Image Trace Tutorial

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I'm looking for a good in depth tutorial for using Image Trace and all it's options. Any suggestions? I have some heavy machinery images I'd like to be able to turn into 2 color vector art for screen printing and I'm hoping there's a way to use image trace other than the way I'm doing it now .... which takes way too much time. TIA

Monika Gause · Accepted Answer

That would be great if I wanted to pay a monthly subscription. Thanks though.

Then read the documentation. It tells you everything about the settings:

How to edit artwork in Illustrator using Image Trace

Myra Ferguson · Answer

I'm sure there are lots of tutorials, but I'm afraid they might frustrate you since you're saying what you're trying now is taking too much time. What I mean is while the tutorials can show you what the different settings do, the problem is that it will likely take playing around with the settings in the Image Trace panel (Window > Image Trace) as opposed to using the defaults. And even at that, you might not get the result you want. Depending on the image and the desired output, you might be better off recreating it with shapes or the Pen tool. If you can post an example of the type of art you'd like to convert, we can help you out with some suggestions on what might work to convert it more accurately, efficiently, or hopefully both.

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