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 Domestika addresses the topic: Live Tracing , which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Creative Narrative Recipe Books. Create narrative cookbooks by blending gastronomic writing, personal storytelling, and culinary illustrations to captivate readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, i'm going to show you how to work your files in Illustrator, And we're going to 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 A4 Portrait. And if I go over to file, and the color mode, you'll see that it is CMYK color. which is important because we want to make sure that we can print from this file So CMYK is the right color 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 actually start...”
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