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Thomas Crowley
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January 24, 2013
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converting color .jpg image to grayscale

  • January 24, 2013
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I have a color .jpg image that I want to convert to grayscale and then add annotation. Is this easy to do in Illustrator?

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    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    January 24, 2013

    That depends on the nature of your image and what exactly you want to achieve.

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    Thomas CrowleyAuthor
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    January 24, 2013

    Monika,

    I've opened the .jpg image in Illustrator. It is a line drawing. Most lines are black but there is also some color shading, e.g. yellow and orange. The shading will probably look good enough in grayscale. I've opened the Links Panel and the image appears to be "embedded". However I cannot edit individual parts of the drawing.

                                                                    Tom

    Larry G. Schneider
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    Larry G. SchneiderCommunity Expert
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    January 24, 2013

    Select the image. Use Edit>Edit Colors>Convert to Grayscale to get what you want.

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