
Feb 06, 2014
In a recent post, Give your line art the outline it’s missing in Photoshop, we demonstrated how to create a custom shape and refine its outline in Adobe Photoshop. Today, we’ll take a look at how to, similarly, create pop-art imagery in Adobe Illustrator‘s Live Trace tool (CS4 and CS5), or also known as the Image Trace tool (CS6). For the purpose of this post, we’ll be using the CS4 version and will refer to the tool as Live Trace. Illustrator’s Live Trace feature makes it easy for you to re-invent your raster art by creating workable vector line art. This is a great way to create the stylised line art associated with pop art. Live Trace has preset options to convert images into black-and-white line art.How to use the Live Trace tool
- Select your raster art file and open with Illustrator.
- Select the art and go to the ‘Object’ tab in the File Menu.
- Find ‘Live Trace’ and select ‘Tracing Options.’
- In the pop-up box, change the Preset from ‘Default’ to ‘Black And White Logo’ and click Trace.

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