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Using Image Trace

Using Image Trace - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using Image Trace

- [Instructor] You can use Illustrator's image trace function to turn images into vectors. At least more or less. There's going to be a limit to how far you can go. I have this PSD of the fictitious band The Darned here and I want to change what is a composite shot of several studio images, not that you would have ever guessed, of course, into something that's more easily digestible as an actual shot and I've chosen to do that by using a recolored vector. To trace an image, what you need to do is go to the Image Trace button or the arrow next to it in the control strip. Although you also have the option in the Properties panel, Image Trace down there if you need it. I prefer the control strip because it gives you ready access to all of these different presets. I'm going to choose Shades of gray just here and it will start the tracing option. Now, I've made it so this image isn't too large so that it will…

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