What is the Best way to trace to vector

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plasmacreations
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What is the Best way to trace to vector

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Good Afternoon,

I currently use adobe illstrater to trace images then export as DXF. I see everyone on here tracing pictures that look great what are the steps and or the best way to do this? Thanks for the help.
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Re: What is the Best way to trace to vector

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Many are hand traced or cleaned up. For auto tracing, I usually clean up or modify the pic with a raster editing software like PAINT.NET first.

Here's a video I made to show one way to edit files for tracing using paint.net . The programs I use after that will be different than what you're using but the same principle applies!

https://youtu.be/xEzVGRxDw88
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Re: What is the Best way to trace to vector

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Auto trace function in illustrator works great. If that doesn't get it perfectly I will just create a new layer on top of the art I am tracing and use the pen tool to trace it by hand. The pathfinder is very helpful to join shapes and add tabs.
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