Adobe Illustrator Tutorial! LIVE TRACE! Vectorize photos!

[phonesplanet]

the audio was bad..

[TarynSpence]

Great job, thanks man!

[TheMURDER199]

i cant hear you

[matatmat]

every time he says "path" you must take a sip.....

[hahaderekface]

@matatmat 9 minutes in... i can't feel my face anymore...

[Lifetakerko]

my hearing aids are broken again? fk!

[pravindabir]

come to point..waste of talking time

[Mrmtjones]

so much dumb talking. stfu

[noamgoldberg111]

wasting my time with all the talking, do that at the end

[InOderAusMan]

god sketch damn sketch dude sketch, could sketch you sketch make sketch this sketch video sketch any sketch longer?

[TheNewbie27]

cant hear much T_X

[jakooe]

WHAT!

I CANT HEAR YOU

SPEAK UP SUNNY

[mudkipz1111]

Talk lower, man, it's too loud.

[RejectedManiac]

Wow! you sure did a lot of nothing in 20 minutes!

[maui0613]

this video sucks! suck your dick and use it as a mic!

[XKLUSIF]

soooooo painful to watch.. please, just get to the point!

[iLoveBearGaming]

It's not too long.. It's called being Thorough. Did you come to learn? or have instant gratification?

[asiddragon]

tutorial waaaay tooooo long to watch just to learn live trace, wasting too much time. laters

[lineriderofdeath]

Wow, only losers with built-in speakers can't hear this video

[Beeoldarm]

thank you! been looking for this for like 2 hours

[Haden841]

This was pretty helpful, but you need to speak up!!

[pirokitsune]

I think this would be really helpful. But the voice is so low its almost a waist of 20 minutes.

Can you pump up the volume and re upload this?

[olmitan8819]

u talk way too much

[tsunami30003000]

haha god d*mn you kinda sound like George W Bush...

[OneCoolDude08]

I had to plug in 1000 watt speakers, and crank the volume all the way up just to hear it.

[italyanoQ8]

it's better than PS ! anybody tell me

[enriquesoyyo]

@italyanoQ8 I don't really know what you are asking but if you want to know if illustrator is better than photoshop, they are different and can complete each other. Learn Photoshop if you want to create cool photo effects. Learn illustrator for logos and specially if you want to print your artwork. Learn both and have fun!

[italyanoQ8]

@enriquesoyyo lol thanx m8

[genaroperez3]

Thanks, very helpful!

[loraljohnson]

Every time he says "sketch" you must take a shot.....

[gesym4]

@loraljohnson NO CHANGE IT TO TRACE AND SKETCH.....YOU WILL BE DEAD BEFORE 3 MINS IS UP...

[giesbier]

awsome!



[TylerRBack]

"kinda sketchy" XD

[Greatrapper4life]

very helpful thanks

[praetorian18]

THIS ROCKS!

[ASlave2Gravity]

Cheers man :D

[ROORWANT]

good stuff.

[srmoogle]

People sure are very ungrateful...

[padraic7]

You talk an awful lot... But goddamn its all helpful!

[Overchecking]

all talk!

[PoiesisPR]

i cant hear you gahh

[ALMWebDesigns]

Sound quality is much better on the website. I feel like I just stumbled upon an insider secret! Thank you for making my job a LOT easier:o)

[ALMWebDesigns]

Sound quality is much better on the website. I feel like I just stumbled upon an insider secret! Thank you for making my job a LOT easier:o)

[srmoogle]

The guy teaches how to use a awesome tool and all people can do is complain about the volume? gimme a break...

[cgnauta]

Yeah buy a new michophone

[alienfeedme]

all of your tutorials are so great!

[MrNotthesame]

good tutorial, but can ya cut down on the rambling?

[ReddoJyuusan]

Wow, this just saved me a lot of pain. lol Thanks for the tutorial!

[oscar2oo9]

cant hear you!!!!!!!!

[DiverseLA]

I had to turn my speakers up and the sound on YouTube all the way up to hear him at a normal level.

[MrJesus38]

esta muy bueno el video miren los mios

[regrettedme]

i have no problem hearing it. (:

[barneycoles]

the sad thing is this guy is really good at adobe illustrator the problem is, NOBODY CAN HEAR A FUCKING THING!!!!

