Of course! Adobe giveth and Adobe taketh away. The original live trace tool probably used more resources to create a legitimate "live trace" and the new tool is garbage because they value engineered it to use less "horsepower." Not cool. The same goes for Photoshop. the "Refine Edge" tool was AMAZING and then Adobe removed it and replaced with with "Select and Mask" which was garbage as well. HOWEVER, when I was 15 pages deep into a thread, someone mentioned that if you held down the SHIFT key when clicking "Select and Mask" it would MAGICALLY open the old "Refine Edge" tool (Zelda secret treasure music plays in the background), which it did and my workflow is back to normal now because of it. None of this makes sense and only continues to make our jobs harder when they dumb down their already good tools.
Of course! Adobe giveth and Adobe taketh away. The original live trace tool probably used more resources to create a legitimate "live trace" and the new tool is garbage because they value engineered it to use less "horsepower." Not cool. The same goes for Photoshop. the "Refine Edge" tool was AMAZING and then Adobe removed it and replaced with with "Select and Mask" which was garbage as well. HOWEVER, when I was 15 pages deep into a thread, someone mentioned that if you held down the SHIFT key when clicking "Select and Mask" it would MAGICALLY open the old "Refine Edge" tool (Zelda secret treasure music plays in the background), which it did and my workflow is back to normal now because of it. None of this makes sense and only continues to make our jobs harder when they dumb down their already good tools.