you people know stuff and I don't: Adobe Illustrator
Let's face it, my true skills lie in talking crap and becoming embroiled in farcical sexual encounters.

Adobe Ilustrator. That CS3 one.

I have a file - let's call it logo.ai - and it's a white image and text on a black background. Now, I want the opposite. Well, actually, I want black image and text on a transparent background so I can put it on a t-shirt. "Edit colors - invert colors" would seem to be the idea, but that doesn't work, probably because I blundered into making the damn logo from scratch and I have no idea how I achieved it, other than I pressed some semi-familiar icons and made a concentrating angry retard face.

Catch is, it has to be a vector graphic, so .ai (in ye olde CS2 form) or .eps will please the t-shirt printers.

I know my way round GIMP, I write algorithms to manipulate pixels, and yet I can't for the life of me work out the completely non-intuitive Adobe Illustrator interface.

Can anyone...?

Er, hugs n' cakes n' all that shit.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 3 Sep 2008, 16:07, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hmmmm...
I hate Illustrator...

Can you not design what you want in PS, export it to Illustrator and save as an .eps or .ai?
( Cawl, Wed 3 Sep 2008, 16:15, Reply)

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Change your text and image to black, then, on the colour palette, instead of selecting a colour for the background, click the wee box with the diagonal red line through it, this should give you your image with no colour background.
( Stu71 ....bad money dies, I love the scene, Wed 3 Sep 2008, 16:35, Reply)

^^ what he said
but you need to tell her about the two different selection tools its a cunt for non illy users

CHCB - should you not be out ravishing some bloke at a convention somewhere?

'-)
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 3 Sep 2008, 18:56, Reply)

ta, I'll try that when my coordination returns
I wasn't ravishing blokes so much as getting hideously drunk on cheap red wine with them. Kudos to me - I din't fall off my bike on the way home. I did, however, pour cereal all over the table instead of in the bowl about 5 minutes after that.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 10:55, Reply)

well
I redid it all using LiveTrace. Then I saw a thing on the t-shirt website saying "we will make your logo into a vector graphic for 5 euros" and I thought that would probably have been a much better idea.

But I made it work anyway. Whether you want to know that or not.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 12:34, Reply)