How to turn a silhouette into an outline?

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October 2, 2013
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I need to create a line drawing of the outline of a chair. I tried following the various Illustrator tutorials to take the image of a chair and create a silhouette. However, I can't figure out how to take this silhouette and get just the outline of it. The Illustrator Image Trace tool doesn't seem to have an option to just save the outline.

Is there an easy way in Illustrator or Photoshop to turn this silhouette into an outline image that I can save as a file? I will print the outline in a very light opacity so that the lines are barely visible for hand rendering. I don't want to use the pen tool to outline the silhouette because my hand is too shaky to do a good job.

THank you for any advice...

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elDudereno

Inspiring

After you have the chair traced apply no fill and a black stroke and use the stroke pallette to choose the thickness of your stroke.

Clicking the swap fill and stroke icon is an easy way to start.

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mec_os

Inspiring

use the illustrator live trace. when you have the result you want, expanded. chose "ignore white" in the settings or delete the white areas after expanding.

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MJLeePrimaryAppsAuthor

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Thank you both for trying, but i guess I wasn't clear... To create that silhouette, I already traced the chair in Illustrator CS 6 using Image Trace. I don't see a way to go in and trace the image trace.

Steve Fairbairn

Inspiring

Once you have expanded the trace you just colour the result the usual way.

Instead of a black fill choose a black stroke.

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