Alternatively, you can call up the Tracing Options dialog to take control over advanced settings such as path fitting and minimum area, then preview the effect as you make changes. Using the Control palette drop-down, you can select from 13 presets ranging from Comic Art through to High Fidelity Photo, Technical Drawing and Hand Drawn Sketch. Since the link to the original bitmap is maintained, the tracing is ‘live’, which means that if you resize or externally edit the source, or change settings, it will automatically update. Place a bitmap, hit the new Live Trace command, and a few seconds later the entire bitmap image is replaced by an astonishingly high-quality vector equivalent. Whereas Illustrator previously offered a basic AutoTrace tool for creating a single shape at a time, it has now fully integrated the powerful raster-to-vector conversion power of its standalone Streamline application. In terms of new power, Adobe is making much of two innovations, the first of which is its Live Trace capability. It’s even possible to work with all other palettes hidden.
Adobe says that the Control palette offers direct access to 80 per cent of Illustrator CS2’s power, and that feels about right. Even better, you can click on the names of many of the Control palette parameters and the relevant palette opens up immediately below offering finer control.
Now, you can simply work your way along the Control palette setting fill and stroke colour, outline width, brush style, opacity, graphic style, position and size. Previously, just the basic setting up of an object involved multiple trips to a whole host of palettes – Colour, Swatches, Stroke, Transparency and so on. It’s difficult to overstate what a difference this makes.
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