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- | ====== QuickTrace ====== | ||
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- | The **QuickTrace** tool allows you to quickly trace graphic images such as bitmaps stored in BMP, JPEG or GIF format. | ||
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- | The main features of the **QuickTrace** tool are shown and described in the picture below. | ||
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- | As shown, you simply select a image file, choose a trace mode, make a few adjustments, | ||
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- | ===== Selecting the image file ===== | ||
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- | To select an image file, click on the Open image button. This will display a standard Windows file dialog box, where you can navigate to and select the image to trace. | ||
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- | ===== Choosing a tracing mode ===== | ||
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- | The QuickTrace tool offers three separate tracing modes: | ||
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- | - Color separation mode (best for high-quality company logos and business card graphics) | ||
- | - Highlight separation mode (best for lower-quality images and continuous-tone photographs) | ||
- | - Centerline mode (best for line-art such as hand drawn images) | ||
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- | ===== Applying Noise Reduction ===== | ||
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- | The **QuickTrace** tool has a check box that will apply a **Noise reduction** filtering. This may be handy for images that have small specks or severe JPEG compression artifacts. Just try checking and un-checking the box to see which way provides the best looking output image. | ||
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- | ===== Choosing a number of colors ===== | ||
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- | When the tracing mode is set to **Color separation**, | ||
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- | ===== Adjusting the Separation level ===== | ||
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- | When the tracing mode is set to **Highlight separation** or **Centerline**, | ||
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- | ===== Modifying the overall size, position and rotation angle ===== | ||
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- | The four buttons under the preview window allow you to control the size, position, and rotation angle of the shape. These work in exactly the same way as the [[quickshow: | ||
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- | ===== Displaying the traced image momentarily ===== | ||
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- | To display the traced image that you have created, simply click on the Show it now button. | ||
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- | ===== Saving the QuickTrace to a cue ===== | ||
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- | You can save the **QuickTrace** to a cue for more permanent storage or for use later. Simply drag and drop the preview window (or the **QuickTrace** tab itself) to a cue. Everything about the **QuickTrace** will be saved into the cue, including the size, position, rotation, speed, color and font as seen in the preview window. | ||
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- | ===== Editing the image after it has been traced ===== | ||
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- | Once you drag and drop the traced image to a cue, you can use the [[quickshow: | ||
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- | See Also | ||
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