Jacquelin Vanderwood

August 2005

Let's discover the magic of Live Trace. Here I've imported one of my watercolors.

Here we have the Live Trace button and the arrow that leads to the a variety of options.

I decided to press the Live Trace button and this is what I got for my effort.

On the other hand I decided to undo the last step and open more options.

Let test the feature by selecting Color 6.

Wow! It sure gives surprising results.

Undo that last step and open Tracing Options. For Mode select Color. I've got the Tiki Swatches open so let's choose it. Hit OK.

Very nice results.

Let's try opening the Cold swatches and repeat that last step by first undoing what we did, and reapplying through Tracing Options.

I'm impressed.

Let's try the Forest color swatches.

The results are really amazing. We only tried a very few features in this lesson but see how tremendous it works. If you would like to go and change areas of any image after conversion, choose the Expand feature and then use the Direct Selection Tool to make changes.

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