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Image Trace inversing black & white

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
September 8, 2017
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Hi all, I'm an Illustrator novice and I'm using it to vectorize my calligraphy for a return address stamp. I'm using CC 2017 and didn't have the problem with previous versions of Illustrator but now I'm running into a problem. When I use the "image trace" of black writing on white background, it inverts is to black background and white writing and I can't change it back. Do I have something set incorrectly? This used to be simple. I appreciate any advice!

Correct answer scholastica000

I had the same issue - turns out my file is in BITMAP mode even though I scanned it as .PNG. What I did was either re-scan it to different mode or bringing it to adobe photoshop and re-exported it as JPG in RGB/CMYK mode.

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scholastica000Correct answer

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I had the same issue - turns out my file is in BITMAP mode even though I scanned it as .PNG. What I did was either re-scan it to different mode or bringing it to adobe photoshop and re-exported it as JPG in RGB/CMYK mode.

pentagramwookie

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There's several formats that support 1-bit Bitmap Mode, PNG, TIFF, and BMP included. No need to make the Bitmap Mode into RGB or CMYK mode, Grayscale works too, just one less step.

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GaspardPetit

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This happens when you Image Trace while your selected stroke and fill colours are set to white and black respectively. If you want the traced stroke to be white and the fill color to be black, you need to change your stroke and fill colours. In your screenshot, these are at the bottom of the left vertical bar, or also found in the "Properties" panel.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Did you try that? Stroke and fill colors do not influence Image Trace.

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scholastica000

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This doesn't work.

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

I could not reproduce your problem but can offer a quick workaround. Open your scan first in Photoshop and invert it there with the keyboard command Control-i (PC), Command-i (Mac). Then after saving it there open it in Illustrator and do the image trace which should then invert it back again.

chanaart

Community Expert

do you want it on a transparent background?

Expand it!

Wit hte direct selection tool delete the black background.

Select the white and change it to black!

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Your settings are greyed out, but if you select your result we can see here what you used. Click here if you ever lose the image trace window.

If you already expanded to vectors paths you can use

edit >> colors >> invert colors

Not saying that is what the correct way to do this every time, but a useful way to help you get what you need.

PrepressPro1

Legend

When you traced the image, the program may have created a box and the type as vectors. It looks like you filled the box with black and not the letter. Try selecting one of the letter and use the Menu>Select>Same>Fill Color. If all the text/letter are selected when you do this you can fill them with a color and fill the box around them with white or delete the box altogether.

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