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The blue background is attached to my pencil logo; how do I separate the two to select the entire pencil to copy?

The blue background is attached to my pencil logo; how do I separate the two to select the entire pencil to copy?

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Daniel Montgomery
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Daniel Montgomery
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Hey, DJay Jelks, can you post a link to the video or project this post was referencing so I can try to figure out how I can best help? Thanks!

I'm using Adobe Illustrator following along on projects so, how do I post a link or my project here for you to review?

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To share the project file you would have to upload it to a service like google drive or dropbox and make a sharable link, that's public to viewers.

Can you post the link to which video you were following along with?

Ok, I'll add it to my google drive.

So, I'm using Adobe Illustrator, I downloaded the .ai files from teamtreehouse. When I open the pencil file in Illustrator, I can not select the pencil to copy and paste to the wireframe screen. When selecting the pencil the entire background and pencil move. It seems like I need to separate the two, or not 'seem', I need to make the pencil ungroup from the background.

Daniel Montgomery
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Hey DJay Jelks Your file wasn't set to anyone with link can view, which means I can't take a look yet. If you make that tweak I'll happily take a look.

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Daniel Montgomery
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Hey DJay Jelks the file in the link you shared was a .png so I couldn't turn off the background layer. However, I did remove the background layer by cutting it out. Here's a link to just the pencil:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfaZpLWkVvAZdIATLqlQBsscm1KV1JLX/view?usp=sharing

Hope that helps!