- Photo Inside of Type
- Start with a Font
- Mapping Made Easy
- Find Your Favorite Logo?
- Change Star Shape, Part One
- Change Star Shape, Part Two
- Send Up a Flare
- Permanent Pathfinder
- Spray On, Spray Off
- Years in Graph Data
- Thats Out of One Hundred
- Edit Graph Designs
- Sliding Graph Designs
- Drag-and-Drop Instead of Copy-and-Paste
- Change Tool Settings on the Fly
- Make Your Own Spirograph
- Convert to Shape
- Let the Blend Tool Do the Math
- More Blending
- Yet More Blending
- Bend the Blend
- Shapes Around a Circle
- Change the Blend
- Outline Stroke
- Live Trace Not Working How Youd Like? Try This
- Is Live Trace Still Not Working How Youd Like? Take It a Step Further
- Viewing Reference Photos When Using the Mesh Tool
- Gradient Brushes
- Divide Objects Below
- Change Grids on the Fly
- Live Interlocking Objects
- Live Interlocking Objects, Part 2
- Creating Wireframes
- Add to a Shape to Create a Shape
- Move Points as You Draw
- Auto Add/Delete Getting in Your Way
- Multiple Objects as a Mask
- Round Those Corners
- Same Width and Height
- Changing Arcs
- Close a Path Automatically
- Preserve Brush Stroke Options
- Disable Auto Add/Delete
- Split into Grid
- The Perfect Star
- Target Practice
- Opacity Masks
- Vintage Texture Effect
Live Trace Not Working How You’d Like? Try This
If you’ve imported a number of sketches into Illustrator and have tried to run Live Trace (under the Object menu) on them, you may have realized it doesn’t always work as good as you’d like. You can try to change the Tracing Options to better fit the sketch that you’re tracing, but that still doesn’t always do the trick. If that’s the case, then try this: Duplicate the sketch layer (go to Window>Layer, and choose Duplicate from the Layer palette’s flyout menu) and, on the Transparency palette, change the Blend Mode of the duplicate to Multiply. Then duplicate the layer copy a couple more times. Each time, you’ll see the sketch get darker and darker. However, since we can’t run Live Trace on several layers at once, we have to flatten the artwork. First, press Command-A (PC: Control-A) to select all the layers. Then, choose Object>Rasterize. Don’t worry about the resolution setting since you’re just going to run Live Trace on this sketch anyway, just click OK. Now you’ll be able to run Live Trace on this image and the results should look much better.