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- Adjusting the interface brightness
- Understanding updates to panels and preferences
- Creating a repeatable pattern
- Performing a basic trace
- Converting pixels to paths
- Understanding what 64-bit support means for you
- Introducing startup profiles
- Understanding the Save for Web changes
- Enhancing artwork with gradients on strokes
- Working with the improved Gaussian Blur
Skill Level Intermediate
The Image Trace presets can only take you so far. So it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with all of the options that the Image Trace panel has to offer in order to maximize the effectiveness of your tracing. In this movie, we'll explore the advanced options of the Image Trace and how they can help you refine your artwork. First off, we need to expand the Advanced options here inside the Image Trace panel. So look for the small area labeled Advanced, and click the tiny triangle next to it. Once you do that, it should expand out the Advanced options, and as you can see there are quite a few.
Let's start at the top and work our way down. The first option is the Paths feature, which allows you to determine the detail of your artwork. Dragging the slider to the left allows your tracing to be somewhat loose in terms of adhering to the original shapes of the bitmapped image. Whereas, dragging the slider to the right, tightens up the artwork and makes it follow the contours of the original a little more closely. This number will ultimately be up to you, but for this particular artwork, I think that 5% will work just fine.
So I'll enter in a value of 5 and press the Enter key. Once that finishes rendering, you'll notice that I still get a nice representation of the original image without a bunch of jagged paths and extra lines. In my opinion, lowering this value makes the artwork look more artistic, while increasing the value, makes it look a little bit more technical. The second option is the Corners Emphasis control. Dragging this slider to the right increases the amount of corners in your artwork.
As you can see, when I push it up to 100%, I get some jagged lines around the hairline and lot more sharp corners throughout the entire image. If I drag this to the left all the way, you'll notice that my paths really start to smooth out, especially around the hairline and around his chin as well. It really limits the amount of corners that are in my image, making things a little bit more smooth. For this particular image I think 10% is going to work nicely here. But again, this is always a personal choice, so playing around with these values each time will be beneficial to you.
Now let's move down to Noise. The Noise feature is a great way to clean up your artwork. The higher this number is, the less noise you'll have. As you can see, if I take this down to 1 pixel, the Image Trace picks up more of the smaller details of the image, whereas if I take it up to 100 pixels, most of those small details are ignored. Generally I shoot for somewhere in between. I'm not a big fan of all the little extra paths and cluttering up my artwork. But at the same time, I don't want things to just run together either.
However, for this particular poster design that I'm working on, I think 100 pixels works well and still maintain the integrity of the original image. Again, it's totally up to you, anywhere between 1 and 100, your call. Now let's jump down here to the Method. The Method option allows you to determine whether or not you create a budding, or overlapping paths. Now exactly was does that mean? Well, if you choose the budding paths, you basically get paths that are cut out and fit right along each other's edge. Think of it like this, you've taken several pieces of construction paper, cut them in individual shapes and then fit them together like a puzzle.
That's what this is. With Overlapping Paths, you create solid shapes that are stacked on top of one another in the form of the artwork. Instead of the puzzle piece, you have layers. Again, this will be up to you, but I prefer the overlap, because it eliminates any gaps or white space that might exist in my artwork. So in this case, I'll just switch it to Overlapping. The remaining options aren't necessarily deal breakers, but they are nice to have. For instance, you have the option to create either Fills or Stroke Paths. Fills are much easier to deal with in my opinion though.
If you were to choose Strokes, you'd be able to choose the maximum width in pixels that would be recognized and converted into a Stroke Path. You also have the ability to snap curves to lines. This means that Illustrator will inspect your artwork for slightly curved lines and then force those lines to become straight. In some cases if you needed straight lines this might be a good thing, but in artwork like this, not so much. Let's turn it on and as you can see I wind up with small gaps in certain areas. Like right here in the hairline, see how it converted that to a straight line? Same thing on the side of the face, the ears and all kinds of stuff.
