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Greetings friends;

Please forgive me, this is a newbie question:  I have a scan of some black and white artwork which was captured in photoshop years ago.  I'd like to work with this material in Designer, but when I open the .psd file (or place it in my artboard)  it includes the white background of the scan page.  How do I create new artwork with just the black ink scanned material and none of the white background?  It's the sort of thing I would have used the "magic lasso" for in Adobe...

This will be used for a spot color silkscreen project for a CD discface.

Any guidance much appreciated!

prawnscan1500.psd

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Since that PSD is treated as an bitmap image (pixels), I would vectorize/trace it with some third party tool as a 2 color trace. That gives you then vectors instead of a bitmap, which you can save as PDF or SVG vector format file. Next you open that vector format file (PDF/SVG) in ADe and remove the white curve part of the vectors, further you set in ADe the document background to transparent. - Now you have your artwork as plain black reusable vector curves, which you can resize/scale or color etc. in ADe as you like!

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2 hours ago, nautilusink said:

How do I create new artwork with just the black ink scanned material and none of the white background?

You could try the Erase White Paper in Photo. Or use the "magic wand" or Flood Select Tool as it is called in Photo to select the white and then delete it. You may have to Rasterize the image if it is an Image layer and not a Pixel layer.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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