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STOPPEE
Janet Stoppee
As a graphic designer and master gardener Janet Stoppee combined her
two favorite activities to create a seed packet for a Flowering Maple. She
used a photo of a maple she had grown herself from seed as the basis for
her illustration. Experience has shown her that prepping a photo before
tracing it helps produce the desired results.
In Illustrator, choosing a palette to use in Image Trace both simplifies and
colorizes a photo, but Stoppee has traditionally simplified first with a favorite
third-party filter (Topaz Simplify) in Photoshop. In this case, she chose the
preset Painting Harsh-Color to intensify the natural colors. In Illustrator, she
opened the file, selected it, and opened the Image Trace panel. There she
enabled Preview and experimented with the different presets. Stoppee
chose Accurate Fidelity with the default settings. After tracing her image,
she expanded it and zoomed in to 1200%. Unavoidably, even when using
the Overlap method, complex tracings can still have small holes where
edges don't meet. A solid background in a matching color might solve the
