By releasing the mouse button, you can cut the vectors where you have drawn by applying the change. Stacy Stacy Lee is an eccentric writer and an avid traveler. She loves to explore new books and locations with her pooch. Table of contents how do you trace an object in illustrator ? What Is Tracing In Illustrator? A tracing preset can be selected in the Control Panel by clicking the Tracing Presets and Options button. With the placed image selected, do one of the following:.
Illustrator converts the image to black and white tracing result by default. Click the Image Trace button in the Control panel or the Properties panel, or select a preset from the Tracing Presets button. For details, see Specify tracing options Preset. Choose a preset from the Preset drop-down menu. Specify the tracing options. For details, see Specify tracing options. In the Image Trace panel, enable Preview to see the results of your modifications.
The resolution of your placed image determines the speed of the tracing. Specify tracing options. Basic controls. Name of the preset. Creates a posterized image from photo or artwork. High Color. Creates photorealistic artwork of high fidelity.
Low Color. Creates simplified photorealistic artwork. Traces the artwork to shades of gray. Black And White. Simplifies the image to black-and-white artwork. Simplifies the image to black outlines. Additional presets are accessible in the top drop-down menu. The following color settings appear based on the settings in the Mode option:. You can choose one of the following options:. Click the Swatch Libraries Menu icon on the lower-left of the Swatches panel. Alternatively, choose Open Swatch Library from the panel menu.
Choose a library from the list. For details, see Use swatch libraries. Explore the many public color themes available in the Explore tab or create your own color themes. Then, add the selected color theme to the Swatches panel.
For details, see Use the Adobe Color Themes panel. Advanced controls. Specifies an area in pixels that is ignored while tracing. A higher value results in less noise. Specifies a method for tracing. Creates stacked paths.
Each path slightly overlaps its neighbor. Creates filled regions in the tracing result. Creates stroked paths in the tracing result. Snap Curves To Lines. Ignore White. Specifies if white fills areas are replaced with no fills.
Save a tracing preset. Set tracing options for the preset using the Image Trace panel. This allows you to view the results of the image trace before you apply it. Select an image preset optional. If you want to make things easier, you can select a preset which will set all the image trace settings for you. Use the drop-down menu next to "Presets" to select a preset.
Your options include the following: [1] X Research source High Fidelity: This preset preserves as many colors as possible. This is used for creating photo-realistic images, but may be taxing on your computer's processor. Low Fidelity: This preset reduces the amount of color in the final trace. This is good for creating a simplified photo-realistic image.
This is a good preset for logos or drawings that only have a few colors. This is good for more complex logo designs as well as some cartoon drawings. This is good for cartoon images that have a wide variety of colors. Shades of Grey: This creates a greyscale image trace, which includes black and white, and shades of grey to shade the image. Black and White: This creates an image that only uses black and white. There are no shades of grey with this option.
Outline: This creates an image that is traced with black outlines. Select a view mode. This selects how the image preview will look in your Illustrator file. Use the drop-down menu next to "View" to select a preview mode. Your options are as follows: Tracing Results: This displays a preview that looks exactly like the image after it has been traced. Tracing Results with Outlines: This displays the tracing results with outlines around the shapes highlighted.
Outlines: This only displays the outlines around the shapes that are traced. Outlines with Source Image: This displays the outlines that are traced around the shapes with the original raster image below the outlines. Source Image: This only displays the original raster image that is being traced. Select a mode. This selects a color mode for the traced image. Use the drop-down menu next to "Mode" to select a color mode. Your options are as follows: [2] X Research source Colors: This produces a colored image.
When this mode is selected, a slider bar appears below the "Pallete" drop-down menu that allows you to select how many colors you want to allow in your image trace. Grey: This produces a greyscale image that consists of black and white with shades of grey.
When this mode is selected, a slider bar appears below the "Pallete" drop-down menu that allows you to select how many shades of grey you want to allow in your image trace.
Black and White: This produces an image that only uses black and white. There are no shades of grey. When this option is selected, you can use the slider bar next to "Threshold" to adjust at which color value colors change from black to white. Select a color palette optional. Use the drop-down menu next to "Palette" to select a color palette.
This option is only available if you have selected "Color" or "Greyscale" mode. The palette options are as follows: Automatic: This automatically selects a color palette from the traced image. Limited: This option selects a limited number of colors from the source image to create a traced image to use in the color palette. Full Tone: This option uses the full range of colors from the source image to create a traced image.
Document Library: This option allows you to select a pre-existing color palette from a list of palettes. Use Advanced Options to fine-tune the traced image optional. If you find the traced image doesn't look quite right, you can click Advanced Options to expand the Advanced Options menu.
Then use the slider bars to adjust the advanced options. The advanced options are as follows: Paths: Use the slider bar next to "Paths" to adjust the path settings. The higher the path settings, the shorter the distance between the traced shapes and the original raster image.
Corners: Use the slider bar next to "Corners" to adjust the corner settings. This adjusts how likely a sharp bend will turn into a corner point.
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