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Live Trace in Illustrator
Posted 07/01/07 by Stian Bakkane Category: Illustrator | Level: Easy | Hits: 69052 | Favourites: 1 |
In this tutorial you'll learn how to use the wonderful tool that Live Trace is.
Open a new document in Illustrator CS2. Place a graphic you want to trace to vectors.
My example:

I chose an image with low resultotion so that it's easier to see what results you can achieve with this neat feature.
Select your image in Illustrator and go to "Object" - "Live Trace" and select "Tracing Options ".

In the window that pops up, you can set quite a few properties to fit the graphic you want to vectorise. This part really depends on the type of image you want to trace, so you have to play around with the settings until you're happy with the result.

But for my graphic, the default settings seem to do the job. So, when you're done fiddling with the settings, select "Trace" in the top right corner of the "Tracing Options" window.
And voila, your graphic is now vectorised, and can be scaled without loss of quality.

My example:

I chose an image with low resultotion so that it's easier to see what results you can achieve with this neat feature.
Select your image in Illustrator and go to "Object" - "Live Trace" and select "Tracing Options ".

In the window that pops up, you can set quite a few properties to fit the graphic you want to vectorise. This part really depends on the type of image you want to trace, so you have to play around with the settings until you're happy with the result.

But for my graphic, the default settings seem to do the job. So, when you're done fiddling with the settings, select "Trace" in the top right corner of the "Tracing Options" window.
And voila, your graphic is now vectorised, and can be scaled without loss of quality.

Comments

Tobias (38 years ago)
What a horrifically traced vector. The complete thing is out of shape. Sorry I have to say this, but exactly these kind of shapes are *ideal* to trace by hand (and can be done within 20 minutes if you are quick enough in Illustrator).
What a horrifically traced vector. The complete thing is out of shape. Sorry I have to say this, but exactly these kind of shapes are *ideal* to trace by hand (and can be done within 20 minutes if you are quick enough in Illustrator).

fere (38 years ago)
I have the same problem as Sas... i have CS, is this feature available? or it's only on CS2??
I have the same problem as Sas... i have CS, is this feature available? or it's only on CS2??

Sas (38 years ago)
I have Illustrator CS and it doesn't show Live Trace in the Object menu.
What version do you use for this tutorial? CS Should have this feature, but I'm pretty new to Illustrator, so I don't know. x__X;
I have Illustrator CS and it doesn't show Live Trace in the Object menu.
What version do you use for this tutorial? CS Should have this feature, but I'm pretty new to Illustrator, so I don't know. x__X;



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Yup... You're totally right Tobias. I never use live trace anyway... Every trace I do is done by hand.