Smooth tool on paths

[omgl91861991]

Hi, please excuse me or point me in the right direction if this has been asked before.

Also excuse my terminology, I'm very new to Illustrator

I am working on smoothing out jagged lines from a scanned in drawing that I image traced to a vector.

I followed this video online to smooth out and jagged bits I have Adobe Illustrator Smooth Tool Tutorial - YouTube

My problem is, the blue path is smoothing but not the line inside. If you can see here on the bottom the path is nice and smoothed out, but not the line inside. Really hoping someone can help me with this.

Also if anyone has any better suggestions they are also welcome.

Thank you!

[Mylenium]

You are likely just working on one of the elements while the actual appearance is produced by multiple objects. You have to drill down into the structure of the layer, ungrup items, release clipping paths and all that good stuff before you actually get to the objects. And well, in your case it seems you would be much quicker simply re-tracing it manually. Image trace is realyl only meant for much more complex items where it would take too long to do everything manually.

Mylenium

[Jacob Bugge]

omgl,

You may use Strokes under Tracing options to get stroked paths, and you may try out different settings:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

You may also look here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/2013/07/image-trace-in-illustrator-a-tutorial-and-guide.html

[Monika Gause]

The problem is that you didn't set "Ignore white" when tracing and then you wmoothed the white areas instead of the black.

Better than smoothing afterwards is to set decent options for the trace so you don't have to smooth.

You might want to read the documentation. Jacob has posted the link.

[omgl91861991]

Thank you! This worked perfectly! I will read the above too as my basic knowledge is weak.