Adobe Illustrator continues to receive praise from the press. Read our materials to discover the joys of using it on your own.  Home Vector Graphics Adobe Illustrator Live Trace in Illustrator

Live Trace in Illustrator


Open a new document in Illustrator CS2. Place a graphic you want to trace to vectors.

My example:

image 1

I chose an image with low resultotion so that it's easier to see what results you can achieve with this neat feature.

Select your image in Illustrator and go to "Object" - "Live Trace" and select "Tracing Options ".

image 2

In the window that pops up, you can set quite a few properties to fit the graphic you want to vectorise. This part really depends on the type of image you want to trace, so you have to play around with the settings until you're happy with the result.

image 3

But for my graphic, the default settings seem to do the job. So, when you're done fiddling with the settings, select "Trace" in the top right corner of the "Tracing Options" window.

And voila, your graphic is now vectorised, and can be scaled without loss of quality.

Live Trace in Illustrator



Author's URL: Stian Bakkane
Final results of our readers
New!
Passed through all the steps? Share your result!
Your result will be premoderated.
Please make sure you choose the right image.
 
 



Captcha

*Required fileds
Adobe Illustrator continues to receive praise from the press. Read our materials to discover the joys of using it on your own. More Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: Featured Materials | Fresh Materials | More Adobe Illustrator Tutorials at Vectorials.com


Like us to: