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

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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[barryh]

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

[lox_the_cat]

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!

[mickjayplays]

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.

[tanahanson]

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

[TanChoonHong]

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

[victoriagreen]

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

[sss]

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.

[bonzaioo]

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!

[jodyknight]

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

[heejungkang]

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

[creativeallure]

Thant you Laura, this is very helpful!

[hcyuieh]

you are just amazing wonderful great teaching thank you mam

[stevelawson]

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).

[jimbatty]

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.

[tiffanyw]

Do you have a setting for color images

[LtLost]

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.

[VOJNIKSRECE]

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.

[MsJoiwind]

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

[bybymru]

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

[candicelaxton]

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.