Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
Live Tracing
A course by Melanie Chadwick , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Live Tracing
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to use the live trace tool to convert the scanned ink drawings and lettering into vector files ready to use.”
In this video lesson Melanie Chadwick addresses the topic: Live Tracing , which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art. Learn how to illustrate food by mixing digital and analog techniques to make your creations richer and tastier.
Partial transcription of the video
“Live tracing In this lesson I'm going to show you how to work your files in Illustrator and we're gonna be using the live tracing tool. This will convert the files into vector files. So let's go. In front of you, you'll see that I've set up my artboard already. It is a full portrait. And if I go over to File and Color Mode, you'll see that it is CMYK Color, which is important because we wanna make sure that we can print from this file, so CMYK is the right colour mode for that. It's also got a little bleed as well, so it's three mils bleed. And, again, you can input that all when you actual...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Infographics, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration
Melanie Chadwick
A course by Melanie Chadwick
Melanie Chadwick is a freelance illustrator and designer currently based in Cornwall, UK. She specializes in map and food illustration and enjoys mixing analog and digital techniques in her work.
She has worked with numerous clients across a range of projects including book illustration, food packaging, restaurant menus, magazine editorials, branding projects, maps, greeting cards, postcards, and more. Her clients include Cornish Seasalt, Foodimentary, Ferment Magazine, American Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic, among others.
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