Art III Prepping your designsin Illustrator

Post date: Oct 24, 2018 1:01:53 PM

Email the images of your T-shirt design to yourself.

Log into one of the Macs and open your email on Safari.

Click on your images and select “download.”

Go to Applications (Finder: Go: Applications) and select Ai Adobe Illustrator. Launch Illustrator and open a New Document.

Go to your Downloads folder (or you’ll see the artwork at the bottom right of the screen) select the artwork, and drag it into your new document.

You may have to use the DIRECT SELECTION TOOL (Top tool in Illustrator) to press and drag the corner of your artwork to make it smaller.

When the picture is a MANAGEABLE SIZE for you to look at, you’ll want to do a Live Trace.

Select the image, then select Object, Live Trace, Make.

Next, you will CONVERT the tracing to paths so that you can make changes to your artwork in Illustrator.

Choose Object, Live Trace, Expand.

You can now work with your traced art just like you would do with any other vector based artwork.

Once you have followed these steps, SAVE your artwork with your team name, and email back to my PERSONAL EMAIL.