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Cleaning Up the Traced Image Design Within the AM.CO.ZA Vectorization System (Part 5)

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  "Title": "Cleaning Up the Traced Image Design Within the AM.CO.ZA Vectorization System (Part 5)",
  "Date": "2026-08-21",
  "Transcript": "Howdy, guys. In today's video, we're gonna be looking at how to clean up our vectorized uh designs within Infinity. But before that, let's have a quick intro first. So, today's video can be found on softwaretraining.co.za where we make short and easy to watch problem-solving videos. Now, if we head into the actual programme here, so in the previous video, we looked at converting that raster to a vector shape. And then on the side here, we have this folder with all the different shapes in it. So now, in order to clean up these shapes, cause otherwise, it becomes a real mess and a nightmare because all these shapes are little individual shapes. Um, so then if you wanna, uh, use it for any other purpose or email it to a client or something like that, it's just a slip to work with. So then, first things I like to do is take this group. I'm gonna right-click it and say ungroup. So that way, I don't have to go into a group every time I wanna make changes. Then another thing which we're gonna be using a lot is these um top uh features here. What it comes down to is if we have multiple shapes selected, we can choose how to interact with them. The add, you can basically join two shapes, so they come a single shape or the subtract, you can subtract a top shape over a bottom and then there's a few others. In general, for cleaning up, you'll mostly be using the first one, but you can obviously play with others. Like if you look at the little icon of what they say, it kind of makes sense and uh so you can take it from there. So what I like to do is I like to start with the big obvious things. So for instance, I'm gonna start here with the words. So I'm gonna select this one and then you can simply click shift to select another shape or you can drag a selection box, but keep in mind, if you have a background and you try to drag a selection box, It can also sometimes confuse you a bit because of the background being active. So I like to sometimes hide the background. I'll select it, click this little eye, and now, we cannot see it anymore, so I can't accidentally select it. And another thing to keep in mind is because we've broken this up into shapes, you'll see this A and O, for instance. They have a little shape on top of it, which actually indicates where it's gonna be um. You know, like a kind of where this uh whole of the O is gonna be. So, and that is where another one will come in with the subtract. So I'll quickly just show you a sample. So I'm gonna select the top shape, keep shift, select the back shape, and then we click this little subtract. And now, you can see, I just remove that white, and now we can see through this O. So that's pretty much one thing we're gonna be using often as well. So, if there's a lot of those, you can always use that first. So let's just select those two. Subtract it, select these two, subtract it, and then we have those letters all sorted. Now, I'm gonna use it with these little letters as well. Just zoom a bit so you guys can see better. We gotta subtract. Now, depending also on the amount of information in your design, the cleaning up can take some time. What I like to sometimes do is I'll put some music in the background or something because it's kind of mindless once you get used to it. You don't have to put in too much concentration. Now, there's also these little shapes which we can do the same thing. And then, so we basically just wanna do all the cutouts. On the actual design. Now, after that, what I like to do is join all the similar colours unless I plan on editing them. So, for instance, let's say, in this case of this AM and you see this arrow, it's the same colour. So, sometimes you'll join them if you wanna control these colours um together, but perhaps I wanna change the colours of this word. And to fit this one, and then I would make this a separate shape. So then afterwards, I have more controls for that, I'm, I've selected these three with a little period, and I'm just gonna click the add. Now, you can see this is one shape. So if I go to edit it, it is one shape, and on the layers here, we can see it's also one shape. Now, I'm just gonna quickly run through the other ones, do the same thing, join them, grab the bottom here. Join that as well. And then Let's see this one. I can probably join with those shapes. So what I'm currently doing there, I'm selecting it, then I'm moving it to see if I've got all the same or selecting and just go control Z or control Z onces to move it back. Then I'm gonna join that. So now, that is one shape. And now, likewise, I'm gonna select all these shapes. And then, I think I'm gonna add this bottom one as well. Wait, let me not cause I have plans later too. Do some