NEED HELP! Image trace in AI

[Jules]

So you want to cut out around the black lettering?

Okay for that, your best bet is going to be using the AI (Live Trace) auto-trace function to turn it into a vector. There are a couple tutorials for how to use it here:

Adobe Illustrator - Auto-Trace

AI_autotrace.pdf (550.7 KB) Tutorial by @cynd11

Tutorial: How to create vector cuts from ordinary B&W graphics using illustrator

Say you’ve got a black and white JPG or GIF that you want to cut out on your glowforge. Have you got Illustrator? This tutorial shows you how to convert that B&W image into a vector “strokes” suitable for cutting. [How to convert black and white images for laser cutting] Note: @tony.sausageking points out that if you check the ‘ignore white’ checkbox in the Image Trace dialog, you can skip all the steps having to do with removing the white. That said, learning the “Select same fill…

The two things to remember when you do it are:

1. Make sure that Ignore White is checked. (If you don’t ignore white areas during the trace, it makes a lot of extra parts that have to be deleted.)
2. After you have Expanded the Trace results, set the fill color to null, (no Fill), and set a stroke color to some uniform color.