What am I doing wrong? (Image Trace)

[Minus Front]

So I've seen some (fairly old) online videos where using image trace is a breeze. People use really complex photos of buildings and just go image trace and after a few seconds thousands of vectors are created.

now i am trying to trace a simple rasterized halftone effect with shades of grey preset and get warnings, tracing is very slow and AI ultimatelly freezes and I am forced to shut it down.

I am suggested to rasterize the image but its already rasterized. and there is nothing large about it.

I am under the impression there is a switch or toggle somewhere that I am not aware of that is making this a pain for me.

[Monika Gause]

Illustrator puts up this warning by default. But when you do not have a lot of RAM installed, then indeed it will get slow. Illustrator gives you the tip to lower the resolution by using the Rasterize command and set up a low resolution in there.

[Minus Front]

Hi. I have 32GB of ram installed.

Switching to a 150 ppi resolution as opposed to 300 ppi fixed this, but the tracing quality is pretty bad.

Im just confused that it requires so much resources to trace a simple pattern as opposed to a complex photograph

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Try Black and White as setting with 0% corners.

[Minus Front]

@Ton Frederiksthank you this is what i needed to find. the advanced trace settings were eluding me all this time as they are collapsed by default and easy to miss.

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped.