From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Live Trace and resolution - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Live Trace and resolution
In this movie we are going to take this piece of artwork that we have prepared inside of Photoshop and we are going to bring it into Illustrator and use the Live Trace feature in order to convert this pixel-based image into a piece of vector-based artwork. I have opened in front of me, Skull 03 edit.psd. This is a layered piece of artwork, so I need to start things off by flattening it. So I'll go up to the Layer menu and choose the Flatten Image command, which will go ahead and get rid of all the layers. So it's very important that you make sure that you've saved your layers in advance of applying this command. Then what you would do is you go up to the File menu and choose the Save As command, so you don't overwrite the original, or you can press Ctrl+Shift+S, Cmd+Shift+S on the Mac, and I recommend that you save the image to the TIFF format, just because that way you're not applying any lossy compression and TIFF will generate a small file that's compatible with Illustrator. So I…
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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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