What Happened to the NEW Image Trace in Illustrator 27.6.1??

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Жыл бұрын

Are you getting bad results from the NEW Image Trace panel in Illustrator 27.6.1? In this video, I share my tips for adjusting the settings to get better tracings. In the new version of Image Trace, auto-detect does not work as expected, and you can improve the results by working with the settings. Ignore White is now Ignore Color, which can only be enabled when your tracing method is set to Cut Out. The noise setting is set too high by default, and tracings look unfocused with missing details. No worries, with a few adjustments, you'll get more accurate tracings!
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@barryh1947 Жыл бұрын

Very helpful, I was starting to despair of the 'improvements' Thank you.

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@lox_the_cat 11 ай бұрын

I was going insane trying to figure out why Image Trace was behaving strangely all of a sudden, and I didn't see the "Method: Cut Out" options until watching your video. Thank you! That fixed my problem. There is a huge difference between "cut out" and "overlap" tracing!

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! Yes, there's a big difference. It's good to be able to choose which one you want, but easy to miss that setting.

@TanChoonHong 8 ай бұрын

Perfectly helpful. Thank you so much for showing me around.

@LauraCoyle 8 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@bonzai2oo Жыл бұрын

At first I was no fan of the new Image Trace, but after watching this and playing around some you've changed my view. I don't know if it was there before, but the Save as New Preset is something I will be using for sure. Thanks for going over the new Ignore Color eyedropper, Simplify, and Revert to Original - all welcome features. You really make some great videos Laura, thank you!

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

Aww, thanks so much! The saved preset was there before - but I feel like we need it now more than ever ;-)

@tanahanson3630 11 ай бұрын

thank you Laura! saved me some time on a beautiful Friday afternoon.

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@Pennyguin Жыл бұрын

Sooooo useful - thank you! 😊

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that!😁

@victoriagreen8549 Жыл бұрын

Thank you SO much for this info!!! Now I need to decide wether to revert back to a prior version, or keep this one.

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! I really think with tweaked settings, it will be ok to stay current - but I can understand downgrading too!

@creativeallure299 Жыл бұрын

Thant you Laura, this is very helpful!

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

@BenjaminCano 11 ай бұрын

Amazing tutorial, thank you

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@heejungkang2011 Жыл бұрын

omg this is a jewel! thank you so much!!!

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

@jodyknight Жыл бұрын

Great video thanks Laura. I will definitely put all of these tips to good use. Hope you are well and happy and that life is treating you very well

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

@sss128 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this. Once again Adobe makes an express trip to Stupidville, going away from a long established feature. My workaround has been to trace in an older version. This video is exceptionally helpful. Thank you.

@LauraCoyle 10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! They have heard our complaints and fixed it in the most recent version, so try it out and see if it's better for you now. Take care!

@mickjayplays Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, but for things like I use this for the vast majority of the time...logo vectorizing (I currently work in a sign shop)...this new tracing "feature" is a significant downgrade. Even after playing with it for days, I still can't get results as crisp and accurate as I could with the old tracing algorithms. We really need Adobe to bring back "Legacy Tracing" as an option like Legacy Export.

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing - sorry to hear that - I need to try this on some logos, very different from drawings. I hope Adobe improves this!

@esaratullu1696 8 ай бұрын

Great video. Thank you

@LauraCoyle 8 ай бұрын

You are welcome!

@user-hc9yu3ie6h Жыл бұрын

you are just amazing wonderful great teaching thank you mam

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

@lindysmith13 Жыл бұрын

thanks for the tips

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

You bet!

@aboumar_d Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@QueenbeeTTV Жыл бұрын

this video is BASED thank you

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

you are welcome!

@zeeshanmasood4990 5 ай бұрын

Thankyou

@LauraCoyle 5 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

@jackie.mendoza 11 ай бұрын

LIFE SAVER!

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

YAY! 😁

@jimbatty3357 9 ай бұрын

Hi Laura, great vid. I am a beginner. How do you get your trace and expand options fixed on the top bar please ? I can never find anything. That would help alot.

