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How do I Live Trace and make a single stroke line of my artwork?

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November 6, 2016
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When I Live Trace a raster scanned image (line drawing) in Illustratoer CS6 I get two lines creating (inner and outer) outlines with a fill instead of just a single vector stroke, is there any way to achieve just a single stroke of my line drawing please? Many thanks for any help.

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Miss Sparkles,

In addition to what Ton said, to get stroked paths, you may use Strokes under Tracing options:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

You may also look here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/2013/07/image-trace-in-illustrator-a-tutorial-and-guide.html

Always expand after image tracing to get things to work.

Select it/them and Object>Image Trace>Expand.

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Miss Sparkles,

In addition to what Ton said, to get stroked paths, you may use Strokes under Tracing options:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

You may also look here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/2013/07/image-trace-in-illustrator-a-tutorial-and-guide.html

Always expand after image tracing to get things to work.

Select it/them and Object>Image Trace>Expand.

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You can choose and modify the Line Art preset (but you may not get the simple lines with minimal anchor points that you might expect).