Adobe Illustrator has a yellow square icon that says "Ai" in the middle. Click the icon on your computer to open Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator requires a subscription to Creative Cloud to download and use. You can sign up for a free trial at adobe.com or you can use Inkscape, which is a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Click New on the title page of Adobe Illustrator to create a new Illustrator project. The dimensions of the project do not matter. You can also create a new file using the following steps: Click File in the menu bar at the top. Click New. Type a name for the project next to "Name:" Click Ok. The ideal image to convert to an SVG should be a simple, flat image such as letters or a logo. The image shouldn't have more than 2 or 3 colors. Complex images, such as photographs will not easily convert to an SVG image. The image can be a JPEG, PNG, GIF, or other image formats. Use the following steps to place an image into your Illustrator project: Click File in the menu bar at the top of the page. Click Place. Select the image you want to place. Click Place. To select the image, click the icon that resembles a mouse cursor in the toolbar to the left and then click the image. The Tracing Options menu is where you can edit the options that convert an image into a vector graphic. Use the following steps to open the Tracing Options menu: Click Object. Click Live Trace. Click Tracing Options. It's on the right side of the Tracing Options menu. This allows you to see what the image will look like after it is converted to a vector graphic. Use the drop-down menu next to "Mode" to select the color mode. If you are working with an image that has one solid color, select "Black and white". If you are working with a color image, select "Color" In Color mode, you can use the box next to "Max Color" to select the maximum number of colors the image will create. Ideally, the image shouldn't have more than 2 or 3 colors. If the lines in the vector image don't match the original image exactly, you can increase the threshold. Increasing the threshold increases the number of pixels that get traced as part of the object. Click the bracket icon pointing right next to the "Threshold" box to display a slider bar. Click and drag the slider bar to the right to increase the threshold. If the edges of the image still don't quite match the original, you can try decreasing the options for "Path Fitting", "Minimum Area", and "Corner Angles." If you are working with an image that has a white background, you can click the checkbox next to "Ignore whites". This will tell Illustrator to ignore the white parts of the image and only trace the colored objects. Be aware that this will also ignore any white parts of an image that you may want to keep. If you are satisfied with how the traced preview looks, click Trace in the Tracing Options menu to finalize your settings. Use the following steps to trace the image using the option you specified in the Tracing Options menu: Click Object in the menu at the top. Click Live Trace Click Expand. If you weren't able to get Live Trace to trace the image perfectly, you can manually edit the edges using the sub-selection tool. Click the icon that resembles a white mouse cursor in the toolbar to the left. Then you can click and drag the vector points on the lines and corners to move them. You can also click and drag the bezier curves (the lines with a dot that extend from a selected vector points) to adjust the curves in between the vector points. Use the following steps to save the image as an SVG. Click File in the menu bar at the top. Click Save As. Type a name for the image next to "File Name". Use the drop-down menu next to "Save as Type" to select SVG. Click Save Click Ok.

Summary: Open Adobe Illustrator. Create a new Adobe Illustrator file. Place the image you want to convert to an SVG. Select the image. Open the Tracing Options menu. Click the checkbox next to "Preview". Select a color mode. Adjust the threshold. Click the checkbox next to "Ignore Whites" (optional). Click Trace. Trace the image. Edit the image manually (optional). Save the image as an SVG.

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Summary: Organize your cards. Take care of your cards. Consult a Beckett price guide. Determine which cards to sell.