Image tracing in Adobe Illustrator

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TylerGAID
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2 min readDec 1, 2021

Sometimes you wish you can move the sketch from your sketchbook into the digital world in Adobe Illustrator, It is possible to bring your sketch to Illustrator with 4 simple steps!

Uses of the image tracing

1-You can make more details using the pencil!

2-it is useful for people who find it hard to use the pen tool.

3-if you have an old sketched logo, you can bring it back to life!

1- Take a Photo

First of all, take a photo of the sketch that you want to image trace in Illustrator.

2- Bring into Illustrator

Open the photo taken of the sketch into Adobe Illustrator to start.

3- Object

Select the image and then go to Object, Image trace, and then press on make and expand.

4- Final touches

congratulations! you have turned your sketch into an outlines in Adobe Illustrator, now you can adjust it with the pen tool as you like easily and it is fully vectorized, so you can recreate your sketch and play with it.

The sketchbook version and the image traced version final result.

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