I wanted to ignore the color white for all the image traces. This is how I have accomplished this:    1) Create a custom image trace preset that ignores the white color and save the preset. This will create a "Vectorizng Presets" file that we will edit.    2) I am on Windows, so I went to C:\Users\********\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 29 Settings\en_US\x64 and opened the file "Vectorizing Presets" using my notepad. The first preset is the one you have created. the default collection is named as "/collection7 {"   3) I added this to the bottom of the atrributes and saved it.: /adobe.vectorize.output.shouldIgnoreColors 1 /adobe.vectorize.output.ignoreColors [ 18 363535333520363535333520363535333520 ] /adobe.vectorize.output.alphaEnabledUI 0 /adobe.vectorize.in.fitliveshapes 0 ... View more

I have solved the problem by finding someone who had created these difference clouds using python. I played around with values and managed to get an output that worked wonderfully for my project.  I found the python script in this github repo: https://github.com/nikagra/python-noise I just edited the main to look like this:  if __name__ == "__main__": imageSize = 2800 noise = NoiseUtils(imageSize) # Generate the first noise.cloud pattern noise.makeTexture(texture=noise.cloud) img1 = Image.new("L", (imageSize, imageSize)) pixels1 = img1.load() for i in range(imageSize): for j in range(imageSize): pixels1[i, j] = noise.img[i, j] # Create a second image rotated 90 degrees img2 = img1.rotate(90) # Calculate the difference between img2 and img1 img3 = ImageChops.difference(img2, img1) # Save the difference image img3.save("Difference_Cloud.png") and to control the cloud itself, i edited the "8" value in this function def cloud(self, x, y, func = None): if func is None: func = self.perlinNoise return self.fractalBrownianMotion(8 * x, 8 * y, func)   ... View more