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davidl33530444
davidl33530444
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January 8, 2018
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Image Trace - accidentally inverting my image trace

  • January 8, 2018
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Hi there,

Having a bit of trouble with CC - for a bit of context, I am an illustrator who likes to import scanned b&w textures in to AI to use as part of illustrations. I am used to CS6 where I can paste in a texture, do a black and white trace (whilst knocking out the white) and that's that, ready to use!

Now trialing CC I believe I am ticking the same boxes (please see photo for a before / after trace, where the imported texture on the left is before and the right is after trace) but for whatever reason, the trace is inverting! I must be selecting something incorrectly, but don't know what / where / how...

Hopefully someone can help with this!

Dave

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Correct answer davidl33530444

Aaah actually I'm starting to notice a trend. If I c+p a bitmap from PS in to AI then it inverts. If I change the Bitmap to grayscale, then c+p and apply the image trace it doesn't seem to do it... Weird!?

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 8, 2018

That's kind of an extreme Treshold setting. What happens when you set the slider in the center?

davidl33530444
davidl33530444Author
Participant
January 8, 2018

Same issue, I played around with all of the sliders (Even setting Threshold to 1) and it was still inverting...

davidl33530444
davidl33530444AuthorCorrect answer
Participant
January 8, 2018

Aaah actually I'm starting to notice a trend. If I c+p a bitmap from PS in to AI then it inverts. If I change the Bitmap to grayscale, then c+p and apply the image trace it doesn't seem to do it... Weird!?

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