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Trace setting in Illustrator, what works best

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would anyone please share their custom trace setting that might help me trace lower resolution images.

I play around with setting but usually end up with a very jagged trace and about a million nodes.

 

thanks,

 

jason

 

 

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Jason,

I Played with it in Illustrator and yes, the best I could come up with in colors was kinda wonky.

I switched up and traced it as black and white with slightly better results...

the settings I used (in CS3) are as follows;

threshold 62, path fitting  1.5px,   min area 5px,   corner angle 20.

these settings produced 44 paths with 311 anchors.

 

At this point I should disclose that I rarely use Illustrator for tracing so others may have better results.

 

I am much more proficient with Inkscape and the file yielded very good results with both color and b&w outputs.

 

The above applies to the Navy Chief graphic request you posted  here

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