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About Tracing Artwork using Live Trace of Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator's Live Trace feature lets you quickly and easily create Illustrator vector artwork based on a scanned drawing, photograph or illustration.

For instance, if you have a scan of a pencil sketch on paper, you can import it into Illustrator and automatically trace around it with the Live Trace command.

The level of detail and how the traced objects are filled can be controlled. When finished, the tracing can be converted to vector paths or a Live Paint object.

Tracing artwork

• Choose File > Open or File > Place to import an image.
• Select the image, and do any of the following:
  • Click the Tracing Presets And Options button in the Control panel, then select a preset.
  • Click the Live Trace button in the Control panel, or select Object > Live Trace > Make to use the default tracing options.
  • Click the Tracing Presets And Options button in the Control panel, and select Tracing Options to choose tracing options before the image is traced.
  • Select Object > Live Trace > Tracing Options, set tracing options, then click Trace.

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