A faint outline of a truck appears in your document. Select the Template check box at the bottom of the Place dialog box to import the selected artwork as a template layer. In the Place dialog box, navigate to the ai03lessons folder and select the ai0502.tif file. When the Illustrator Options dialog box appears, click OK.ģ Choose File > Place. Make sure that you are in the ai03lessons folder, and keep the type Adobe Illustrator. Choose Letter from the Size drop-down menu, if it is not already selected. Choose Print from the Profile drop-down menu. In the New Document dialog box, type ai0502_work into the File name text field. Placing an image as a templateġ Create a new Illustrator document by choosing File > New. In the second part of the exercise, you will learn how to use the Image Trace feature, equipped with built-in presets and custom settings, to convert a bitmap image into a vector graphic. In the first part of the exercise, you will place a scanned image as a template and retrace it using the skills you just learned with the Pen tool. You can manually trace them using template layers and drawing tools or you can use the Image Trace feature, discussed in further detail later in this section, that automatically converts a bitmap image into a vector graphic. There are two ways to trace images in Illustrator CC. Illustrator is often used to convert artwork that has been scanned or rendered in a pixel-based painting program, like Adobe Photoshop, into crisp vector line art.

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