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Tracing an image in Adobe Illustrator

Tracing an image in Adobe Illustrator - Substance Designer Tutorial

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Tracing an image in Adobe Illustrator

a really complex fabric, using Adobe Illustrator to trace an image and then cleaning up that result and bringing it into Substance Designer. This is a useful workflow because a lot of the patterns we want to use are very, very complex, and we could redraw them in Substance Designer, but sometimes we need imported artwork as the website says. So what we can do is rather than use the image as a texture, create our own material in Substance Designer and later, add in a function to allow users What we can see here as we scroll down on the website and download a rendering texture. I'll click on Download Image and save this image into my chapter six exercise files folder. If you're following along with the exercise files, you'll see this image already in your exercise files. I've also downloaded the rendering texture It's interesting because we have two JPGs in there, a diffuse and a normal. Double-clicking on the diffuse shows us this image. We can see in here though, inside of the fabric…

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