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JimVag1947

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magic wand tool problem

Aug 4, 2012 2:00 AM

I have placed a vector icon in Illustrator, it is a png file and the magic wand tool does not work at all.

I click the icon and in the fill icon in the bar left, I just see a question mark.

Any idea why might this happening?

1124 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: JimVag1947, Aug 31, 2012 9:53 AM

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1. Jacob Bugge,

Aug 4, 2012 2:13 AM in reply to JimVag1947

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Dimitri,

Illy sees a raster image (almost) as you and I do: just a collection of pixels, so most of the tools will fail. You cannot catch individual (groups of) pixels.

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2. JimVag1947,

Aug 31, 2012 7:10 AM in reply to Jacob Bugge

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Sorry, I am a little confused, you are saying that even if the file is a vector one, if this file is not created in Illu.

Illustrator sees it as a raster image. Is this what are you saying?

So, if I want to create a vector icon, I must create a new one in illy, instead of copying it from somewhere else.

A little more help required please...

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3. Larry G. Schneider,

Aug 31, 2012 9:02 AM in reply to JimVag1947

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No, Jacob is saying that a PNG file is a raster image file. There are no vector paths in that file. To get a vector version you will need to recreate it in Illustrator or save it from the original creating software in a vector format.

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4. JimVag1947,

Aug 31, 2012 9:53 AM in reply to Larry G. Schneider

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Now things are clear...

thanks

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