@LauraCoyle 9 ай бұрын

Go to the Window menu and choose Control, this puts the bar at the top that shows options based on your selection. Thanks!!

@steve42lawson 7 ай бұрын

1:28 More than likely, those "6 colors" are actually tones of black [aka levels of "gray"]. When paint programs, like Fresco, do "anti-aliasing" they smooth out "jaggies" (those stair-step edges you see in a solid black and white digital drawing) by using gradations of color. If the edge being smoothed is colored black, the gradations will be levels of gray. In the digital-art world, "gray" is a _color._ In the case where you saw "thousands of colors", the same thing is probably true. If you zoom into an edge, you will likely see these "colors" as various tones of black, creating the illusion of a smooth edge, void of jaggies. It's an illusion because ALL digital images have jaggies if you look close enough, because of pixels, which always have a size, and thus, assuming the pixels are square or rectangular, present a stair-step edge for angles other than 0°, 90°, 180°, etc. Bottom line, those "colors" are likely shades of gray (tones of black).

@LauraCoyle 7 ай бұрын

I understand anti-aliasing - my puzzlement is why the new update to this feature "auto-detection" thought that drawing would be best served by a fulltone color tracing. It's confusing and misleading, especially for newer users. Since this video, Adobe removed the faulty "auto-detection," and the default tracing is again black and white. Hopefully, if they reintroduce auto-detect, it will work as expected.

@MsJoiwind 11 ай бұрын

Love your content! Is it possible to do a centerline trace in Illustrator without tracing by hand? TIA!

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! You can check strokes instead of fills when you are tracing, but for a drawing like the flowers in the video, I've never gotten results that are not good enough in quality to be useful. It doesn't know the difference between outlining a leaf shape, and drawing the stem and veins separately - it kind of mushes the parts together ;-)

@MsJoiwind 11 ай бұрын

@@LauraCoyle Perfect explanation! Thank you for replying!

@tiffanyw3794 4 ай бұрын

Do you have a setting for color images

@LauraCoyle 4 ай бұрын

In a nutshell, I like to lower the number of colors (starting from one of the limited color presets then working with the slider) as much as I can to keep the result from getting too complex. Hope that helps!

@VOJNIKSRECE94 8 ай бұрын

Hi. I need help 😂 Im using 2018 Il and when i trace logo why i cant move shapes from that logo ? It only transfer it to vector but i cant "cut" it in shapes like on this video here it doesnt show anchor points on image but on image trace panel it say i have lots of anchor points. Sorry for badly english. I love your video its very beautiful and really professional made.

@LauraCoyle 8 ай бұрын

Maybe you didn’t expand it after you Image Traced it?

@VOJNIKSRECE94 8 ай бұрын

@@LauraCoyle so i need to expand after trace ? Thats like step number 2 for what im asking ? And how do i expand ? In image trace window ?

@LauraCoyle 8 ай бұрын

@@VOJNIKSRECE94 Yes, expanding makes the tracing into vectors (points and paths). Before expanding, you can make adjustments to the settings. When you are ready to expand, select the tracing and click the expand button. One is on the top control bar, and another is on the properties panel (find these panels in the Window menu if they are not open). Here's a video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/brdmm9SptMXZpnU.html

@LtLost15 11 ай бұрын

I'm completely clueless when it comes to illustrator so I watched a tutorial and followed it by heart over the past year and know they did this. My trace panel stays greyed out no matter what I do. The image is selected and is an image and not a vector so I don't know what's going on.

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

When you have an image selected, the panel is greyed out until you run a tracing. Click the Trace button on the panel, or on the top control bar - after that, the sliders will be available to allow you to make adjustments to the image tracing. Image tracings can be adjusted in the panel until you expand them to vectors by clicking the expand button.

