Re: FLASH: OT/what is "tracing"?

[John Croteau]

Hi Bob,


> what, please, is tracing?  I find no reference to it in Flash's help

> menu.

Tracing can be either manual or automated. It is used to convert bitmaps

to vector images.

In Flash  Modify > Trace Bitmap.

Freehand and other vector graphics programs have this feature as well.

Adobe Streamline is a program especially created for this function.

Hand tracing often is faster and does better than the automated ones

where you have to learn how to use the settings and then have to

optimize afterwards anyway. Hand tracing is accomplished by putting the

original (bitmap or vector) on one layer and redrawing the object on

another layer using the original as a temporary template. Note not all

images should be concerted to vectors.


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