Tracing artwork
The next step is to work on the logo. Many books have been written about the importance of strategic thinking in approaching branding and logo creation. In this lesson, however, we will tackle only the very last part of this design process: creating the digital artwork of a logo from an existing scanned version of a shape. For this we will use Live Trace, a new feature of Adobe Illustrator CS2, that enables you to convert scanned line-art or bitmap images to vector graphics. More information about this feature can be found in the Creating Vector Content Using Live Trace guide provided on the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book CD (Adobe Studio/White Papers/Live Trace.pdf).Instead of creating a perfectly symmetrical and regular shape with one of the Illustrator drawing tools, the starting point for the logo will be an image drawn by hand, and then scanned into Photoshop. The slightly rough and unpolished look will give the logo a more personal touch.
| 1. | With the basics logo file open in Illustrator, choose File > Place. In the Place dialog box, navigate to the Lesson01 folder in the CS2CIB Lessons folder, select the Photoshop file hexa.psd, and click Place.The scanned image of a flower-like shape will appear on the page. In the following steps, this shape will be called the flower symbol. | | 2. | With the placed image still selected, choose Object > Live Trace > Make and Expand.The Live Trace command will create two paths, one around the bounding box of the placed Photoshop file, and one around the flower symbol in the middle. Since you're only interested in the inner path, the outer path can be deleted. | | 3. | Use the Direct Selection tool, and select just one point of the outer path by dragging over the top left corner of the image. | | 4. | Press the Delete key twice, and the outer path will be gone.As an artifact from the tracing process, the remaining path is still considered part of a group, and is surrounded by a Compound Path. This can easily be cleaned up, and things simplified in the Layers palette. | | 5. | If the Layers palette is not already visible, open it by choosing Window > Layers, or pressing the F7 function key. | | 6. | Click the triangle next to the Layer 1 to expand the view. Expand the view of the Group inside this layer as well. The Path is grouped with a Compound Path. | | 7. | Click the word <Path>, and drag it up and out of the group, releasing the mouse when an insertion line appears between Layer 1 and <Group>. | | 8. | Select the <Group> sublayer (now containing only the Compound Path), and click the Delete icon in the lower right hand corner of the Layers palette to delete the selection. Only the path of the flower symbol in Layer 1 will remain. |
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Adobe® Creative Suite 2 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK® By
Adobe Creative Team ............................................... Publisher: Adobe Press Pub Date: July 12, 2005 ISBN: 0-321-34982-2 Pages: 320 Index
