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Adobe Illustrator's Image Trace feature helps to convert raster images to high-quality vector graphics quickly and accurately. Vector images can be scaled up to any size without any quality loss due to their construction that includes mathematical paths. On the other hand, raster images are made of pixels which makes images blurred, especially the edges, when scaled up. That’s the prime reason businesses prefer vector images over raster ones. In this post, we will discuss how to convert raster images to vector graphics with the help of the Image Trace tool. Step 1 Open the input image in Adobe Illustrator Step 2 Select the Image Trace option in the Windows tab. You will see the Image Trace Panel opening. Step 3 View your live image in vector format with the Preview box. At this stage, the vector version may look unseemly but you don’t need to worry. We will work on...

A logo is one of the most important branding investments a business can make. It described as the face of a company. Quite often, it’s the first thing that a potential customer will notice about your business. A logo is much more than just a picture; it is a point of recognition for clients and an important foundation for the branding of your company, a well-designed logo is enough to convey potential customers that your business is trustworthy professional, and provides quality goods or services. It is the critical component of your brand because it describes your business symbolically. Your logo is a crucial tool for your brand representation wherever you go. Many things depend on the well-designed logo, from that you can reach the buying public and communicate to them the worth of your company or product. It has become customary to put on one’s logo on everything which can...

Have a look at the above image. It's a stock image and in this tutorial, we will learn how to create a vector avatar from such photos. So, let's start- 1st Step First, crop the image in Adobe Photoshop and take it to a new document. It's better to place it on a new layer and add yet another layer on the top where vector shapes can be added.   2nd Step Now, use the Eclipse Tool and draw an oval shape around the face. The shape doesn't need to be precise or accurate. Then select the shape and go to Object > Path > Add Anchor Points. This way, you can add as many anchor points as you want. Make the path outline the face precisely with the help of the Direct Selection Tool.   3rd Step Now You need to repeat the same process for ears.   4th...

Documents in a digital form offer a number of benefits over the traditional paper documents. Digital documents don't use massive physical space for storage and enable you to use the space available to you in an efficient manner. In fact, the absence of paper documents makes your workplace look spacious. The second benefit offered by digital documents is the convenience to find any specific piece of information quickly whenever required. It doesn't compel you to go through a heap of documents which is almost like looking for a needle in a haystack. Moreover, digitization of documents is cheaper than keeping them in the physical paper form. Also, the way mankind is facing serious ecological challenges, avoiding the use of paper documents can be great. Now when it's quite clear why we should go for digitization of documents, we need to know about the ways of digitization, i.e various processes of converting...

So, you need a digital vector file of a logo but what you have is a printed logo. You can convert it to a CDR file. In case you have already faced this situation, you may know that manual vectorization takes very long time. Taking physical images and converting them to digital vector format is something that requires several hours and the expertise to use vectorization tools. CorelDRAW Graphic Suite is a powerful tool to perform this work easily and shortly. In this tutorial, we will learn to convert pixels to shapes. i.e. raster graphics to vector images. This tutorial is prepared for CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X7 and higher versions.   Image Source An Overview of Vectorization through PowerTRACE In case you are tracing an image for the very first time, it's good to have some information for achieving good results. When you have selected a bitmap based image in CorelDRAW,...