[trastulo]

or normalize the audio of the video

[krupple]

It's quiet, I have the volume all the way up and I can barely here it.

[crashbug]

i really enjoyed this tutorial. thanks for doing what you do...

[horsechik]

in the tracing options window, the preview button is there, but i can't click it...

[ImmaReportYoAssNigga]

Get better speakers...

[splitjo]

excellent...luv all your vids, they teach you lots of useful things...keep up the good work!!

[AcademyArtVenture]

Nice tutorial!

You're like a SURPLUS of information to the design technology class I'm taking right now - we're learning to trace and vectorize photos, it's fun stuff!

Love the vid!! thanks!! 5 stars!

[Eidrog511]

I can barely hear you. My monitors volume is set to 100 too.

[spljicna]

buy a new microphone!

[washaway]

yay for skull kandy headphones to fix audio volume

[misssilvya]

Now .. some other serious things ... I have downloaded the images, but my embedding button is grey instead of black, inactive .. it doesn't let me embed my image. Can anybody tell me why is that happening, please? I use CS3.

[misssilvya]

You f*** retards!!!! If you are not happy with the tutorial go and spend some money for private lessons or buy tonnes of books and see if they help you more!!!! You all whom dislike this video you are free to PRESS THE X BUTTON AND F**** yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pipster06]

Great Tutorial! i agree its very hard to hear, everything is all the way up on my laptop and my headphones are on! your voice reminds me of Chris Crocker.

[maxisvids]

Thanks for the tut. But can you record the speech a bit louder if possible please. I can't here a much at all when I play these on my I phone.

[SoSoDeap]

I like this guys tutorials, hes good. But he needs to turn his volume UP a little.:)

[megasleezoid]

one star rating from me... audio is an important component of any successful tutorial. TURN UP THE VOLUME DUDE.

[Idoitforthelulz]

i typed in advanced vector tutorial and this is something that i got.

advanced vector tutorial

advanced

[macfb6]

I have volume up to 100% but I can't hear fucking anything!

Speak up you god damn pussy!

[keter1234]

Sounds fine to me.. get some new speakers.

[BioIII]

Oh come on ppl this is not for beginner tutorial dont u get it? and this is not meat to teach a pro anything lmao if u are a pro why the hell there is a tutorial for life trace? It's a good tutorial video, work your brain before u post comment.

[silentpro105]

I thought it was pretty damn good & informative & I can't even pick up lunch for a Illustrator guru. Maybe those who don't get it, aren't understanding the language he uses. If you don't understand regular words like "compound", then yeah, I can see where some might get confused.

[tanzone]

ive lost 20 minutes watching a failed tuttorial. thanx a lot dude

[powertotheReaper]

Helpful if you have ANY background in Adobe. I had no knowledge in Illustrator and saw this, it helped a lot.

[beamangraphic]

I will say this. He might forget that us newbies are watching sometimes, and forget to slow down and teach, but atleat he has a pair, and will try, vs. plaing some idiotic music and speed up the video so fast that you cant see what is going on. Most of the videos on here are just that.... CRAP!

[Ladybluewings01]

wow this guys sounds EXACTLY like my Anatomy drawing teacher last semester.

[joethug1234]

this was horrible. this guy talks as if we are already illustrator pros. I wouldnt be watching a tutorial if I already knew how to do this. He goes off on tangents and never really teaches anything. tutorials should be made assuming the watcher is a novice. too much jargon is used. I did not learn anything about live trace apart from how to open the file.

[luigidesigns]

Dude, if you wanted "Illustrator 101 for dummies" you are watching the wrong video. This explains LIVE TRACE, as said in the title. The assumption is that you know the basics of illustrator.

And if after this video you are not able to live trace a photo, well, then you are just plain retarded.

[barrywhw]

Do I have to download the Live Trace files or are they already there?

[eyetheskies]

I got past the audio by holding a speaker right by my ear. Good no?

[blueandgrey88]

if you go to the website in the info the volume is a lot better there

[chana1mp]

sir, THANKS this save from 4 more ours drawing hahahaha I love you!

[chikotube]

normalize audio levels before rendering the video out.

