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Tracing options: The raster functions - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Tracing options: The raster functions
In this exercise, we are going to begin the tour of the settings that are available to you inside the Tracing Options dialog box. Those settings are divided into two groups. First, you've got the Raster settings, which determine how Illustrator converts the pixel-based artwork before tracing it. Then you have the Vector settings, which determine how Illustrator generates the vector-based path outlines. So we are going to start with the Raster settings inside this exercise, then move on to the others in subsequent exercises. I have saved my progress as Black white & yellow.ai, found inside the 13_live_trace folder. I will go ahead and select that Live Trace object by marqueeing around it with the Black Arrow tool, and then in order to further modify this artwork, in order to customize my Live Trace settings, I'll click on this little dialog box icon available to me in the Control panel, which brings up the Tracing Options dialog box. Now notice here at the bottom of the dialog box that…
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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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