Photo-based avatars that look like paintings or illustrations are very classy and tend to be rare because few people possess the skills to make them without hours of work. But by following the simple ...

Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace feature is a phenomenal way to transform a raster image into a vector image—or to put it more plainly—to turn a photograph into a drawing. Placing a raster image into ...

You can use Adobe Illustrator to create vector paths from bitmapped and rasterized images made of pixels that lose clarity when enlarged. These pixelated formats ...