In today’s tutorial we’re looking at tracing inked lines in illustrator. For this we will use a photograph which we previously took of a mason jar, but you can use any inked art of your choosing. We will place the image onto a new document and then go to Image Trace from the top menu. Let’s begin!
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I have used Illustrator for years and don’t recall ever using this tool. Thank you.
This showed up in the right time and it is super simple.
Thank you
Hey Lorens,
Thanks so much for such wonderful feedback! That is so lovely to hear that we have shown you a new trick for Illustrator. Its one of my favourite things about design as you can literally learn something new everyday :)
Thanks Helen…Design Cuts rocks!
Woohoo thank yo so much, we hope that you really enjoy this tutorial :)
This was an extremely helpful tutorial -detailed, clear explanations of settings and how to get what you want to see with live trace. Thank you!!
Hey Lori,
thank you so much for your comment and we are so glad to hear that this tutorial is super detailed and useful for you!
I hope that you have picked up some great new tips and tricks in this tutorial :)
Thank you very much for this tutorial; very helpful, detailed & clear explanation.Great!
Yay we’re so glad to hear that you like this tutorial Berna and we hope that the new tips and tricks that you have picked up are really useful for your own creative projects :)