Compound path problem

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July 7, 2019
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Hi, everyone! I'm new to Illustrator so this might be a silly question. I have a scanned sketch that I Image traced as a black&white logo (checked Ignore white option as well). What I need is to turn that image into anchor points and lines. I know that I have to expand it but it seems like nothing happens after I do (no visible anchor points like I believe it should be). There is compound path 'attached" to it and I can't get rid of it so I could ungroup the image and have separate objects to work with. Does anyone know how to 'delete' compound path? I hope my explanation makes sense. I have Adobe CC 2018. Thanks!

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Correct answer Steve Werner

It may be as simple as this:

(1) Open the Layers panel and expand it. Typically there is an extra compound path which surrounds the artwork:

(2) Drag the Compound Path element to the Trash can icon on the Layers panel to delete it.

(3) Then, if necessary, ungroup the path.

If that's not it, make a screen capture of your expanded Layer panel window to show us.

Steve Werner

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a_nela90Author

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I believe that I actually explained it wrong. It is hard to me cause I'm just trying to learn to work in Illustrator so I apologize. I think the problem is Expanding the sketch after image trace. I should get the sketch in lines and anchor points but that doesn't happen. And I don't understand why the fill changes to black after expanding? I'm posting screenshots.