It basically eliminates those small curves. So now these straight lines leave gaps in my artwork. I don't like gaps in my artwork. If you have white in your artwork, you can also choose to ignore it and make those areas of your artwork transparent. This is great for tracing one color logos that you might have scanned in on a piece of paper. If you have artwork like that, you simply hit Ignore White right here and it automatically ignores white and turns it into transparent section. Finally, you'll notice at the bottom of the panel that you have information about your tracing. This indicates the number of paths, the number of anchors and also the number of colors that are present in your trace.
This is a great way to track your artwork during the tracing process to see how much you've either complicated or simplified it along the way. All right, let's turn off Snap Curves to Lines. Once I do that, you'll see the artwork flows back together, all those gaps have been eliminated and I'll zoom out, and there we go. My artwork is now traced and I'm pretty happy with the results that I've gotten. The only thing left for me to do is actually convert it into paths, so that I can tweak it even further here inside of Illustrator.


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2 Parks near Dunseith, North Dakota
Shell Valley, North Dakota 9.08 miles E
Belcourt, North Dakota 14.57 miles E
Bottineau, North Dakota 17.99 miles W
Rolla, North Dakota 20.48 miles E
Boissevain, Manitoba 28.71 miles N
Dunseith, North Dakota (map) | (701) 263-4390
Sites: 40 | Latest Rate: $15.00 | 9 Reviews
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Aug 2015 - $15.00
I agree with the earlier reviews, down to the fact that it takes a bit of skill to get a 38 foot fifth wheel into site 19, with all those trees. That said, other sites were more difficult, but not impossible. We had a bit of mud, but power was good, as was the water. The dump station is very convenient. Lots of privacy (a forest of paper birch trees) and lots of serenity (no WiFi, no TV but for one Canadian station, no cable TV, no AT&T cell service, no Verizon cell service and no newspaper. The cafe, which serves nice sandwiches, has WiFi and is a short drive away. We spent five nights there, and were as happy as hermits can be. - Ray Waugh
Sep 2013 - $10.00
The CG in the Peace Garden is on the American side. It is heavily treed but no problem for big rigs. The sites are ample, private and somewhat level. If it rains, it is a little muddy. The Peace Garden is very serene and quite lovely. The conservatory houses a snack bar, gift shop and wonderful cacti garden. If you can get with a tour guide, it is worth it. There is also a Wardens Museum that is quite interesting. Other than enjoying the garden, everything else is 15 miles away north or south and you will need your passport once you leave. 30 amps and water, and an easily accessible dump station on exit. This is a remote area so unless you're going into Manitoba, I'm not sure why you would be this far north except to come to the garden. Easy, uncrowded border crossing. - Team Asphalt
Sep 2013 - $22.00
Campsites are off a large loop road which is on the USA (South) side of the overall Peace Garden. Most sites are "scalloped" drive-through, with the rest back-in. Sites were quite private, with lots of shrubs and trees. The trees were a bit of a problem getting to our site (19), but that was because we drive a 45' RV and didn't unhook our toad. It had been raining a lot and there was a fair amount of mud around our site, but it also had a small concrete slab base that we managed to get all six or our rear tires on. Water and 30 AMP electric were fine, but no sewers were available at the sites. The dump site at the exit from the campsite area was user friendly and allowed you to dump from either side of your rig, or from either direction. There was no cell or Wi-Fi reception at the site, but Wi-Fi is available at the building with the café. Cell reception is a problem in the entire area. The park is lovely and worth a visit. If you are staying in a big-rig, I advise unhooking and scoping out your site before pulling in. We enjoyed the park and would stay again. - dweymouth
Bottineau, North Dakota (map) | (701) 263-4651
Sites: 125 | Latest Rate: $20.00 | 6 Reviews
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Wonderful park with great shade and big pull through site in the reserved section. Only problems were not the park's fault: mosquitos and mud from rain. Otherwise a great place to stay and we will stay here again. - COArcticFox
Aug 2012 - $25.00
