Preparation
Open the photo in Photoshop and removing the background and any areas you so not want to trace there first
If you want less colors to make a smaller vector file, try using the
Posterize filter (Image > Adjustments > Posterize) to lower the
number of colors in the image
Live Trace
Use the place command to place the photo into Illustrator,
click the
Live Trace button and open the tracing options and make any changes you
wish.
When you're done, click Expand.
You can also use the Object >
Live Trace Menu. This one was traced with the Color 16 option. Click the
Expand button to expand the trace to paths.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/illustrator/ss/sflivetrace.htm
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Thursday, 5 January 2012
Re-create a Logo from a Poor Quality Scan with Illustrator
Illustrator CS4
In three different ways:- Live Trace
- manually trace the logo using a template layer
- use a matching font
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