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Scaling and editing traced art

Scaling and editing traced art - Illustrator Tutorial

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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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