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

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Auto-tracing and resolution

Auto-tracing and resolution - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Auto-tracing and resolution

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to auto-trace an image inside Illustrator. And I'll also show you the effects of resolution on the quality of the results. And the very short story there is more resolution is better. So the first thing I'm gonna do is click on my image with the black arrow tool in order to select it. Notice we can see the resolution up here in the control panel. Ppi stands for pixels per inch. 300 tells us that we have 300 pixels per inch, both horizontally, as well as vertically. Which means 90,000 pixels per square inch. Which is your typical professional quality print resolution. Alright, I'm gonna need a copy of this guy for demonstration purposes, so I'll go up to the edit menu and choose the copy command, or of course, you can press control + c or command + c on a Mac. Next, notice this image trace button right there. If you click on the down-pointing arrow head next to it, you'll see a menu of presets. If you're tracing a photograph and you want…

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