From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Advanced

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,900 courses taught by industry experts.

The advanced tracing options

The advanced tracing options - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Advanced

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

The advanced tracing options

“

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at the advanced tracing options, which again, are made available to us inside the image trace panel. So I'll start things off by clicking on the line art in order to select it, and then I'll click on the triangle in front of the word advanced, we're at the bottom of the image trace panel, in order to expand these many additional options. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on these details in front of the pencil, which are intended to indicate flecks of graphite. And we're going to start things off with this noise option right here. If your image is noisy, that is, it contains a bunch of random flecks, then you can crank this value up to ignore smaller details, and at 71 pixels, we're saying that anything that is smaller than 71 pixels will not get traced, and as a result, I lost a lot of those little bits of graphite. And I also lost the interior of the A, the O and the R,…

Contents