Illustrator extremely slow when making patterns

[laurens35061133]

Hi,

Everytime I try to make a pattern in illustrator it freezes or runs extremley slow! I have been hand painting my designs and uploading the image to photoshop. I cutt them out with the lasso tool in photoshop then place in illustrator and convert into vector file. Could this be a sizing issue? Very frustrated and would really appreciate some help so I can make these designs for work!

Thanks!

[Monika Gause]

You mean you have a painted image and then use Image Trace on it and then make a pattern?

Autotracing a painting will give you a gazillion of paths. Making that into a pattern and applying that pattern multiplies the number of paths even more.

It's not surprising that it takes Illustrator a minute to render that on screen for you.

What are you trying to accomplish when autotracing those images?

[laurens35061133]

It's taking hours to produce one pattern...Im trying to accomplish patterns from my images that I convert to vector but it's at the point where the program crashes everytime.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Well, yes: as I said: there are likely hundreds of thousands of paths in your file.

What you are doing doesn't make a lot of sense.

If you have painted something, then why bother about vector? Make a high resolution pixel pattern in Photoshop.

[laurens35061133]

Okay didn't know that was an option still learning adobe ways...thanks!