![]() I’m going to go with the 16 Colors preset for our bunny here – when we click on the selected preset in the drop-down menu, Illustrator will get right to work on making your image into a vector graphic. ![]() The ones I tend to stick with for my personal use are High/Low Fidelity Photo (which results in a more photorealistic image than the other presets), 16 color (for a more artistic, painting-like graphic), and Sketched Art (if I’m trying to make a vector graphic from a pencil and paper sketch). We’ve got lots of choices here! I won’t go into too much detail on every single one, and some of them have names that are really obvious as to what they’ll do to your image (for example, 3 Colors will limit your image to just three colors, and Shades of Gray will turn your image into a grayscale vector image). We’ve got a lot of presets to choose from! We can view those presets by clicking on the little drop-down arrow next to the Image Trace button. ![]() Let’s take a look at the different tracing presets before going on. If you couldn’t resist and clicked on the Image Trace button anyway, you might get some strange results – Illustrator will automatically choose the last used preset to trace your image if you click the Image Trace button without choosing a preset first. Do you want it to look photorealistic, even though it’s a vector graphic? Do you want it to have fewer colors and look more like a painting? Do you want just a black and white image or a sketch? You’ve got a choice to make before you jump right in and click the Image Trace button – and that’s what preset we’ll be using. There’s our Image Trace button! Before you click on the button, though, you’ll want to think about what you want your image to look like when it’s done. I’ll first need to click on the image with the Selection tool active, then look up at the Control Panel and look for the following button: Now that I’ve got my image in Illustrator, I’m going to get ready to trace my image. Once Illustrator is open, I can open up my photo and Illustrator will put it on an artboard for me. (For versions of Illustrator older than CS6, look for Live Trace instead of Image Trace.) The first thing I’ll need to do is, of course, open up Illustrator. I’ll be using Illustrator CC 2017 in this blog post for demo purposes, but you can use any version of Illustrator and achieve the same results. For those of you who’ve taken Creating Graphics for the Web, this little guy should look familiar! I’ll be using this rabbit photo, which is a. ![]() In this blog post, I’ll be taking you through the process of creating and editing an image via Image Trace. Using Image Trace is pretty easy, but getting your new vector graphic to a state where you can edit it takes a little work. It’s especially fun to use on photographs that you can then tweak as you like to create interesting works of art or incorporate into other vector graphics like logos. Image Trace allows you to take a raster graphic (or bitmap graphic, if you’re more familiar with that term) and turn it into a fully editable vector graphic with just a few clicks. One of my favorite features of Illustrator, dating all the way back to Illustrator CS2 (when it was previously called Live Trace), is Image Trace. ![]()
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