Creating Vector Content Using Live Trace A Feature of Adobe Illustrator CS2

Creating Vector Content
Using Live Trace
A Feature of Adobe Illustrator CS2

Adobe® Illustrator® C S2 puts industry-standard drawing tools at designers’ fingertips so that they can create graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices with ease. And now, with the new Live Trace feature, Illustrator CS2 offers an entirely new way to create vector graphics. Live Trace, a breakthrough tracing tool, lets you convert scanned line art and bitmap images to scalable, editable vector paths and anchor points in just seconds.

How many times have you roughed out an idea on the back of a paper placemat, only to have to recreate your work from scratch on the computer? How often have you wished you could scan a photograph and convert it directly to a vector graphic as the starting point for an illustration? With Live Trace, you can do both—and more.

What makes Live Trace “live” is a link that is maintained between the original bitmap image and the traced vector result. You can experiment with tracing options ranging from aesthetic to technical, from color swatches to pixel value thresholds. The traced result updates automatically, even if the original linked bitmap file is modified. Not only is Live Trace live, it’s also intelligent—its choice of the total number and placement

of anchor points rivals that of the most skilled Illustrator artist.

This white paper is intended for graphic designers, art directors, freelancers, web designers, print and prepress professionals, and others who are involved in the day-to-day, hands-on creation of graphic materials for print, the web, and mobile devices. It explains how Live Trace works and how you can use it to achieve a high-qua lit y vector foundation on which to build your creative artwork. Read More Download Here