Comments on: Need help with Adobe illustrator cs4? http://topbrushes.com/questions/photoshop-cs4/need-help-with-adobe-illustrator-cs4/ Questions and Answers Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:07:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: spoolified http://topbrushes.com/questions/photoshop-cs4/need-help-with-adobe-illustrator-cs4/comment-page-1/#comment-1546 spoolified Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:17:40 +0000 http://topbrushes.com/questions/photoshop-cs4/need-help-with-adobe-illustrator-cs4/#comment-1546 I may need a little more information about the illustration you have put into Illustrator, but I think I know what you did. It sounds as if you have imported a raster image (bitmap) into Illustrator. Illustrator is mainly for creating vector Illustrations. Very few of the tools in Illustrator will work on raster images. The warp tool in Illustrator is used only to warp vector shapes. You can use raster images as a part of your layout in Illustrator, but editing them within Illustrator is limited. If you need to make changes to the raster image, open it in Photoshop and make the changes. Now, read a few pages from top searches in from this google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22raster+vs+vector%22&btnG=Search Here is some further info on the these two different types of digital graphics: Here is the Wikipedia entry for the definition of raster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics And for Vector: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics I may need a little more information about the illustration you have put into Illustrator, but I think I know what you did.

It sounds as if you have imported a raster image (bitmap) into Illustrator. Illustrator is mainly for creating vector Illustrations. Very few of the tools in Illustrator will work on raster images. The warp tool in Illustrator is used only to warp vector shapes.
You can use raster images as a part of your layout in Illustrator, but editing them within Illustrator is limited. If you need to make changes to the raster image, open it in Photoshop and make the changes.

Now, read a few pages from top searches in from this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22raster+vs+vector%22&btnG=Search

Here is some further info on the these two different types of digital graphics:

Here is the Wikipedia entry for the definition of raster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics

And for Vector:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics

]]> By: digitalkidsgroup http://topbrushes.com/questions/photoshop-cs4/need-help-with-adobe-illustrator-cs4/comment-page-1/#comment-1545 digitalkidsgroup Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:33:14 +0000 http://topbrushes.com/questions/photoshop-cs4/need-help-with-adobe-illustrator-cs4/#comment-1545 I haven't used cs 4 yet, but usually in PS when tools are grayed out you need to go to see what format the image is in. In cs3 I believe it is "image"-then change from 32 bit to something else, ect. Maybe it needs to be changed from vector to raster or something. I haven’t used cs 4 yet, but usually in PS when tools are grayed out you need to go to see what format the image is in. In cs3 I believe it is “image”-then change from 32 bit to something else, ect. Maybe it needs to be changed from vector to raster or something.

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