Adobe Illustrator/CS3 question

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Expert: - 8/21/2008


Question

ai design
Hi there,

I am having somewhat of a hard time with cs3. I will explain to you my issue in details as I want to do the same thing as I did with photoshop. With photoshop you can superpose two layers and wand a selection in the top layer to erase that wanded shape in the layer under. What I am trying to do is to erase strokes of a drawing of a bull in a layer of text which I have created its outlines. I have attached a picture which you will be able to see the strokes in white and the text in grey. The reason in which I need to get the shape of the strokes erased in the text is because I need them in separate layers as it is for silk screen printing.


I can somewhat do what I am asking you but this takes me a million years and isn't the most accurate thing. What I tend to do is create outlines for both layer then I merge them in the same layer and expand them. then I use the live paint selection tool. As I have said it works but its super long and not really accurate on a few of the strokes. Hope my question is clearly written.


thank you very much


Anthony

Answer
Hi Anthony,

You can select both of the images (the stroke and text) and then use the pathfinder palette to divide the images. Then you can delete the unwanted areas.

If you are keeping that orange background, the easiest thing to do is to change the white objects to match the same color. Illustrator automatically creates knockouts when separating so the screen would be clean.

Thanks

Kevin  

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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