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Lanz Ceniza
4,419 PointsAdobe Illustrator CS6 Experts?
Does anyone know how to make sneakers in Adobe Illustrator? How do you trace an image of an picture?
5 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsYour best results would be to do it by hand.
Maybe a little pen action, possibly some brush work. Boom, done. I'm not a fan of the trace option.
Kevin Granger
20,332 Pointspast your image in illustrator with 30% opacity, set your the path tool to only draw stroke (no fill color), then create a new layer and start drawing over your image.
Michael Trilford
7,232 PointsStep 1.
Go to "Bonus Content" » "Exercise you creative" » "How to Build Your Portfolio by Designing for Your Favorite Brand"
Step 2.
Or go look at the Illustrator foundations.
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 PointsThe best way to make that is to bring a photo in to PS of your shoe you want or something similar and lower the opacity, once your done that you would use your pen tool to trace out the outline of the shoe and keep layering it from there thats how i do my art work. as in back middle front elements (graphics) then color as you see fit with fill.
Julian McNeill
9,445 PointsI like Kevin Granger answer. Thats exactly how I do it
Lanz Ceniza
4,419 PointsLanz Ceniza
4,419 PointsHow about if I lower the opacity of the image then trace it then. will that work?
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsTruth be told, I don't know for sure. I don't use illustrator for that feature.
What you could do is bring the image into illustrator, and and that open the image trace toolbox which on a windows is in Windows >> Image Trace and just start playing around in the settings. There isn't a one size fits all settings approach.
Just curious, why do you want to bring an image of a shoe and make it a vector?