There are two other important settings to consider: Make sure that “Preset” is set to “Default”, “View” is set to “Tracing Result”, and “Mode” is set to “Black and White”. This will show you what the conversion will look like with the selected settings. With the image selected, click “Preview” in the Image Trace panel. You might like to drag it over to your docked panels so that you can access it more easily next time. Go to the Window menu, and select Image Trace to bring up the panel. Next, make sure that the Image Trace panel is turned on. Turn on the Image Trace panel in Illustrator Use the resizing handles to trim the image down to the area just around the art you want to convert to vectors. Right-click (PC/Mac) or ctrl+click (Mac) on the image, and select Crop Image. Alternatively hit ⌘ Shift ⇧ P on Mac, or Ctrl Shift ⇧ P on PC.įind your image file, select it, and then click and drag to insert the file into your document. In your new Illustrator document, go to the File menu at the top of the screen, and select the Place command. Place the image file into your Illustrator document

It doesn’t matter what size you choose for the initial artboard-I just went for A4 landscape.Ĥ. Once you’ve got the photo saved to your computer, open up Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. If you’re using your phone, the easiest way to transfer the image to your computer is probably to email it to yourself and download it. Download the image to your computer and open Illustrator

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