more advanced things for another tutorial. OK, that looks about good. So, let's join those. Then this bottom one's already joined, so I don't have to worry about that. Then these shapes. So what you can also do like for a speed of workflow, I can select the shape, hide it, then I make a selection over those, join it, and then I can just unhide the other one. So that way, instead of selecting individual things. So same with this one, I can hide that letter. Then I can select, make sure everything here together, join it. And then like so. Now, you can also view on the layers here, what is your different um shapes. So if you have a little, sometimes you get a little offcuts, a small piece there and you'll see them there. You can just delete them there if they're not supposed to be a part of the job. But yeah, like that, it's pretty simple. Then you wanna clean up the whole thing and also make sure you save your file. So like we mentioned before, there's different formats that are supported for SVG. I'm just gonna go here, save as. And then, um, Let's go. Yeah, I'm just gonna make a folder call this raw. Oops, my caps socks on. And then at the moment, I'm gonna save it as an infinity, Infinity file. So I'm just gonna call this design. Raw. So, I know that it's the master file and click save. Now, you can obviously also export it as an ESVG, but we'll do that later. Um Uh, when we come to actual exporting final files. But for instance, let's say you wanna edit this in another programme like Photoshop or something like that, then you can just go file, and then you go to export. And then, from the menu here on the left, you wanna select a file format, which is SVG supported. As you can remember in that beginning video, when we looked at raster versus uh vector, so we know PDFs can handle it, and then also, obviously, SVG. It's what I like to use. And you can look, it might be one or two other ones that can also support vector designs. But yeah, otherwise, that is it on cleaning. So if you're following me around, I would recommend you quickly clean up your design. And if you're gonna use your background in your logo, don't forget to put that back on. But yeah, otherwise, in the meanwhile though, if we head here to softwaretraining.co.za, you guys will notice we've got a variety of different softwares we do cover, and you can also isolate your search on the top right. If you do not, however, find your training videos you're looking for, just simply go here, request a training video, fill in the mini-form, then we'll do our best to try and make that for you. But otherwise, thanks guys for watching and cheers."
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Howdy, guys. In today's video, we're gonna be looking at how to clean up our vectorized uh designs within Infinity. But before that, let's have a quick intro first. So, today's video can be found on softwaretraining.co.za where we make short and easy to watch problem-solving videos. Now, if we head into the actual programme here, so in the previous video, we looked at converting that raster to a vector shape. And then on the side here, we have this folder with all the different shapes in it. So now, in order to clean up these shapes, cause otherwise, it becomes a real mess and a nightmare because all these shapes are little individual shapes. Um, so then if you wanna, uh, use it for any other purpose or email it to a client or something like that, it's just a slip to work with. So then, first things I like to do is take this group. I'm gonna right-click it and say ungroup. So that way, I don't have to go into a group every time I wanna make changes. Then another thing which we're gonna be using a lot is these um top uh features here. What it comes down to is if we have multiple shapes selected, we can choose how to interact with them. The add, you can basically join two shapes, so they come a single shape or the subtract, you can subtract a top shape over a bottom and then there's a few others. In general, for cleaning up, you'll mostly be using the first one, but you can obviously play with others. Like if you look at the little icon of what they say, it kind of makes sense and uh so you can take it from there. So what I like to do is I like to start with the big obvious things. So for instance, I'm gonna start here with the words. So I'm gonna select this one and then you can simply click shift to select another shape or you can drag a selection box, but keep in mind, if you have a background and you try to drag a selection box, It can also sometimes confuse you a bit because of the background being active. So I like to sometimes hide the background. I'll select it, click this little eye, and now, we cannot see it anymore, so I can't accidentally select it. And another thing to keep in mind is because we've broken this up into shapes, you'll see this A and O, for instance. They have a little shape on top of it, which actually indicates where it's gonna be um. You know, like a kind of where this uh whole of the O is gonna