From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Scaling and editing traced art - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Scaling and editing traced art
In this movie, we're going to finish up our great big 5 foot wide by 3 foot tall vector-based pirate flag here inside of Illustrator. Now, I've already gone ahead and made this red field in the background exactly the right size, so it's 5 feet wide, with a little extra, we've got an inch on each side for the bleed, and it's 3 feet tall, with an inch at the top and the bottom for the bleed as well. However, our skeleton sabers are way too tiny. In fact, this is what we're looking for, this final piece of artwork right here. So I've not only made the core artwork much larger, but I've also gone ahead and tweaked the location of the eyes a little bit, the ghost eyes in the center here, and I've modified the color of the scarf. So let's see how that works. I'm going to switch back to my art in progress, which I've called Tiny flag insignia.ai, and I'm going to go over to the layers panel and I'm going to unlock the black layer because we want to modify the contents of that layer, and I'm…
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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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