What is Photo Tracing?

Nowadays photo tracing design becomes popular, we often see photo tracing design products anywhere. Such as in print media, T-Shirt, sticker, poster, billboard, and also banner. In graphic design, tracing means the process of redrawing an illustration using appropriate tools. We can change bitmap photo object into vector design based. The one of graphics program that use for tracing process is CorelTRACE. This program will do tracing process automatically. If the tracing has formed, we can edit the object using CorelDRAW aplication in order to create an attractive design.

Now, you can see the pictures before and after tracing, below.

Looks like a cartoon picture, but the face of the object still looks the same, and we can make a POP-ART design using this technique, add color to make it cool..!! :)