Live Trace Problems

[eyemaze]

Hi,

After scanning in a black pen drawing, I've been trying to "Live Trace". When I press "Object" to try and delete the background, it deletes a lot of the white inside instead of just the background. I will say some of the lines aren't as sharp after the live trace and create gaps.

I then want to create a poster in Photoshop. When I drag the drawing into Photoshop and use the paintbucket tool it fills past some of the lines into different sections that I never wanted to be that color.

How can I outline it better so I can use the paintbucket tool in Photoshop to color only the areas that I want, instead of having it extend to other sections of the drawing?

Thanks in advance.

[Monika Gause]

Please show.

[eyemaze]

This is in Photoshop.

[eyemaze]

This is what it looked like when I dragged the ai file that was live traced and then expanded into photoshop.

[Monika Gause]

I don't understand this workflow.

Why do you expect it will improve your image to vectorize it and then rasterize again? It won't.

Improve it in Photoshop or stay in Illustrator with it.

Apart from that: Illustrator makes no difference between white and transparent when live tracing.

You might want to take a look at live paint for colorization in Illustrator.

[Jeff Witchel, ACI · Accepted solution]

Why are you doing any of this in Photoshop? You mention a poster. Either finish the design in Illustrator or in InDesign.

As far as deleting the "white background," select the Live Paint object in Illustrator and press the Expand button in the Control panel. Switch to your Direct Selection tool (white arrow) and click on the white background and press Delete. Repeat if parts of the background remain.