17. Live Trace

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If you have a digital photo or scanned graphic that you want to convert to editable vector art, you’ll find the techniques you need in this chapter. You will learn how to apply custom tracing settings before and after tracing, create and manage custom tracing presets, release a tracing, expand a tracing into separate paths, and convert a tracing to a Live Paint group.

The tracing features in Illustrator

The Live Trace command can ...

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