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Tracing artwork
In some cases, you may want to base
a new drawing on an existing piece of
artwork. For example, you may want
to create a graphic based on a pencil
sketch drawn on paper, or an image
saved in another graphics program. In
either case, you can bring the image
into Illustrator and trace over it.
You have two ways of tracing artwork,
depending on the source of the artwork
you want to trace and how you want to
trace it:
• You can open an image in PICT or
MacPaint
®
format as a template. See
Using templates .
• You can place an EPS image into an
Illustrator document, put it on a layer,
and dim the layer. See
Tracing over an
EPS or TIFF image .
See also Drawing with the autotrace tool .
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