In this series, I’ll be sharing basic overviews of some useful tools in Illustrator with you. This article will show you how to use Illustrator’s Live Trace tool. Live Trace will allow you to completely convert photographs and other raster graphics into Vector graphics!

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a vector silhouette from a photo using Photoshop plus Illustrator's Live Trace tool. Knowledge of Photoshop channels will help you work through the steps, but is not required.

Instead, you can create a bunch of objects easily using the Art Brush. For this example, I'm going to make a bunch of mice. Draw a mouse with the Paintbrush tool or use Live Trace.

Use the same image as a foundation for both a background created using Live Trace and a handtraced foreground.

In this tutorial, I will discuss using Live Trace to turn a scanned "brush stroke" into vector, Expanding the Live Trace object to make it usable in the process of creating a Brush, options involved in designing an Art Brush, applying an Art Brush to a path, and adding finishing touches.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to use the wonderful tool that Live Trace is.