be. So, and that is where another one will come in with the subtract. So I'll quickly just show you a sample. So I'm gonna select the top shape, keep shift, select the back shape, and then we click this little subtract. And now, you can see, I just remove that white, and now we can see through this O. So that's pretty much one thing we're gonna be using often as well. So, if there's a lot of those, you can always use that first. So let's just select those two. Subtract it, select these two, subtract it, and then we have those letters all sorted. Now, I'm gonna use it with these little letters as well. Just zoom a bit so you guys can see better. We gotta subtract. Now, depending also on the amount of information in your design, the cleaning up can take some time. What I like to sometimes do is I'll put some music in the background or something because it's kind of mindless once you get used to it. You don't have to put in too much concentration. Now, there's also these little shapes which we can do the same thing. And then, so we basically just wanna do all the cutouts. On the actual design. Now, after that, what I like to do is join all the similar colours unless I plan on editing them. So, for instance, let's say, in this case of this AM and you see this arrow, it's the same colour. So, sometimes you'll join them if you wanna control these colours um together, but perhaps I wanna change the colours of this word. And to fit this one, and then I would make this a separate shape. So then afterwards, I have more controls for that, I'm, I've selected these three with a little period, and I'm just gonna click the add. Now, you can see this is one shape. So if I go to edit it, it is one shape, and on the layers here, we can see it's also one shape. Now, I'm just gonna quickly run through the other ones, do the same thing, join them, grab the bottom here. Join that as well. And then Let's see this one. I can probably join with those shapes. So what I'm currently doing there, I'm selecting it, then I'm moving it to see if I've got all the same or selecting and just go control Z or control Z onces to move it back. Then I'm gonna join that. So now, that is one shape. And now, likewise, I'm gonna select all these shapes. And then, I think I'm gonna add this bottom one as well. Wait, let me not cause I have plans later too. Do some more advanced things for another tutorial. OK, that looks about good. So, let's join those. Then this bottom one's already joined, so I don't have to worry about that. Then these shapes. So what you can also do like for a speed of workflow, I can select the shape, hide it, then I make a selection over those, join it, and then I can just unhide the other one. So that way, instead of selecting individual things. So same with this one, I can hide that letter. Then I can select, make sure everything here together, join it. And then like so. Now, you can also view on the layers here, what is your different um shapes. So if you have a little, sometimes you get a little offcuts, a small piece there and you'll see them there. You can just delete them there if they're not supposed to be a part of the job. But yeah, like that, it's pretty simple. Then you wanna clean up the whole thing and also make sure you save your file. So like we mentioned before, there's different formats that are supported for SVG. I'm just gonna go here, save as. And then, um, Let's go. Yeah, I'm just gonna make a folder call this raw. Oops, my caps socks on. And then at the moment, I'm gonna save it as an infinity, Infinity file. So I'm just gonna call this design. Raw. So, I know that it's the master file and click save. Now, you can obviously also export it as an ESVG, but we'll do that later. Um Uh, when we come to actual exporting final files. But for instance, let's say you wanna edit this in another programme like Photoshop or something like that, then you can just go file, and then you go to export. And then, from the menu here on the left, you wanna select a file format, which is SVG supported. As you can remember in that beginning video, when we looked at raster versus uh vector, so we know PDFs can handle it, and then also, obviously, SVG. It's what I like to use. And you can look, it might be one or two other ones that can also support vector designs. But yeah, otherwise, that is it on cleaning. So if you're following me around, I would recommend you quickly clean up your design. And if you're gonna use your background in your logo, don't forget to put that back on. But yeah, otherwise, in the meanwhile though, if we head here to softwaretraining.co.za, you guys will notice we've got a variety of different softwares we do cover, and you can also isolate your search on the top right. If you do not, however, find your training videos you're looking for, just simply go here, request a training video, fill in the mini-form, then we'll do our best to try and make that for you. But otherwise, thanks guys for watching and cheers.

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