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Tracing both strokes and color fills

Tracing both strokes and color fills - Illustrator Tutorial

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Tracing both strokes and color fills

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- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll take a look at how you can combine strokes along with colored fills when tracing our work inside Illustrator. So here we are looking at a Vector take on Albrecht Durer's classic 16th century rhinoceros, which might be better than the last illustration we looked at. And so let's see how we can put something like this together. I'm gonna create a new document just by pressing "control n" or "command n" on the Mac. And I'll once again set the profile to basic RGB, this time our horizontal orientation is gonna work great. At which point I'll click okay in order to create that document. Then, I'll go on up to the file menu and choose the place command, again we have a keyboard shortcut of "control shift p" or "command shift p" on the Mac. And I've got this image here called "Grayscale rhino tif" that I'll just go ahead and double-click in order to load my cursor and then I'll click being careful not to drag inside the document window. Alright, now I want…

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