One way to be cool and popular is to join a sports team, if you are so inclined. Of course, if you have two left feet and completely hate sports, then there's no need to torture yourself. But if you're interested in sports or have been pretty good at baseball, soccer, or tennis in the past, then joining a sports team can help you make new connections, gain leadership abilities, and work well with others. All of these skills will help you become more cool and popular. Joining a sports team will also let you meet a lot of cool people who you might not get to meet in your classes. It'll help you expand your social network, and people who are truly cool and popular have a wide social circle. Another way to expand your social network and to be cool and popular is to meet people through clubs. You can join the Student Council, the school paper, the school yearbook, or a variety of other clubs that let you explore your interests. You'll get to meet a variety of new people and will be able to bond over a shared interest. Talking about something you actually love? Now that's definitely cool. You may also meet a different type of person in some of your clubs than you would while being part of a sports team. Being friends with a variety of people helps you learn how to talk to almost anyone and can help you become more well-known. You may not think there's anything cool about getting involved in a tutoring program at your local library or volunteering at a soup kitchen every other Sunday. However, being active in your community, whether you're campaigning for a local politician whose cause you believe in or you're cleaning up a local park, will help you get to know a variety of people of a variety of different ages. You'll be building your character while learning to interact with a wider swath of people and that is definitely cool. If you're involved in your community, you may even gain experience talking to older people, which is a valuable skill that can help you become more mature and knowledgeable. These people may have a thing or two to teach you about what it really means to be cool. If you want to be cool and popular, then you should try to expand your area of interests. While it's great to be the football captain, you would be exposing yourself to a lot of similarly-minded people if you follow that route. If you really want to be cool and popular, then you can join the football team, but also make time for yearbook or volunteering. Of course, you don't want to put too much on your plate, but you also don't want to spend your life only associating with one type of person, either. Maintaining a variety of interests can help you meet a number of interesting people. Once you befriend them, you should also work on expanding your social circle and hanging out with those people at non-club or sports related activities. Joining a club, a sports team, or a community network can also help you find your talents and develop them. Having a talent is very cool indeed.
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One-sentence summary -- Join a sports team. Join a club. Get involved in your community. Maintain a variety of interests.

Adobe Illustrator is a professional image creation program, and is the easiest way to create vector images from JPG files. If you don't have access to Illustrator, see the next section for instructions on using the free GIMP and Inkscape utilities. You can do this by clicking the menu in the upper-right corner and selecting "Tracing." You'll see the "Image Trace" panel appear. You can do this from the File menu or by dragging and dropping the file. The tracing options in the Image Trace panel will become active. This will allow you to see what the different settings will do before applying them, but it will increase the time between making changes. There are five preset buttons along the top of the panel, and more presets available in the drop-down menu. The top row of buttons include the following presets: Auto Color - Creates a stylized set of colors based on the original colors. High Color - Attempts to recreate all of the original colors. Low Color - Creates a simplified version of the original colors. Grayscale - Replaces colors with shades of gray. Black and White - Reduces colors to black and white. Images converted to vectors don't usually show well with all of their natural colors, so you'll get a better result by reducing the number of colors used. This will lead to a "flatter" look for the image. This will reveal more detailed controls for the trace. Moving the slider to the left makes the paths looser, while sliding it to the right makes the paths tighter. A looser path will lead to smoother edges. Moving the slider to the left will make the corners rounder, which will lead to a smoother image. The Noise slider determines what groupings of pixels are considered "noise" and not included in the trace. This can help straighten lines and smooth out rough spots. Illustrator will then perform the tracing action, which may take a few moments to complete. This will convert your tracing object into actual vector paths, and will replace your JPG image with the vector. Once you're finished with the tracing, you can export the finished image as a vector file. Click the File or Illustrator menu and select "Save As." Save a copy as an .ai file. This will let you easily re-open the file in Illustrator and make more edits. Select a vector format from the "Save As Type" menu. These include SVG (webpage) and PDF (print). Do not save the file as PNG or JPG, as these are not vector formats.
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Open Adobe Illustrator. Switch to the "Tracing" workspace. Add the JPG image that you want to convert to your artboard. Select the image on your artboard. Check the "Preview" box in the Image Trace panel. Try one of the presets in the Image Trace panel. Use the color slider to adjust color complexity. Expand the "Advanced" section of the Image Trace panel. Use the "Paths" slider to adjust how close the path follows the pixels. Use the "Corners" slider to adjust how rounded your corners will be. Use the "Noise" slider to reduce bleeds. Click "Trace" when you're satisfied. Click the "Expand" button. Export the image as a vector file.