From the course: Illustrator: Tracing Artwork
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Expand your artwork into vector paths - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Tracing Artwork
Expand your artwork into vector paths
- [Instructor] So far we've come a long way. We've taken a piece of sketched artwork. We've cleaned it up in Photoshop. We've brought it into Illustrator. We've gotten it to this point where we're pretty happy with it. We've done it all within the safety and confines of the image trace panel. Now it's time to leave that comfort zone. Everything we've done up until now can be undone. We can go into the image trace panel and completely erase everything we've done and get back to the original object. But, we can't do what we need to do in terms of cleaning up this thing for real until we've expanded it into actual vector paths. Because right now, when I click on it, notice how it's just got that big blue x across it. That means that it's just a regular old tracing object. We have to use the image trace panel in order to make any changes to it. The image trace panel takes the time to redraw it any time we move it, resize it, do whatever we need to do to it. That takes up a whole lot of…
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