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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Turning a pixel image into a vector image using Adobe Illustrator

If you want to use one of the Fab Lab tools to cut out a picture that is made from pixels (any jpg, png, gif, etc) you'll have to turn it into a vector file first. I'm going to use this image for the tutorial: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smiley_Face.JPG Step 1: What's a pixel? Most images that you see on a computer are made from pixels, small rectangles that are different colors. If you look really close at your...