Adobe Please Update Image Trace in AI

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March 5, 2024
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Totally undestand the business aspects of focusing on tools which have the most users. However Image Trace appears stuck in a time warp and not moving forward. May be stretching but with the AI, ML tools Image Trace should be far more capable than the current form. The inability to distinguish lines in an image is of concern. You should be able to draw more interest to take raster drawings to the next level with Illustrator. Has been almost 24 years when this was released. Defintely time to take to the next level.

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westdr1dwAuthor

Brainiac

Lesson learned which may help others tracing image. If Image Trace fails to capture the entire image, which in most cases it will not. The Isolation Mode feature will change the opacity of the original image and allow you to trace in order to fill in the missing information. This makes life a lot easier.

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Bobby Henderson

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While Live Trace and Live Paint could use some improvements these kinds of raster to vector conversion filters are, at best, going to get only so good. The tools are limited even more by the varying quality of source imagery being fed into them.

I lowered my expectations of auto-tracing tools a long time ago. They might be okay to use for quick and dirty work. Sometimes I'll use the tools to create deliberately grungy objects, but even then I'll have to fix overlapping paths and clean up little bits of vector trash scattered around the resulting shapes. When I need a clean and precise conversion of pixel-based artwork into vector form I usually have to re-build it by hand. If lettering is involved hopefully I have the same fonts used in the design.

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westdr1dwAuthor

Brainiac

Bobby;

Appreciate the reply. However, this is my point. Not sure they have really done much to enhance the interoperability between the Creative Cloud apps. Adobe has made tremendous strides in their software. I recall with ver 5 of PS and the steep learning curve just to learn the basics. With 25.5.1 they have really made life easy. Should be no reason to lower expectations. I have confidence Adobe can achieve this in a very short time. Then bring back the Users who lost confidence.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

And your concern is that it cannot trace contours very well?

I have a surprise for you: Particularly in order to get better contour trcing, you will absolutely need what is called artificial intelligance. Only with A.I., Illustrator will be able to make sense out of this:

What is the outer shape and what is the decoration? Any autotrace module needs to be able to tell those apart in order to make meaningful contour traces.