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Tracing options: The vector functions - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Tracing options: The vector functions
I have gone ahead and restored the saved version of Letters in 14 colors.ai, and in this exercise, I am going to demonstrate the other vector settings inside of the Tracing Options dialog box, those settings that determine how Illustrator generates the vector-based artwork. So with my artwork selected, with the tracing object selected, that is, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on my artwork a little so I can see it with a little more clarity here, because we are going to have to see some of these letters a little more closely to understand what's going on. And then I will click on this Tracing Options icon in the Control panel to bring up the Tracing Options dialog box. You may recall these options on the right side of the dialog box, determine how Illustrator generates the vector-based path outlines. We will start things off by turning on Ignore White, so that we're no longer tracing the white portions of the image. We've already seen minimum area, that's that option right there…
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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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