From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Other ways to trace - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Other ways to trace
I've restored the original version of Hand-drawn characters.ai and it contains a multicolor image that I created inside of Photoshop. Now in the previous exercise I showed you how you can go ahead and trace that image by clicking on the Live Trace button. Basically, you just cross your fingers and hope for the best. After tracing the image you have access to a few options up here in the Control panel. If you want more control over your traced artwork then you go over to this little dialog box icon, click on it, and then you have a variety of additional settings that you can apply. After modifying the settings you click on the Trace button. Now we will come back to how these settings work in a future exercise. For now I am just going to cancel out, because there is a few other ways to approach tracing inside of Illustrator. I will go ahead and press Ctrl+Z, Cmd+Z on the Mac, so I reinstate my original untraced image. Another thing you can do, if you want to bring up the dialog box…
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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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