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Problems with Image Trace

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December 13, 2021
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Omgggg helpppp! I'm new to Adobe software and bit of a tech airhead so need help lol.

I've drawn a couple of sketches which I transferred into my iCloud Drive using the iPhone Notes scanner. I then opened these sketches into Illustrator in the hopes of manipulating them to work for a surface pattern design.

However I am having problems with Image Trace! Ir's not even letting me select the Make tool to click Black and White. Why is this? Is it because I used iPhone Notes to scan?

I'm so confused! I'm following a tutorial online which makes it look so simple, it's bloody not and I knew it was too good to be true. Someone help me pls xxxxx

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Lauren, this may be helpful in the future:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

manal shanableh

Legend

after you trace any image, to select the white or black, you have to expand the artwork, so you can ungroup items and make your changes.

Met1

Legend

I assume you do have the scan selected?

Doug A Roberts

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What format does iPhone Notes give you?

What do you see in the Layers panel when you select it?

Open the image trace window (Window > Image Trace) to view the full set of options.

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Lauren2222577485enAuthor

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I just see Layer 1! I'm selecting Image Trace through the Window tab but when I click it the box is just not clickable as if it isn't compatible with the image. I think it's got something to do with the fact that I scanned in with Notes?

No idea what you mean by format for Notes lol it's just basically like a camera which scans the image in and I then save it into iCloud drive and transfer it into Illustrator.

Doug A Roberts

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This is what you should be able to see with an image placed in Illustrator (with the Image Trace panel open from the Window menu):

In Layers, you will see <Linked File> if it's linked, or <Image> if it's embedded. Both can be traced in the same way.

Can you show us what you can see?

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