January 2020
Beginner
384 pages
9h 59m
English
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Chapter 3
Placing and Tracing Artwork
IN THIS CHAPTER
Managing artwork from other Illustrator files or outside Illustrator
Integrating artwork from Adobe Draw
Tracing sketches, photos, and other raster art
Cropping graphics with Illustrator
Not everything that ends up in an Illustrator project begins life as an Illustrator object. The genesis of an Illustrator project might start with a raster image, such as a photo. Or an Illustrator project might start with a hastily sketched drawing on an Android or iOS mobile device using Adobe Draw.
Sometimes you'll bring objects into Illustrator as rasters and convert them to vector graphics. Other times you'll bring objects into Illustrator as rasters and they will stay in the project as rasters. Illustrator vector-based graphics are often hybrids, a mix of raster and vector objects.
In this chapter, I explain how to bring all kinds of files into an Illustrator file and describe the essential choices you have when integrating those files into an Illustrator project.
Placing Artwork
In Illustrator, place refers to bringing files into an ...
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