Hi there and welcome to Image Tracing in Adobe Illustrator.
Now we're going to start from an image, a High-Resolution image for a cute dog and turn it into a path,
which means we're going to trace it and then try to change the colors and maybe edit whatever is inside.
It can do that with almost an image.
I'm going to show you a couple of techniques here and what works and what doesn't work on your system.
So let's start.
First of all, we're going to find a place I'm going to go to image, it's called Dog.
And we are going to places I'm going to place one over here.
That's big enough and duplicated, just duplicated over here, because I want to show you different
techniques.
This image is high resolution, as you can see.
As soon as you have an image and you click on it, you will notice that you have here image trees.
I'm going to start by clicking over here and simply going to the default.
Not much.
And it's going to give me tracing may proceed slowly with this large image, would you like to continue?
No, I don't want to continue.
I want to rest tries to take down the resolution of the image.
How do you do that?
Well, you select your image and then you go to object.
And over here you have an asterisk.
This is similar to what you have seen in documentaries or effects you don't use surrounded by when you
are working.
Maybe you reduce it, as you can see, to 72.
And later on, you hike it back when you want to print the same way for an image.
After you trace the image, you cannot read the stories and go back and stories.
So we got to do that.
We've got to come to object and rationalize the image and take it to 72.
Now, I'll show you the difference between 72 and 300 and click.
OK, now there's the image.
Resolution has changed.
It is less perfect now or the pictures are bigger.
Let's take the first image here and go to image trees and give it the default.
The default here is black and white.
Let's take now the image of the high resolution and go for default, and it's going to give me the story,
I click, OK, because it's going to do it only once and notice the difference.
This is high resolution.
This is not high resolution at all.
The difference is quite impressive.
But now do not disregard the 72 PBI.
It can really give you very nice results.
Let's see, from the fourth year, I'm going to go for a six colors or even three colors to start with.
That's the three color.
It has even changed the background.
Let's go for three colors here and you have to learn how to wait.
And it is now in charge in pixelate clustering is going to do a lot of work.
I'm going to speed it up for you.
And you notice the difference, this is quite altruistic.
And this is another one which is really quite artistic, but a lot of details here, if you want.
You have had the option of the menu if you click on it or the trace panel, you have lots of options
you can work with and are all very interesting.
Most of them, at least the first one, is for the autocar, meaning you instead of choose the colors,
I'm going to click on it because it's going to take time again.
I'm going to speed it up.
And you notice now the background is back to why there is a good precision here with the dogs that face
the white on the dog.
Let's do the same with this guy.
We go to this and it's almost automatic.
You notice two Treuhand 300.
This one is quite speedy.
I like this artwork a lot, by the way.
You have several options that you can try here, some of them are really quite nice.
I'm going to go for high colors and you'll notice the resolution is not bad at all.
It's an art.
It's something that you want to create and maybe you want to change.
Now, if I go for the high colors here, they're going to take some time.
Here you are.
It's really a lot of this this is not the real image, guys.
This is the image.
There is practically no difference here.
They can even expand this one now, make it all together and work on it.
It's going to give you great results here.
It depends on what you want to do.
I'm going to go for the low color because it somehow gives us better results so we can believe this
is not the real image.
Much better now because we can see that is really racialized and somehow we can see the path.
Now, within here, you notice the number of colors, if you like this one, it has 85 colors.
This is high pass or high colors, if you like.
This is now low.
It has 30 colors.
This one has 85 colors.
You can reduce the number of colors, something that is, you know, not so advanced to do, and it
will recalculate and gives you the colors.
I like this one very much.
Let's do this one, not high color, but we're going to take it to.
And now reduce the number of callers I have only 16 callers I can reduce to 10 callers just to show
you and is going to go again.
Now, if you look at the difference in art itself, this is not bad at all, but I do sincerely love
this one.
It has more mysterious.
Now, after playing here, playing with your cars and saying you have an infinite number of details
you can play with, let's see what we can do with this image.
Now, first thing you want to do.
I'm going to use this one because I like it.
Is to expand, expand means, turn everything into park or fields, if you like.
It has expanded the image can do the same for here, I'm going to expand it, let's work on this one,
close the image.
We don't want any more.
The first thing is to select the direct connection tool.
Not just now, I can select the background, which is totally useless.
I'm going to delete it.
Same for here.
This is somehow the control, not the background.
I'm going to delete it.
So I have only this.
Let's start with this one, I can select a colour and I can change the color.
Now, if I come over here, I can change the color.
If you select everything and change the color, one feel is not going to give you any good results,
just a silhouette or something like this.
So it will change the color of this guy.
I'm going to undo keeping my selection.
I'm going to go select and ask him to select all the path that have the same feel.
It's fit color here.
So there are many then I can change them to a brighter color, for example, even more bright, something
like this, not this, you changed all the image.
That's pretty good.
You can do the same here.
I don't know if you're going to find colors because this one had a lot of colors.
Select a seam fit colors.
Not it doesn't have.
There is a lot of color variation here.
I'm going to do this, and now obviously you can come over zoomIn, if you like, and decide, OK,
this year I don't want it.
Let's go for this election to.
Like this ship and go inside the group over here and delete it, for example, or, I don't know, change
its color.
We did that.
And maybe to play this one differently, it's quite intense here for you to work with, but you can
really work it out.
Let's take this path and this path and maybe we can come to the shipbuilders tour and merge them.
I might select this shape and shift, select the other one, use the ShareBuilder to just match the
colors if you want to, and maybe I'll select also this one.
I command you to do the selection of the plus and maybe this guy.
And this guy and then use the selection tool to match everything, all the selected.
And it is everything, it's about changing your artwork.
Now let's play a game which I love very much so we can exit.
Now I'm going to direct all of them and go to the color game in Ghasem Incontrol, plus actually put
two of them at the same time and go to a recolour.
And that's the number of colors that are here.
Pretty impressive, right?
And let's change from nine to corporate colors, for example.
No color properties and take the cool.
And this is pretty cool.
I see the same here and select here, all of them and go red color and also select the same one that
is color properties and cool take.
The first choice is not the first choice, but I think it is.
Yes, it's the first choice here, not is the difference, what's your art, what's your style, what
you want to create?
How do you want to play with it?
How do you want to.
Try something else.
Going to make a copy of this, that's one single group I'm going to make a copy over here.
Just put it like this and recolour, and now I'm going to take something very interesting.
I hope so.
Which is where all the good stuff.
Yes, well, that's fantastic.
I can assure you, if you change this one, you will not get a very good one going to select again and
duplicate it.
And from kids stuff I'm going to recolor go back to kids stuff.
And change.
Now it's changing, very nice.
Somehow nice, that's very nice.
That's even nicer.
This is pretty cool, guys, actually, similar to this guy is go for the saturation or.
And then she's more.
Very nice.
That's a very nice outlook.
And now you have something awesome that you can work with and really blossom your creativity.
I hope so.
This to images and to play with them.
I admit I have taken a very difficult example here.
You know, this dog was a lot of refined things, but they end up to be quite cool on the other side.
And you can now add it is removed.
It is.
And to your water.
And, you know, creativity is very important.