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Automatically tracing a photograph

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Automatically tracing a photograph

- [Instructor] All right, not all of Illustrator's automatic effects reside in the Effects menu For example, the topic of this chapter is how Illustrator can take any photographic image and automatically trace it with a series of path outlines, and so for example, consider this tree, I'll go ahead and click on it with the black arrow tool to select it, and then I'll press Control + Plus, or Command + Plus on a Mac a few times to zoom in, and now if I switch to the white arrow tool, or if you prefer, the Direct Selection Tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of A for arrow, that we have tons of anchor points and path outlines, and in fact, we have more than 14000 anchor points and more than a thousand independent path outlines which would be quite the feat if you were trying to draw this tree with, say, the Pen tool, whereas Illustrator's able to pull this off in just a few minutes. All right, I'm going to go ahead and…

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