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Trying To Edit PNG File In Illustrator (and No Luck)

Community Beginner ,
Mar 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023

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I imported a PNG file into Illustrator to practice editing and modifying it, but nothing is working. I'm able to change the size, but I'm not able to use Pathfinder.

 

Attached is the image I want to practice with.

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Community Beginner , Mar 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023

My apologies. It was actually Image Trace.

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Mar 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023

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PNG is a pixel image. You can't use pathfinder on it.

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Mar 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023

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I figured so. What I ended up doing is saving the PNG file as an Illustrator file and it worked.

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Mar 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023

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That sounds like you've got stupendous luck.

 

Are you claiming that Illustrator's Pathfinder operations do work after you saved the document as .ai although it just (still) contains a raster image?

 

Normally, that doesn't work.

 

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My apologies. It was actually Image Trace.

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