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Anonymous
indexing colors in photoshop will make for better vectors in illustrator if you are using livetrace (which some view as cheating). Indexing is simple, first set your image to rgb color mode, then set it to index. This will bring you to the color choosing palate. Here you will choose the colors contained in your image, turn off diffusion as it will throw shit all over the place. Sometimes it will throw different colors all over the place where they arent supposed to be. To correct this, use your magic wand tool to select the vagrant color, then change it to the color it is supposed to be. Also make sure contiguous is turned off.
when you are done, save it as a tiff, open it in illustrator and vector away. This is the technique i use where i work to do spot color seperations to prepare film for screen printing.
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