Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies

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 ...