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Threshold, Min Area, and Max Colors

Threshold, Min Area, and Max Colors - Illustrator Tutorial

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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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