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Tracing a photograph

Tracing a photograph - Illustrator Tutorial

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Tracing a photograph

We are going to start this project differently than we have in the past. Rather than beginning with the blank artboard and creating an illustration out of whole cloth, we are going to trace a base photograph. Now when I say trace, I don't want you to take that too literally. I don't mean that we are going to scrupulously reproduce every single design element that you see before you're on screen right now, because after all, what would be the point of exactly replicating somebody else's piece of artwork. Instead, we are going to use this photograph as the basis for our own unique design as you will see. The photograph in question is Tile photo.jpeg. It's found inside the 06_transform folder. Just to establish things, I have this photograph opened inside of Photoshop. I am going to go ahead and zoom in on it and I shot this image, I should tell you, using an E30, which is an absolutely great digital SLR from Olympus. And we are going to take this photograph and we are going to trace it…

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