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In the Image Trace Panel click Advance marker to expand the advance setting then check ignore white.
Chose Black and white Logo for type.
Here is the panel
Here is the result of a traced image of a type as a logo.
This is excellent IMHO!
What do you think.
Read about the features it is always helpful.
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Here it is colored, I have to admit this is quite an improved feature which is a very different approach from the days when adobe added a feature and then did nothing about improving it.
Before ypou go nuts when you fll the letter shapes after you expand the traced art they will fill as grayscale you have to make it a live color group or go tothe colro panel and select CMYK or RGB or HSB or Web to have your color show. there is a reason for that I am not going into it.
Actually CS 5's live Trace did letteing pretty well also though many more anchor points.
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I appreciate both answers. I did, of course, read the help and find the "Ignore White" checkbox. Prior to expanding the trace, that appears to work.
However, following my CS5 steps of clicking expand and then clicking a swatch, I get this for a result.
In CS5, it does it exactly what I wanted, which is this.
Clearly, I'm missing something else. Any hints what? (I'll freely admit that I'm enough of a novice that I have no clue what a live color group is. I'll try to find that in the help next.)
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I doubt that the Trace feature in CS 6 is a big improvement to CS 5
Here look what might help you with this you might even be able to do a better job in Photoshop.
I'm using your screen shot so the trace is not a good one but shows you the steps you can take to make this work better.
Even though it is an image you can edit the colors some what here I went to Edit>Edit Colors>Adjust Color Balance ad turn the Cyan down to "0" and move the black slide a bit higher as well.
The I did my trace and remove the clipping paths there are 2 clipping paths the way you remove the path and compund path for the square is to select one edge of the psth with the direct select tool, you need smark guides turned on to see the paths.
the hit delete and the hit delete again and repeat for the second compound path as such path willpreven the sqaure to becoming a background filled path.
It should be noproblem filling this without a Live Paint Group it is just that you are not familiar with what is happening to the art.
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Thank you, Wade. That's very helpful. I would say it's an understatement to say that I'm not familiar with what is happening to the art!
I find that if I remove the outer compound path, I'm still left with trying to clean up what should be the holes in the letters. Going to Live Paint seems to deal with that for me but I'd be hard pressed to tell you that that will always work or is even the correct behavior!And, yes, it would be far easier to make the desired changes in Photoshop but the project I've got going doesn't really allow that as an option. Your tips and pointers have done much to help me along. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a text that teaches Illustrator in a way that makes sense to me so I'm bumbling along, trying things as I go, and trying my best to apply my Photoshop knowledge. It only gets me so far, however, since Illustrator and Photoshop are vastly different in many respects!
Thanks again for your help. I'm unstuck from my current problem as a result.
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