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

[Christian267272321z3a]

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.

[Monika Gause]

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

[Christian267272321z3a]

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

[Kurt Gold]

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.

[Christian267272321z3a · Accepted solution]

My apologies. It was actually Image Trace.