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Christian267272321z3a
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March 22, 2023
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Trying To Edit PNG File In Illustrator (and No Luck)

  • March 22, 2023
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I imported a PNG file into Illustrator to practice editing and modifying it, but nothing is working. I'm able to change the size, but I'm not able to use Pathfinder.

 

Attached is the image I want to practice with.

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Correct answer Christian267272321z3a

That sounds like you've got stupendous luck.

 

Are you claiming that Illustrator's Pathfinder operations do work after you saved the document as .ai although it just (still) contains a raster image?

 

Normally, that doesn't work.

 


My apologies. It was actually Image Trace.

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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March 22, 2023

PNG is a pixel image. You can't use pathfinder on it.

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Christian267272321z3aAuthor
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March 22, 2023

I figured so. What I ended up doing is saving the PNG file as an Illustrator file and it worked.

Kurt Gold
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Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
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March 22, 2023

That sounds like you've got stupendous luck.

 

Are you claiming that Illustrator's Pathfinder operations do work after you saved the document as .ai although it just (still) contains a raster image?

 

Normally, that doesn't work.

 

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