BugSTI 0 Posted December 2, 2015 So i made this decal of my buddies face the other day and i really liked how it came out, so going back to make my second i cant seem to make my file transparent or "floaty" like with no background like i did the first one. I dont know what step i am missing that i accomplished the first time, maybe i just got lucky ha.Very frustrating and hopefully one of you guys or girls can help me out. i have tried exporting it as PNG. SVG just makes my picture all messed up, and jpeg doesn't seem to do anything either. my successful file tho was indeed a PNG so ill provide a picture, the one on the left is what i want, and the one on the right is what i want to convert. Someone please help Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primal Decals 621 Posted December 2, 2015 Sorry im no help on this ,if i knew or find something i will let you know for sure,but i am curious what steps you used to get this to where you are? I cant seem to find anything,Im sure someone will jump in on this to help you soon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pshawny 410 Posted December 2, 2015 When you export as a PNG you will want to choose "transparent" as the background color. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BugSTI 0 Posted December 2, 2015 When you export as a PNG you will want to choose "transparent" as the background color. I tried this, and this is what i got Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dcbevins 340 Posted December 2, 2015 Part of the problem is your are creating in a raster program or starting with a raster graphic and want a vector output. It doesn't matter about the transparency, because you are going to at some point have to auto-trace, manually trace, or recreate the design from scratch in a vector program. I see you are using Illustrator. The good news is it's auto-trace should handle something like that easily. I am not sure if Illustrator has an option to remove the background when doing a trace, but if it does, select that. After the trace just delete the white, (might need to ungroup first.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BugSTI 0 Posted December 2, 2015 Part of the problem is your are creating in a raster program or starting with a raster graphic and want a vector output. It doesn't matter about the transparency, because you are going to at some point have to auto-trace, manually trace, or recreate the design from scratch in a vector program. I see you are using Illustrator. The good news is it's auto-trace should handle something like that easily. I am not sure if Illustrator has an option to remove the background when doing a trace, but if it does, select that. After the trace just delete the white, (might need to ungroup first.) David, The picture im working on (the one at the top to right) has already been traced. I can not believe i successfully did this last night but can not seem to do it again haha. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pshawny 410 Posted December 2, 2015 Select a piece of the white background and then go to... Select > Same > Fill Color & then delete all of the white. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skarekrow 1,842 Posted December 2, 2015 When you do your Live Trace in Illustrator, select >Tracing Options>Ignore White. Save as a vector or, if a PNG (not an option with my Illustrator) "Transparent Background". JPG's will not support Transparent Bkgrnds. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
