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Working with Pictures 171
4. Click Trace to trace your logo, photo, or other bitmapped
artwork. It's best to keep clicking this button to update your main
window after any adjustment. If you want to abort the autotracing
process, you can click the Cancel button on the progress bar.
5. (Optional) For fine-tuning your traced output, several options are
possible:
• For removing colors in traced logo output, right-click on the
palette color you want to remove.
You can add a new color or replace an existing color by leftclicking
on an empty or occupied color swatch and dragging the
Color Selector to any color on your computer screen.
Remember to click Trace to refresh the view.
• Click Adjust to access Merge, Fill, and Node tools for finetuning
your vector output.
6. When you're happy with your traced output, click Accept to add
it to the page.
All slider settings are described in full in the Help pane which
accompanies the AutoTrace studio. Also covered are procedures for
tracing grayscale and color photos.
The autotracing procedure above differs slightly when applied to grayscale or
color photos, i.e. instead of comprehensive palette control you have a photo
preview.
Using photos in autotracing is covered in the tutorial "Cutting Out
and Tracing."