@RuthElliottHilsdon9 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, Laura! I am using Image Trace to vectorize images for Adobe ANIMATE. I still use an older version of Illustrator, and created a video explaining it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLapqZhkuLG7g6s.html and since I've discovered YOUR great explanation I put a link at the end of my video description. Thanks so much for helping students! :)

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

Hey Ruth, thanks so much!! Glad it was helpful 😁

@RuthElliottHilsdon9 11 ай бұрын

Yes! I'm glad you are helping so many students! :) @@LauraCoyle

@user-by6by9mr3u Жыл бұрын

Anyone else's Advanced tab options disappear when you click on it? So annoying! Can't seem to find a fix. Help!

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

Oh no! I'm not seeing that on my end, I'm in Ai 27.7. Have you tried resetting preferences and then restarting?

@kiillamar231 11 ай бұрын

im having the same issue!

@KarenAJS 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I thought it was just me….

@LauraCoyle 10 ай бұрын

:-) (sigh) Adobe heard our frustrations and have fixed it in the most recent version.

@Flysonfame Жыл бұрын

Absolutely hate the new Inage trace. I reverted back a few versions of Illustrator.

@LauraCoyle Жыл бұрын

I get it! Changing your settings will help, but reverting makes sense too.

@magnuskallas 11 ай бұрын

They have added all this AI nonsense, and the new Trace doesn't even recognise a circle in black and white. Definitely worse.

@laurenhamelin6329 11 ай бұрын

I am happy I found this but I wish we still had the option to ignore white. When I need to trace a PNG with a transparent background, it adds a white background and I have to manually delete it.

@LauraCoyle 10 ай бұрын

You still have that option - it's called Ignore Color now, and by default, it ignores white - so it works the same. So important, I agree!

@laurenhamelin6329 10 ай бұрын

@@LauraCoyle Ok, I think I got it but I used to be able to trace in B&W from a color logo/image. I didn't realize now I have to select trace in color. 😬

@LauraCoyle 10 ай бұрын

You don’t have to trace in color, there is an option for black and white tracing, it’s still there.

@candicelaxton7767 2 ай бұрын

I have been a long time user of Illustrator and is it just me but, since Adobe decided to add AI it seems that it is becoming harder and harder to actually do original design work. I find myself constantly fighting the software… at times it feels like it has a mind of its own. As a creative professional, I find this disturbing because the quality and creative aspect of the software seems to be going downhill in favor of the engineering team’s lack of understanding of how artists actually work.

@LauraCoyle 2 ай бұрын

I collapse the Text to Vector area of the Properties panel because it takes up so much space, the most everyday controls are pushed to the bottom. If you haven't done that, maybe that will help a bit. But I do sympathize with that feeling - AI with artists, and how it's getting more attention in favor of other things at Adobe.

@user-jg7xe1vu5z 6 ай бұрын

They havent had good tracing since CS5. I keep CS5 around just for tracing.

@LauraCoyle 6 ай бұрын

I hear you! The CS5 interface was very adjustable, but I've actually been happy with it, once I figured out my own settings... until 27.6.1 😱 I'm glad they fixed it, and for me now it's the same good results as before.

@magnuskallas 11 ай бұрын

Jebus. I was like... AGAIN they messed up. NEVER UPDATE! It only gets worse.

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

I know... I tried the public beta and it is already a lot better, it's going to work out - stay tuned!

@magnuskallas 11 ай бұрын

@@LauraCoyle I wouldn't be annoyed but all 3 "illustrator" tools I use most often have gone worse in the last year or two. Have you noticed how weird the new Simply is? It messes up at least 1 curve 99% of the time, making too sharp. The quick menu sucks too. Also I've noticed something is going on with the Blend.

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

I didn’t notice a change to simplify- I gotta check that!

@exogendesign4582 11 ай бұрын

I just lost a 2 hour of work, due to live trace and Recovery is not even possible, Illustrator 2023 is probably the most garbage version of all illustrator. I never had issue with this program, I had enough with premiere pro and now Illustrator is acting like a garbage too, what has this world become. Can somebody Please tell Adobe to stop hiring incompetent developers.

@LauraCoyle 11 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry to hear that! There's nothing worse than losing work!! I've had minor issues here and there, but overall Illustrator 2023 has been working well for me.