Illustrator

Use a tracing preset

Tracing presets provide pre-specified tracing options for specific types of artwork. For example, if you’re tracing an image that you plan to use as a technical drawing, choose the Technical Drawing preset. All the tracing options change for optimal tracing of a technical drawing: color is set to black and white, blur is set to 0 px, stroke width is limited to 3 px, and so on.

Specify a preset

  • Choose Object > Live Trace > Tracing Options. (Alternatively, select a tracing object, and click the Tracing Options Dialog button  in the Control panel.) Set tracing options for the preset, and click Save Preset. Enter a name for the preset, and click OK.
  • Choose Edit > Tracing Presets. Click New, set tracing options for the preset, and click Done.
    To base a new preset on an existing preset, select the preset, and click New.

Edit or delete a preset

  1. Choose Edit > Tracing Presets.
  2. select the preset, and click Edit or Delete.
    Note: You can’t edit or delete the default presets (default presets appear in brackets [ ]). However, you can make an editable copy of a default preset by selecting the preset and clicking New.

Share presets with other users

  1. Choose Edit > Tracing Presets.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • Click Export to save your presets to a file.

    • Click Import to load presets from a file.