[wWdirtysanchezMm]

So it sketches the sketch that you previously sketched to be shown as a sketch but it ends up looking as a sketch?

Should've just called it a birdie. -.-

[inkpimp007]

Pointless tutorial if you can't hear a word being said free or not.

[cspace1234nz]

I can hear it perfectly.

Pointless watching these videos if you don't turn the volume up !

[spooksmagee]

Volume adjust, use it

[eyetheskies]

do as i did: hold the speaker by your damn ear. :-P :-)

[NuinkD]

live trace interesting

thanks

[ffleming]

fix your sound levels, dude

[hibikino]

You could have saved at least 5-10 minutes if you weren't bullshitting about random shit. If this is a tutorial, get to the fucking point.

[DullahanVII]

he provides great tutorials for free so shut the fuck up

[JvampDude]

WHAAAAAAAT? Speack up son!!

[playerslayer8831]

if u r trying to go somewhere with illustrator plz plz plz dont use live trace it is the easy way out as u can tell. he is right it is a cool feature but.... just dont b lazy and make ur own art

[davin3]

so if i draw something on paper, scan it then trace it with live trace im cheating am i?

[izihbo]

No definately not mate, lots of professional designers work exactly that way, you cannot consider it cheating - its your own work regardless...

[russellnz06]

god this guy talks some shit

[westsan]

Trying to figure this out in CS3 Japanese

[airmiami]

So is there no trace option in CS1 ?

[dnacho]

put headphones on .. i'm following on just fine ... with sound !

[luisdrum]

no sound

[loraaah]

no brain, luisdrum?

[i3l1nd]

i cant hear a word your saying on my laptop with volume at 100% in explorer and on youtube..

[seltblade]

i cant hear anything

[paintballguy113]

He should be sponsored by Adobe, so his vids could be on their site.

[CelticReject]

When I alter the Threshold nothing changes (and I do have 'Preview' selected!!!) Urgent help needed. Please, please, please!

[alucardaj]

i wasnt talkin to you O_o that was to papiacanne

[paintdataint]

TUTVID FTW!

[mysterious7citizen]

DUDE!!! Thank you so much. I don't understand why there can't be more tutorial peeps like you. I searched all over google for like days then gave up. Now about a month or so later, I tried to look again, and saw your video on google. NOW I CAN MAKE VECTOR GRAPHICS. Of course, by now I'm using CS4, but oh well, it still works! thanks again man.

[PoptartPaintball333]

Very informative, thank you much Nathan!

[papiacanne]

SPEAK LOUDER FOR CHRISTS SHAKE

[alucardaj]

just put headphones in your computer, problem solved......not so hard to do

[dubfoundry]

why is he whispering

[Ty0ma]

Shh his parents are sleeping!

[moldbot]

@Ty0ma  :)))))))))))))))))))

[ITSWTFBOOMTIME]

This will be very useful for the manga I'm writing! :D Thanks for this video!

[inmeral]

Only retards can't hear him.

[trancein305]

PLEASE do it in HD the volume is way to low i cant hear.

[midinerd]

DUUUDE STFU

[DaylightGlass]

what was the download site???

[000skin999]

I cant hear it!!!!!!!!!

[marmadooke]

can't hear you either

[michelle21689]

me niether :( i turned up all the volumes

[TrapperXP]

I think it is done on purpose so you go and buy the HD version...

[aoi37]

Thanks for the explanations!!

[DJkebu]

i dont get u guys, i can hear hes voice well with or without a mic.. :S

[skumar8]

just got a tablet PC and illustrator (with wacom digitizer) how can i start sketching with pressure sensitivity ~ that's all i need, the vector drawing in illustrator is doing nothing more than pissing me off...doodling in MS onenote is proving more fruitful for me. any suggestions? any help would be much appreciated... im a total adobe noob :/

[CassiusPlaymore]

I am going through the same thing let me know if your figure out how to start sketching..

[mittROMNEY666]

use photoshop?

[mezzer94]

you talk to much

[downhillchris]

turn the mic up. cant hear what your saying

[frezer21]

thanks you god bless you

[royalconcrete1]

I have listened now 4 times to this video and it is packed Full of info and I thank you again for taking the time to make it. It looks like I will have to watch it 40 times to digest all the info you have on this.

