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Learn about Image Trace, which can automatically turn scanned art into a vector graphic. It replaces the old Live Trace and produces cleaner paths and better color recognition in less time.

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we've come to my favorite new
illustrator feature the revamped image
trace you may laugh it off thinking ill
shooters had tracing capabilities for
quite some time now
and well technically you're correct ill
shooter has been able to trace bitmap
artwork and converted to vector format
for quite a while but im
previous incarnations of this feature I
found it difficult to get the results I
was looking for
but in cs6 the image trace is both
faster
in my experience more accurate as well
image trace is actually replacing
the Live Trace feature in Illustrator
cs6 and it works very differently
as a matter fact it's an entirely new to
all together
the main benefits of the image trace are
cleaner pads
speed enhancements and in my experience
better color recognition
which is huge for us designers for those
of you who aren't familiar with tracing
let me break down exactly what I'm
talking about let's say that you're
working on a project for a client
in the clam brings you a hand drawn
sketch some artwork that they'd like for
you to create
they want their artwork to match the
sketch exactly
well it's your job to recreate that our
work in a usable vector format
so your options are a draw by hand in
Illustrator and get as close as you can
or be utilize the trace feature in lab
illustrator to do the heavy lifting for
you
check out these examples of some artwork
that I've been working on
here you can see a photograph to
instantly turned into a poster
I'm also got another photograph that
changed into a photographic
representation however this is vector
artwork
and finally I have these flowers over
here which were standin'
they're all hand-drawn and over on the
right a complete vector representation
of those as well
I'll cover exactly how to do this in
another movie
but watch just how easy it is to convert
scanned piece of artwork
into a vector object using this tool
I'll jump over here this document
and select this it's just a Jay pag
that's been embedded into the file
if I click image trace I now have a
scaleable
vector object that I can use throughout
any other projects from my client