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[patellio]

I recently bought my first scanner and I had some drawings that I wanted to turn to vector images. So I scanned in the images when I found that it only saved as: Bitmap, Jpeg, Tiff, Gif, Fpx, and Png. How should I get the image into Illustrator from the scanner in a vector format?

[Jaymz]

Honestly, you can't. Your best bet is to open them up in Illustrator and manually vector them

[patellio]

Thanks Jaymz...I just found out on someother website that the new Adobe Illustrator CS2 comes with some autotracer that traces images from bitmap to vector automatically or something. That will definately be easier than tracing my huge images to vector format.

[coolaid]

it traces colors. like a black sketch would be easy to use the auto tracer. but an image with multiple colours would be harder cause its got a tolerance of what to define to trace.. but.. whatever.