From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Adding contrast and color - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Adding contrast and color
In this movie we're going to take this skull, this adjusted skull art, and we are going to increase the contrast so that we have jet blacks against an absolutely white background, and then we're going to add in all the red that's required to paint the background flag. The red that occurs out here in the larger background that shows up inside of the various elements here, inside of the handles of the saber, inside of the earrings, and then of course the ghostly red eyes. We need to paint those in as well. I've gone ahead and saved my changes from the previous exercise as Adjusted line art.tif. I'm going to take this artwork and the first thing I'm going to do is increase its contrast by going up to the Image menu and choosing adjustments and then choosing the Levels command or you can press Ctrl+L, Cmd+L on the Mac. Bear in mind that this applies a static color adjustment. So that we're really modifying the pixels inside of this image, which is perfectly acceptable. There's no reason…
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Converting pixels to vectors1m 2s
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Tracing an imported image6m 17s
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Other ways to trace3m 17s
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Raster and vector previews7m 2s
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Threshold, Min Area, and Max Colors5m 27s
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Tracing options: The raster functions8m 2s
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Using the Ignore White option5m 3s
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Tracing options: The vector functions6m 40s
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Expanding traced artwork5m 6s
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Sketching and drawing for Illustrator6m 24s
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Editing scanned line art9m 23s
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Adding contrast and color10m 32s
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Live Trace and resolution9m 8s
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Expanding and separating paths8m 43s
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Scaling and editing traced art8m 4s
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