[royalconcrete1]

I like this video. As for someone who knows nothing about Illustrator. He was great and very helpful showing all the options,,,into my favorites..good sound too. Thank you very much!...And with your video my picture looks sooo cool...like a cartoon!!! thanks!

[fallyhag]

Useful. Thanks.

[ffrost3]

do it again with a mic...sorry buddy

[iDippy]

He did use a mic.

[h0merg0mez]

Too much worthless chatter & not enough volume.

[kloranfm]

Its called a microphone, use it

[iDippy]

He is using it. Somehow his volume got messed up.

[popduds]

is your microphone in another room?

[06lellis]

hey man great tutorial really worked!!, i shall be using this all the time,

could you plz tell me what software u are using to capture this video ?? it would really help me out so if there's any chance of you telling me could you respond.

[leaveblank]

man this is crap! live trace is NOT for that, its a VERY helpul tool, but will NOT do 100% your job, you'll need B/W images , and at high res, you need to do a couple of "tricks" in PShp, then with Illy, also there are plugins WAY better than "live trace" from illy, I use adobe from v.7 and really the illy history ends with ai.10 , the next ones are crap.

[hihaatje]

lol not only B/W... u van also use color u just have to select the other option|-)

[leaveblank]

heh I know that :)

[9ish]

really good voice, just too quiet.

good movie

[striatu24k]

shit on your low sound volume

[pimiidesii]

Hello, I'm trying to vectorize a sketch, but the lines should be as clean and sharp as possible. but when i do this with the live trace method, i come up with pretty, let's say rough lines. is there any way for me to get this result with the Live Trace method ?

Please PM me or reply to this cause i need to know how to do this as quick as possible!

thanks in advance! (this might be a repost but i didn't see it so i posted it again)

[trova19]

I cannot believe that Adobe put this in illustrator CS2, when Corel Draw (that every body discriminates) has had this tool since 1998.

[naseralnowais]

Normally it is, since Corel Draw are harder to get than Adobe products. Unless if you ain't caring for the bucks that you gonna spend for it.

[andyqban831]

guacamole, lol I feel you on that! I literaly fell asleep watching this! lol

[RottedDollBaby]

rofl jeez

[theinstantramen]

puns ftw!

[GuacamoleKun]

I left this to load and forgot about it, and I kept thinking I was hearing my neighbors talking quietly through the wall, but in fact, this had been playing at max volume for 5 minutes.

But I guess you've heard enough of that, LOL.

The bigger problem is.. you kind of ramble. Like, I have teachers that do this and those are the classes I fail.

[RottedDollBaby]

lmao

[o00Lizz00o]

nice tut :)

[LambSeed]

Volume is absolutely terriable, is anyone having the same problem? Headphones fixes it(kinda).

[VickieNoelle]

I could hear u a little with the volume high up...unfortunately i couldnt stand the sound of your voice and you were just blabbing so i am leaving now

[leitermann]

audio's too low, i can't hear it :(

[prodicallive]

i haven't got the live trace button on my toolbar where can i find it?

[prodicallive]

okay where is the race button , im new to this programme . can some1 help me plz?

[freedoomuser1985]

good job.

[phillykrewkilla]

Nice. I watched this and didn't see anything worth while?

[SanPedro22]

can't hear a DAMN thing -- even with volume up HIGH.

Only a retarded person would let this mistake happen.

[Frozensmokeprod]

Check your computer, no one else is having this problem.

[4567chris]

Volume is quiet but not as bad as that..

[KGSProductions]

Where is the live trace button?

[jigglejel]

you select it first then in the toolbar theres live trace

[steviemac63]

A rough sketch of the sketch? - a sketchy sketch? There are other words like drawing, illustration or 'the origional artwork' you could use but you're loving the word sketch - quite funny really.

Not the worst tutorial i've heard though. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[rhodghier]

A good tutorial, but the audio is lame. i think you should pump it up a little bit.

Well thank you for that tutorial it really helps!

[OffRoadNorthEast]

cant hear you at all

[hihaatje]

i think you should pump the volume a bit;) cant hear on full everything...