How To Automatically Trace An Image In Illustrator
. Adobe Illustrator doesnt have a simple built-in tool for adding hyperlinks but there are a couple of workarounds that will get the job done. Select the Draw Bezier tool and begin clicking along the edges you want to trace.
Its called Image Trace and it comes with a range of presets that do most of the work automatically. Hit Trace this happens automatically if youre enabled Preview and your drawing will instantly be traced as a vector image. You can adjust the dimensions of this cropping box if needed.
This will expand your traced image into vector objects.
Broadly speaking you should use the Image Trace preset that most closely resembles the type of image youre converting as each one produces different results. In order to understand why it isnt letting you do this right off the bat you should understand the philosophy behind Illustrators intended use which is that instead of modifying an image like you would a raster-based pixel graphic in Photoshop or GIMP Illustrator is. Only on Windows 64-bit and macOS When you select the Crop Image option to crop an image on the artboard Illustrator identifies the visually significant portions of the selected imageA default cropping box is then displayed based on this identified portion of the image. Broadly speaking you should use the Image Trace preset that most closely resembles the type of image youre converting as each one produces different results.
