Comments on: Colour my swatches… http://carijansen.com/2010/01/05/tip_093/ Training, Print & Electronic Publishing Consultancy, Technical Writing/Editing, Public Speaking Wed, 09 May 2012 13:02:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/2010/01/05/tip_093/#comment-672 Cari Jansen Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:57:53 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=894#comment-672 hi Jean-Claude. That's a great one too! Love it! Thanks for sharing! :-) Cheers, Cari hi Jean-Claude.

That’s a great one too! Love it! Thanks for sharing! :-)

Cheers,

Cari

]]> By: Jean-Claude Tremblay http://carijansen.com/2010/01/05/tip_093/#comment-671 Jean-Claude Tremblay Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:46:14 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=894#comment-671 Love your "tut tut tut" on the video when you were waiting for Live Trace to perform. ;-) Another tips is to create an object mosaic from the images in Illustrator instead of using the live trace command. So select your image, choose Object > Create Object Mosaic... and enter the number of tiles you want each will correspond to a color. Then select the tiles and in the Swatch Panel option choose Add Selected Colors. A bit less accurate than Live Trace, but a lot faster. Love your “tut tut tut” on the video when you were waiting for Live Trace to perform. ;-)

Another tips is to create an object mosaic from the images in Illustrator instead of using the live trace command. So select your image, choose Object > Create Object Mosaic… and enter the number of tiles you want each will correspond to a color. Then select the tiles and in the Swatch Panel option choose Add Selected Colors. A bit less accurate than Live Trace, but a lot faster.

]]> By: Melissa http://carijansen.com/2010/01/05/tip_093/#comment-669 Melissa Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:10:55 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=894#comment-669 love this tip - such a great idea! love this tip – such a great idea!

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