This will allow you to see the graphic below to better adjust its position.
Choose Window>Transparency and set the Opacity to 60%. Drag this diamond shape above the wave graphic. The bottom will expand proportionately, resulting in a taller diamond shape. With the Selection tool, hold down the Option (PC: Alt) key and click-and-drag the top-middle control handle upward. Because there are no other shapes, it won’t combine with anything however, it will reset the transform edges to make it an editable diamond shape. Illustrator still sees this as a square, so open the Pathfinder panel (Window>Pathfinder) and click the Unite icon, the first icon at the top left. Select the Rotate tool (R) and hold down the Shift as you click-and-drag to rotate the box 45°, making a diamond shape. Open the Swatches panel (Window>Swatches) and fill it with gray. When finished, use the Selection tool to select the entire object, and choose Object>Group.Ĭhoose the Rectangle tool (M), hold down the Shift key, and drag out a square shape away from the other images. This will make a space for the logo, which will be added to the final design. Fill any other scattered elements around this area with white that you feel may be in the way, such as the center and top-right portion of the wave. Select the various sky elements on the right side of the image, and change their Fill to white in the Control panel. We need to fill a couple of background elements with white, so let’s Expand, Ungroup, and Deselect this graphic as we did in Step 3. This will give us just enough detail in the water with some additional colors. In the Tracing Options dialog, set the Mode to Color and Max Colors to 15. Click the down-facing arrow in the Control panel again and choose Tracing Options from the list. Click Place and then click-and-drag the image so it’s not covering the other image. Now, choose File>Place and navigate to the image you want to use for the background (we’re using a wave). Select the entire image graphic and choose Object>Group. We also removed some of the nonwhite areas around the edge of the board. Don’t forget the white areas between the legs and arm. Click to select the white background areas and press the Delete (PC: Backspace) key to delete them one by one. Choose the Selection tool (V), and zoom into your photo. Choose Object>Ungroup and then Select>Deselect. We need to remove the white background areas of the image, so click the Expand button in the Control panel to convert the image to regular path shapes.
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If it looks good, then click Trace otherwise, feel free to play with these settings to tweak the overall appearance. Turn on the Preview checkbox to see the effect. This determines the level of detail the image will retain once it’s traced. In the Adjustments section, set the Mode to Color, then set Max Colors to 14. With the photo selected, go to the Control panel, click the down-facing arrow between the Live Trace and Mask buttons, and choose Tracing Options from the list. In the Place dialog, uncheck the Link box and click Place. Next, choose File>Place and navigate to the first photo you’d like to use in your logo (ours is this photo of a surfer).
To begin, choose File>New and create a Basic RGB document. Creating a logo in Adobe Illustrator is easy enough, but here’s a cool technique for taking a couple of photos and using Live Trace to create graphic elements as part of an eye-catching surf logo.
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