AboutKevin Stohlmeyer Expertise I am an Adobe Certified Expert. I can answer all your questions about Adobe Illustrator version 7 through the new Adobe CS3 version.
Experience I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Illustrator and have been teaching this application to college students for the past 6 years. I now teach this as a corporate instructor.
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Expert: Kevin Stohlmeyer Date: 7/7/2008 Subject: Tracing Colour Photos
Question I have a little doubt about the results of my traces in Illustrator - after pressing the "expand" button when I want to edit the trace result (when tracing color photographic images) little white lines that are visible between each vector shape appear.. are these important?.. will they print?? Or should I not worry about them? It seems that the shapes don't quite fit together exactly. Thanks very much, Tom.
Answer Hi Thomas,
As long as you do not have a white stroke applied (sorry had to mention it), it will be fine. The white gap that shows up between colors is just on screen and shows up once and a while.
If this is a significant gap, check it in outline mode and make sure the lines overlap or at least match up. Sometimes live trace does cut objects a little weird depending on your settings. If it looks ok in outline mode, you should be good, but pulling a proof is always a good thing.
