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7.02 Finding Easy Images to Trace
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What qualifies as an easy image? The obvious answer is “an image which gives you the results you want!”
But those who are new to the vectorizing process do not always realize which images are going to be easy
and
which ones are not. Note that you shouldn’t be discouraged from trying to trace anything. But when you
are learning the process, working with easier images will make the learning stage go smoother. So here are
a few guidelines in selecting images:
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Black and white images are easier to vectorize than colored images
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Colored images with flat colors are easier to trace than those with variegated colors
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Large, high resolution images are easier to trace than tiny, low resolution images
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Images with tiny details will be more difficult to trace than simpler images with fewer details
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Photographs are usually the most difficult to trace, especially when some of the colors blend (such as
the brown dog on the brown carpet, mentioned earlier).
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For your own personal use, there are many images that can be found on the Internet. Use Google Images to
search and find images based on keywords. Google Images also has filters at the top of the window (under
Search Tools ) to limit your search to black and white, as well as to clipart or line drawings. For example,
after searching on the word cat, one can limit the images in this way:
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Adding the word
“Silhouette”
in a search, will also produce images that are typically very easy to auto-trace:
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When you find an image you want to trace, click on it first to bring up a larger version. Then right-click and
select
Save image as from the popup menu. Note: If you use a browser other than Chrome, the popup
menu may have slightly different wording for saving a file.
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IMPORTANT! Before tracing any Internet images, be sure to check the Terms of Use at the site hosting the
image.
Click on Clip art to find
better images for tracing
Click on Search tools to
open submenu below
Search on “cat
silhouette”
Easily traced images
appear