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Want to remove the background from an image in Adobe Illustrator? In this tutorial, I'll show you how to quickly remove a background using Image Trace. We’ll choose the High Fidelity Photo preset, enable Ignore White when needed, trace the image, expand it, and remove the background to create clean, editable vector artwork.

This method is useful for removing simple backgrounds and converting images into editable vector graphics directly in Illustrator.

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00:00If you want to remove the background from an image in Adobe Illustrator, you can do
00:03it quickly using the Image Trace feature.
00:12First, open Illustrator and go to File, place to import your image.
00:17Select the image, click Image Trace from the top toolbar.
00:22You can also open the Image Trace panel by going to Window.
00:26Choose Image Trace.
00:27Since we are working with a colorful image, I will select the High Fidelity Photo Preset
00:33to keep the colors and details as close to the original as possible.
00:36You can adjust the colors and other tracing options if necessary.
00:40Once the tracing is complete, click Expand to turn the traced image into editable vector
00:45shapes.
00:46Now right click the artwork and choose Ungroup, so you can select the individual elements separately.
00:52Next, click on the blue background and press Delete.
00:55The background is now removed, leaving only the airplane artwork.
01:00And that's how you can remove an image background in Illustrator using Image Trace in just a few
01:07simple steps.
01:08If you found this tutorial useful, don't forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel
01:14for more Illustrator tips and tutorials.

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