan. It's been treated using Levels in Photoshop to remove the grey/blue colour of the paper, but nothing else.
I can see round the edges of the black in Photoshop that there are bits of colour, mainly reds/yellows. What do you think I need to do to it to help it trace better?
Actually, I'll throw in my Image Trace settings too, so people can see what settings I'm currenty trying... I got the Threshold directly from Comic Art in CS5.5.

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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.
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Sriegel,
Thank you my friend. For future reference to anyone else who may be mystified by this, here is the actual location of the command:

I am used to that when I open an image in Bridge it will be opened in PS, with all preferenses I have done to the image. Now it opens in PS but without any changes i have don e in Bridge. Also when I open a new image I want it to be opened in Camera Raw a

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