Mastering Image Tracing with Adobe Illustrator: From Basics to Creative Projects is your step-by-step guide to unlocking one of Illustrator’s most versatile tools—Image Trace. The course begins with an introduction to the essentials of vector graphics and the benefits of using Image Trace for creative and professional projects. You’ll start with a simple beginner project, tracing a banana image, to get comfortable with the tool’s interface and workflow. This hands-on approach ensures you can quickly move from theory to practice.

Once you’ve mastered the basics, you will explore Illustrator’s advanced image tracing options, learning how to adjust settings for precision, customize vector paths, and create unique artistic effects. The course also dives deep into recoloring techniques, showing you both basic and creative ways to enhance your vector artwork with custom palettes, gradients, and harmonious color combinations.

Building on these skills, you will discover how to use clipping masks to integrate images into creative layouts, including designing a custom poster. You’ll then expand your expertise with additional clipping mask techniques and a wildlife photo mask project, giving you the confidence to apply these tools in a variety of design contexts. By the end of the course, you will have a complete understanding of how to trace, recolor, and creatively transform images in Illustrator, enabling you to produce professional-grade illustrations for branding, marketing, and artistic projects.