Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

In Figure 11-10, transparent display of the fi ll is particularly visible

along the top part of the last D, where you can see that Illustrator fi lled

in the outline to smooth out the antialiased edges of the raster image

underneath.

The Outlines option is probably best for our purposes. Choose

it from the smooth pyramid icon’s pop-up menu.

8.

Change the preview settings for the original raster image. Click-

ing the chunky pyramid in the control panel will reveal the

options for the preview of the raster image. You can choose to

view the original, not view it, or set it to Transparent (which

is really “translucent” in this case). Each of these options has

some obvious uses depending on what you’d like to see behind

your trace. The other option, Adjusted Image, will be handy for

this exercise, but it requires a little bit of explaining.

When you’re creating a black-and-white trace, Illustrator consid-

ers every pixel to be either black or white, even when there are

shades of gray in the original. (Illustrator is very literal about

“black and white.”) So the adjusted image represents Illustrator’s

interpretation of our original, with every pixel being assigned

to either black or white. The result becomes the sole basis for

Illustrator’s tracing outline.

To see what I mean, choose Adjusted

Image from the black pyramid’s pop-

up menu. See the chunky black-and-

white interpreted ...