- 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
Is Live Trace Still Not Working How You’d Like? Take It a Step Further
If the previous tip doesn’t do the trick when working with Live Trace, then you may have to resort to some more extreme measures. Try opening the sketch in Photoshop. Choose Image> Adjustments>Levels to display the Levels dialog box. Try moving the black slider under Input Levels toward the right to darken the lines. When you’re done, click OK, save the image, and import this sketch into Illustrator again. Using Levels in Photoshop will help give Illustrator more definition with which to trace the image and you should come out with a much better result.