illustrator help
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- broxybluenose
I want to place an B&W image (not vector) in illustrator. The image is black, with a white background. What kind of file should it be to have a transparent background on import and then be able to colour the black in illustrator?
Bitmap works, but is this the only way....?
- detritus0
tiff.
- or, any bmp, then play with a coloured layer over, employing a layer mode, eithe ron the object or the layer.detritus
- <monospaced
- monospaced0
Photoshop file
- monospaced0
oh...ooops, TIFF
- d_gitale0
yes bitmap saved as tiff
you can colour greyscale images in illustrator too, without the transparent bg tho
- doesnotexist0
set the transparency to multiply. depending on what you're doing you should be able to give it a color and the white will drop out.
- not necessarilymonospaced
- but then the new colour gets washed out in the background...?broxybluenose
- right, depends on your artwork really.doesnotexist
- d_gitale0
^ that only works without colouring the black, as soon as its not 100% black, the coloured parts has a level of transparency i believe
- broxybluenose0
If I bring in a layer TIFF, and maintain the transparent background, it works a treat. But now I can't colour the black...?
- d_gitale0
go with bitmap, even though they look shit in Illustrator, but you could add your vector objects in the bg and when done rasterize the whole composition if needed (you will receive a coloured RGB/CMYK image embedde).
butall that could be done in PS i guess, so not sure if that really helps
- monospaced0
if you use a bitmap, go really really high-resolution dither (like 1200-2400dpi) and you'll be happy
- but what if you haven't got the bitmap at that size..?broxybluenose
- MAKE IT!monospaced
- increase the res and then create the bitmap, you have to do SOME work FFSmonospaced
- How can you increase the resolution of an image which is only 300dpibroxybluenose
- uhhh, go into Image Size and increase the resolution, dudemonospaced
- are you actually for real.broxybluenose
- I'm speaking from experience, actuallymonospaced
- monospaced0
another option is a monotone image with a spot color
- how ?d_gitale
- really!?!?!? Photoshop, of course... is this amateur hour!?monospaced
- i know how to make a monotone image, chill out - but explain how that helps u prod_gitale
- because it dont think it doesd_gitale
- ....d_gitale
- d_gitale0
what image mode is your layered tiff ?
- Normalbroxybluenose
- ??? i mean greyscale or RGB or CMYK ?d_gitale
- greyscalebroxybluenose
- doesnotexist0
make it grayscale and you can assign spot colors.
- fresnobob0
bitmaps look like shit only when previewed (aka working) in illustrator. itll look like it should on print or export.
- which is retarded. just use a grayscale tiff.doesnotexist
- a greyscale tif gives you a white background...?broxybluenose