Comments on: Quick Logos with Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator

By: TonyFalcon

TonyFalcon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:47 +0000

Very noob work. I mean the final work not the tut, i would aprecciate more professional results for inspiration Thanks.

By: Annonymous

Annonymous — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:17:41 +0000

I am having the same problem as Carl, who wrote the following comment: “I am missing something, when I “ungroup” and then select the white background, and delete, my logo dissappears? I am left with a plain white area and no logo?”

I am able to select specific little areas, drag them out of the picture, then the picture area where they were becomes white. But that just looks weird.

My question is, how can I do the second part of Step #2? Please help me!

By: pearlie

pearlie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:22:24 +0000

I’m still a novice with Illustrator, am lucky enough to have CS4….. and I got thru this tutorial twice, in different color combinations with the same original image – I used a colorful fish, deleted its background but kept the ‘floor’ beneath it…… I’m an experienced designer and even I could make this work, and tho I did leave the cmyk, maybe the suggestion for the rgb would work better or differently. The main thing to learn from this tut is the Live Trace thing – THAT’s very cool!!! Thanks

By: Steve D.

Steve D. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:07:09 +0000

A very poorly written, confusing and frustrating tutorial.

If you are having problems following this you are not alone.

By: jason lander

jason lander — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:32:44 +0000

Awesome tutorial. A lot of fun to do. Thanks for sharing!

By: Thomas Crews

Thomas Crews — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:03:08 +0000

Thanks jacek, didn’t think about that. It’s been so busy with school I have not had the time to work on this tutorial anymore. I just happen to check it back out and found your posting. Thanks again.

By: jacek

jacek — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:56:31 +0000

Hello! If you have problem with blendings try not to use CMYK, couse blendings dont work property in this mode. Use RGM color mode and overlay will work great.

By: Thomas Crews

Thomas Crews — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:34:32 +0000

I’m currently working on this particular tutorial and have come close to the end result. As a first year design student I enjoy tutorials such as this one. Tutorials allows me to expand on the basics I learn in school. Please keep a watch out for a future post, Once I figure everything out about this tutorial I’ll be more than glad to post tips that I used.

By: BayAreaRed

BayAreaRed — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:24:00 +0000

I’m ashamed at some of you. Why is it necessary to slam somebody’s work, rather than just say “I found an error” or “I found something that didn’t work the way you said,” and then offer or ask for a possible solution? This is one reason why I do NOT read most comment sections. Too many immature people who should know better, and only want to try to make themselves feel superior by slamming someone else’s work or techniques. I read the tutorial, try it for myself, and if it doesn’t work, I either figure out why or go back to the author if possible to ask why it didn’t work.

Having said that, I am a first-year art/web design student and personally, I appreciate the time and effort he put into this tutorial. I learn a lot from these (or I don’t if they truly are bad), but I don’t waste my time and be incredibly rude by cluttering up the comment section with immature garbage, trying to make him or her feel bad.

I DID learn some new things from this tutorial, things I can apply to other work and helps me learn Illustrator and, just incidentally, get better grades in my art classes. So, Corey… from me to you, thank you!

By: Millz

Millz — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:13:41 +0000

Instead of Overlay try Multiply under the transparency menu… I had the same trouble with the whole image disappearing with Overlay. But Multiply for the win.

Although being a Graphic Designer myself, this type of logo is a bit lamo. Still helpful tutorial.

By: GourdBreaker

GourdBreaker — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:01:34 +0000

The overlay doesn’t work. How can achieve the same effect???

By: GourdBreaker

GourdBreaker — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:32:47 +0000

Wow, this is interesting. I’ll try this one right now.