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Threshold, Min Area, and Max Colors - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Threshold, Min Area, and Max Colors
I've saved my changes as Comic Art characters.ai. In this exercise I'm going to review the three numerical options that might appear up here in the Control panel, and they include Threshold, we've already seen a preview of that one. Threshold is applicable just to black- and-white tracings and nothing more. Then we have Min Area, which determines the minimum area that Illustrator will trace. And if you're tracing an image in color, then instead of Threshold you'll see Max Colors. All right! So let's start things off by selecting the traced object, which I have, and adjusting the Threshold option. The lowest Threshold value you can assign is 1, and if you assign a Threshold value of 1, and you just have to remember that 0 is black and 255 is white, then you're saying, just those portions of the original image that are less than that Threshold value, that are absolutely black, will get traced, nothing else will get traced. Whereas, if you raise this value to its maximum, 255, then you…
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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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