# Tracing a photograph?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracing-a-photograph/3249>\
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**Created:** [April 22, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracing-a-photograph/3249 "2002-04-22T15:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracing-a-photograph/3249/1 "2002-04-22T15:26:10Z")

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Helo everybody…

Here’s my problem, i want to trace a photograph so it becomes a EPS vector… what’s the easy way? and should i use Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand or Maybe photoshop? and how should i it?

Any comments welcome…

thanx!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracing-a-photograph/3249/2 "2002-05-12T17:54:20Z")

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I don’t know what you mean by EPS, but I can tell you that Flash has a feature “Trace Bitmap” that can trace any image into vector. Access it by going to Modify\>Trace Bitmap…