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Auto-tracing in Illustrator

Auto-tracing in Illustrator - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Auto-tracing in Illustrator

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- We're going to start things off with one of my favorite features in Illustrator which goes by the unassuming name Image Trace. Among other things, it can trace scanned line art. Meaning that you can take something made with traditional tools, things like pens and pieces of paper, and then scan or photograph it, and convert it to vectors inside illustrator. In this chapter, I'll walk you through three scenarios. We'll start with this pen and ink portrait that I drew for a local newspaper article back in 1986, a year before Illustrator started shipping. Not only does this prove that something very old can be come very new in a matter of minutes, but it also means that you can start with conventional tools, and end with technically impeccable vector-based path outlines that you can refine, and later scale to any size. Near the end I'll show you how to trace a casual, if preposterous, pencil sketch with open pass and uniformly weighted strokes. Then we'll wrap things up by tracing one…

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