Full color graphic image needing to vectorize but won't leave background transparent

[jessicamadrigal]

Hello!

If anyone can give me any insight into this it would be great. I have researched everywhere.

I have a graphic image, a full color logo really, that has no background. It also has a few areas that need to be see-through with no background as well. So it's not just around the outside edge. It is very large in photoshop and 300dpi.

I go to vectorize it with image trace (high fidelity photo, 100 colors, and where I cannot choose ignore white) in illustrator and it turns out pretty good actually. BUT I need to have no background still.

How do I do this while still having it be transparent? Is this a possibility?

Thanks in advance.

Jessica

[Monika Gause]

You can expand it and later delete the white elements.

Can you perhaps show it?

[jessicamadrigal]

Sure, here is the image. See in the center after vectorizing it I can't cut out the white in the center window (scope) since it has a shade of "glass" over it. But that is supposed to be see through.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Thank you.

In order to do that, I would suggest the following:

Edit the source image in Photoshop, so that there are two sources: the outside and the inside. Edit the inside in a way that the blueish overlay is gone.

Vectorize them separately and delete the white.

Then put them together and afterwards pout a blueish transparent circle on top.

[jessicamadrigal]

Ok I think I understand. That sounds like something I could try. I am still frustrated with the fact that illustrator doesn't allow for the transparent background piece though. That's a bummer.

Thanks for your quick response!

[Myra Ferguson]

For the Ignore White option to be enabled, change the Method in the Image Trace panel (go to Window > Image Trace to access the panel) to Abutting instead of Overlapping.