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#1 artcoder

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Posted 13 April 2007 - 09:48 AM

I have a color logo in Illustrator with gradients and drop shadows. What is the best way to get an black-and-white version of the logo.

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Posted 13 April 2007 - 05:09 PM

I dont know about Illustrator, but i would open it up in photoshop, then image - ajustments - hue/saturation
move the saturation slider all the way to the left, and mess with the lightness slider

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Posted 14 April 2007 - 02:26 PM

Think best results would be when you select all you shapes and make them all with a fill of none and a borderline (very thin) in grey r black.
Then use bucket tool to fill with black r white manually.

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Posted 15 April 2007 - 06:12 PM

Open it up in photoshop first, then desaturate it by hitting ctrl + shift + U on your keyboard. Or try adding an adjustment layer, particularly a gradient map with a black and white gradient.

Edited by Kilamike, 15 April 2007 - 06:14 PM.


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Posted 16 April 2007 - 03:13 AM

You can try out everything they say direcly in Illustrator though, cos after rasterizing your logo, it will have same basic filters as in photoshop. :D

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Posted 16 April 2007 - 02:17 PM

Sounds good. Thanks.




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