Image Trace Took a Step Back in 2026 Version
I was using some Ai 2024 version for years and was so impressed by the High-Fidelity Photo setting. I would use it for photos, rather for scanned drawings or raster images from Procreate on the iPad. I could finally, actually, have Image Trace essentially deliver me my analog drawings. Yes, a lot of anchor points and program crashes...which is why I finally updated my version. Fewer crashes now...But when I use High-Fidelity Photo on Image Trace...it sucks now. To put it simply. It makes the lines craggly and is not true to the original by a long shot. Messing with the settings doesn't help. I'm very frustrated because I finally loved this tool. Now it's taken a step back. I request that this be taken back to the 2024 version. It used to work well then. Now it doesn't. I don't know what other design fields use Image Trace, but a whole fleet of repeat surface pattern designers, including me, rely on it. It's the way we can keep using this vector program that we love...instead of switching to a raster program.
Lauren Ruiz
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