271 Tracing a line drawing with uniform strokes

…Hey gang, this is Dick McClellen. Welcome to Dick's Techniques.…We're in Adobe Illustrator, and we're…going to take this whimsical pencil sketch, that…I created one Sunday morning with my youngest son, Sam, for what's that work.…And we're going to apply the image trace…feature, not to convert it to closed path outlines,…which is the way things work by default, but…instead we're going to trace it with open path outlines.…All of which have uniform strokes…in order to create this impeccable piece of vector based artwork.…

Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright here is the original pencil sketch.…Now it wasn't really this light, but the HP laser printer here in the office makes…for a pretty poor scanner, and yet it is going to be good enough for our purposes.…All we need to do is start things off…by adding contrast to the image here inside Photoshop.…So, I'll drop down to the black white icon…down here at the bottom of the Layers panel.…And, I'll press the Alt key or the Option…key on the Mac and choose the Levels command.…