Streamline Help Please!

[Jennifer...@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

I don't know where else to post this. I need to make a Photoshop file (a logo file done originally done in Photoshop) into an EPS or AI file to send to someone else to print. I have Adobe Streamline but I haven't used it in a very long time so I can't remember how to use it. I do a: Open, Convert, Save Art As EPS, but when I try to open it in Photoshop to check it, it only shows the outline in black and white, when my file is full color. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you,
Jennifer

[OldBob]

Why not open the original file in Photoshop and save as an EPS from there?

[Jennifer...@adobeforums.com]

Can I do a clipped version in EPS? Is clipped the same as outlined? Would an EPS save through Photoshop be the same thing had the logo been done in Illustrator? I always thought it was slightly different?

[OldBob]

Can I do a clipped version in EPS? Is clipped the same as outlined?

I'm not certain exactly what you mean with those terms in this context.

Would an EPS save through Photoshop be the same thing had the logo been
done in Illustrator?

If by "done in Illustrator" you mean created in Illustrator, then no. If the logo had been created in Illustrator, it would be vector. Since it was created in Photoshop, it is (most likely) a raster image. If you mean are EPS files created the same from both programs? They both should be usable by anyone able to use an EPS file.

I hope this helps in some way. Good luck.

[boblevine]

Open it in Illustrator and use live trace. Don't expect perfection.
You'll need to tweak it a bit.

Bob

[Jennifer...@adobeforums.com]

Hi Bob,

Actually, that's another problem I'm having. I don't have Illustrator. Are you familiar with the Layer>Create Clipping Mask and then saving it as an EPS file? I found something on the web about Clipping, which is what the person I need to give it to specifically asked for.

Thank you,
Jennifer

[boblevine]

Simply saving it as an EPS file isn't going to change the fact that it's
a raster image. You need to get it into a vector format and that means
using Illustrator.

Bob

[Silkr...@adobeforums.com]

Or streamline. Yeah i remember it, never used it. That was way before it integrated into illustrator as live trace. Somewhere in that program, there must be some presets. You need to choose a preset for full color. That program and live trace in illustrator traces the raster image and saves a vector eps or ai file.
Photoshop saves an eps file as raster, I am not sure but some of the vector feature in photoshop like type, may be saved as vector in the same eps file.

[Bart_...@adobeforums.com]

Jennifer: Download the trial version of Illustrator and use that if this is a 'one-off'.

Do you have CorelDraw? It has a great trace utility.

[Phosąfour dots]

Without seeing the logo, how are we to know whether or not manually recreating it as vector objects might be the easiest way to go?

Wanna post the logo for us to see, Jennifer?

Have a read for simple directions:
<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6f688/1>

[Bart_...@adobeforums.com]

PHOS: If it is for signage, then it should be vector. Maybe Jenn can explain what its final output will be for.

[OldBob]

Well, she says "to send to someone else to print". That's why I originally asked (too obliquely, I guess) if she needed vector or if raster would be acceptable. Everyone seems to have reached the conclusion she needs vector. I'm still not convinced, and think that maybe all she needs is a clipping mask on a raster logo. But then, that may be because I don't know Streamline (which is why I've been keeping out of it).

[Phosąfour dots]

"If it is for signage, then it should be vector."

Bart...

I think I made it clear I understood that (and I think you know me well enough by now to know that I would have ::ahem:: strongly suggested creating a vector version ;) XD). Plus, Jennifer's original question suggests that she also knows that vectors are called for. Sooo, I think we're all on the same page about this. My link just clarifies in simple terms how to post a Pixentral thumbnail here. Seeing the image she's working with might suggest the best, further course of action.