Line art will never be the same

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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2. Line art will never be the same. Tutorial. 1 Place line art in Illustrator. Create a new RGB document in Illustrator CS2. Choose …

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Line art will never be the same
The quality of the new features in Adobe?Illustrator?CS2
is significant for just about any illustrator. Among
them, the new Live Trace and Live Paint features are
probably the most glamorous and useful. In this
tutorial, we’re going to see a real-world example of how
these features can be used to take an ordinary piece of
line art and convert it to vector using Live Trace. Then
we’ll use Live Paint to quickly and easily add color.
Finally, you’ll learn a few tricks to help export this file to
Photoshop for any detail painting.
Use Live Trace
For this tutorial, we’ve taken a drawing from Patrick
Shettlesworth of www.polykarbon.com. He’s an
incredible artist and produces some stunning anime
imagery. This was given to us as a GIF image but it could
just as easily have been a TIFF or PSD among others.
Right-click the image, choose Save As, and then save it to your computer.ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2 2
Line art will never be the same
Tutorial
1 Place line art in Illustrator
Create a new RGB document in Illustrator CS2. Choose
File > Place and navigate to the file that contains the line
art you’d like to trace in Illustrator. This file can be in
many formats. Click the Place button to place this
image into Illustrator.
2 Tracing options
Click on the small circle to the right of the layer’s name
in the Layers palette to target the image.
The layers palette
You’ll see the Live Trace button appear in the Control
Palette under the menu bar. You’ve got a few options at
this point: You could just click the Live Trace button to
use the default settings and see what happens, or you
could click the down arrow next to the Live Trace
button and pick one of the listed presets. You could also
create your own custom settings in the Tracing Options
dialog (Object > Live Trace > Tracing Options).
Click the Tracing Presets And Options button in the Control palette
to select a tracing preset.
3 Click the Live Trace button
For the sake of this example, we’re just…