Image Trace doesn't work properly while tracing high resolution PSD files in Illustrator
I was tracing a PSD file - template for box - thus fairly sparse graphics, high resolution image 8kx8k. It probably didn't need to be that res, but that is what I was handed. AI trace basically turned the file to mud no matter what settings I used. Now I use Trace a lot, so I was really surprised at the terrible tracing functionality. As a test, I cropped out a single graphic, take it to AI and traced - and it did fine, so I'm thinking that the algorithm compares details to file size and simple doesn't try very hard on small details if they are too small in comparison to the overall file size. I resided the incoming file to 50% - still junk. Graphics had detail that wouldn't survive further shrinking. I ended up using Image2Vector, a clunky mac app, that still required going to a half size file - but it worked well. It seems to me that AI needs another slider allowing the user to select some degree of detail - in return of course for lots more CPU time, but at least a reasonable result can be obtained.
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