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Article #50Re: Selecting Pieces of an Object in Illustrator - How?
From: Robbo-NewsRR
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:13
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:13
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You guys are wasting your time. Someone who hasn't discovered the difference between a raster and a vector on their own, will never be able to teach themselves Illustrator or Photoshop, and certainly not Streamline's baffling interface. -- (Please excuse my nasty attitude, it's been a bad century so far) Frustrated 49% "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote: > noozgroop writes: > >> I need to scan an image, then be able to edit the image by selecting >> different pieces of it in Adobe Illustrator. However, Illustrator >> only sees my scan as one object. I've tried saving the object as an >> EPS and a TIFF. Please advise on how to perform this procedure. > > You need to convert the bitmapped image to a vectorized image, either by > redrawing it by hand, or by using a utility such as Adobe Streamline. A > bitmapped image is always seen as a monolithic object by Illustrator. >
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