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'It feels incredible,' Alex told the Manchester Evening News. The artworks will cover the 'Nuffield tower' wall which covers 215sqm and should coincide with the digital artwork ceiling, which will be the biggest of its kind in Europe.Īlex was chosen after a combination of a public vote and a selection panel, which included Norman Cook and Jason Shay, the centre director at Printworks.

The illustration features many references to Manchester's rich history and the Printworks building itself - which celebrated its 150th anniversary this year. The work, by Manchester based artist Alex Sylt, was unveiled by Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, at an event this morning (March 11) with the aim of being in place later this year. Select individual object or together and go to swatches and remove fill by clicking over none, then click over stroke (X) and give outline color.Īlso, you can fill different colors inside and use it as a solid image.A piece of art set to cover a huge section of the iconic Printworks building has been unveiled as the £22m redevelopment of the building steams ahead. Now use selection tool to select individual part of the image as shown below. Go to control panel and click over image trace option, now you will get the expand option click it.Ĭlick over the expanded image and ungroup it. (Note: If image is colored, convert it in to gray scale or black and white) Now image will look like this on the artboard. Select picture from the folder and place it in the document. Go to file and select place and choose picture from folder, which you wanted convert from jpg to line art. (Bleed is not necessary for online it will give while printing) Create a new document in Adobe illustrator ( Go to File + New or Control-N) and give file name, paper size and bleed if needed and click ok.

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