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From Sketchbook to Vector: How to Prep Hand-Drawn Art in Photoshop Before Illustrator Does the Heavy Lifting
There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from scanning a drawing you’re actually proud of, opening it in Illustrator, running Image Trace, and watching it turn into a muddy blob of grey noise. I’ve been there. The culprit, almost every time, isn’t the drawing. It’s the prep work, or the lack of it. Getting a clean vector trace out of a hand-drawn scan is less about Illustrator and more about what you do in Photoshop before you ever open Illustrator.