North Dakota State Parks seems to have a "thing" about making sites share water faucets. This is the third park I have encountered with this. The water faucet is located every two spaces, and it's in the front, right between the spaces. The faucet closest to me happened to have a splitter, but not all of them did. The 5th Wheel in the next spot over had enough hose to connect to the water faucet, but my 50 feet of hose was a tad bit short. I had to pull out into the driving road, block traffic, and fill up my tank. Ok, enough on the rant. Very nice park. I stayed in the loop that is "first come first serve." If you are in a big rig, I don't recommend staying in that loop. The loop for "reservations only" seemed to have longer sites, and more pull-throughs. I am in a 32 foot Class C and I had trouble finding a spot to fit. Glad I didn't have a toad. I did notice some spots in this loop that were very wide. I also noticed some "hookup" spots that were very small, maybe a Popup could fit, but nothing bigger. The spaces themselves are very private, with LOTS of vegetation between sites. However, trying to back into one was a bit tight for me. I held my breath. I got one channel over the air on batwing, it was a Canadian channel from Manitoba. Verizon Cell Phone and Verizon Cellular modem worked very well. This park also has a "primitive" camping area, but I didn't get to check that part out. In North Dakota, if you don't have the annual pass, you pay $25 for hookups. If you have the pass, it's only $20. Oh, one more minor issue. After I found a site, I had to walk a mile to the self registration, only to find there were no forms in the box. Had to flag down a ranger but got it done. I would love to give this park a 10 but the shared water faucets were just a bit inconvenient. - DXSMac
Jun 2011 - $20.00
The sites are somewhat short, thickly forested. Electric and water are nearby. Hiked on the trail, almost got lost, not well marked, and couldn't see the lake, just a few feet away for the brush. Overall good park. - Gail

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Two men, one woman, one momentous dare.
A Red Hot Winter story.
Serious and determined, Joseph Hudson isn't Australia's businessman of the year for nothing. So now he's asking himself, how did he get lost on the side of a mountain in the Colorado Rockies—in the middle of winter—with night fast approaching? Three simple words. I dare you.
Fear isn't in Rob Thorton's vocabulary. Life is for the taking, and Rob uses both hands. Challenging his best mate to take an impromptu snowboarding trip to the U.S. is just the latest in a lifetime of dares. Besides, he has an ulterior motive for the trip. And a plan…
Park Ranger Anna McCarthy knows what trouble looks like, and it's written all over the two Aussies she first encounters in the ski lodge. Instinct has her following them onto the mountain, and sure enough, they end up needing her winter survival expertise. But not even her skills can stop her body from responding to the sexy muscles she finds beneath their ski suits.Stuck in a remote cabin until the storm passes, the temperatures rise until all bets are off. And a double dare turns into a triple threat—to their hearts.
Contains lots of scorching boy on girl on boy action, a heroine who knows what she wants and two sexy-arsed Australian heroes to really work up a sweat over. Oh, and a soul-deep love story with a revelation that may make you cry.
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In The Five Love Languages, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse's primary love language-quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together.
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Le blanc Limosine South Florida limousine - currently listed as Le Blanc LIMO, and gives NO address for the current business name on the website UNAUTHORIZED CHARGE AND REFUSAL TO REFUND Marathon, Florida
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Winter brings ice and snow and slippery conditions. All too often these conditions lead to a serious slip and fall injury. Follow the tips below to learn how you can help keep yourself safe and injury free while walking in these often treacherous conditions.
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Winter Walking Safety Tips
Winter, and the snow and ice it brings to cover the roads, sidewalks and parking lots can be quite dangerous. No matter how well the snow and ice is removed from parking lots or sidewalks, you will encounter some slippery surfaces when walking outdoors in the winter. It is important for everyone to be aware of these dangers and to learn to walk safely on ice and slippery surfaces. Falls due to ice and snow are one of the most common injury causing incidents on campus.
WALK SMART by learning and implementing these suggestions:
Walk at a slower pace - use a penguin like gait in snow and ice. Spreading your feet out slightly while walking on ice increases your center of gravity.
Always stay on designated walkways - these walkways are cleared on campus, taking shortcuts over snow piles and other frozen areas can be hazardous.
Look for, and avoid, slippery surfaces - assume that all wet, dark areas on pavements are slippery and icy and approach with caution.
Know your limitations - carrying large packages or other items that limit vision can lead to slips and trips.
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