Help Tracing in CS 3

Hi there,
I am trying to trace a logo in Illustrator because the current one is pixelated and rough looking around the curves.  I was thinking I could open the image up in Illustrator and use the tracing options to smooth out the roughness but I am at a loss on what to do. I have tried various settings without success.  Is there an easy way to do this?  I am not well versed in using the pen tool and have a lot of difficulty with trying to do curves.  Any guidance on what to do is greatly appreciated.  I am using Adobe Illustrator CS3 on a MacBook Pro.  Thanks!

It really helps you in the long run to learn the Pen tool in AI. It's the basis of many drawings. Practice with it just doing some simple things like doing a straight line which you can do by clicking once with the pen tool and then holding down the shift key to restrict the movement to horizontal or vertical before clicking again. For curves you click and drag before releasing to pull a handle out of the anchor point and then repeat to continue the curve. Play around an see what happens with longer and shorter handles. By using the Selection tool or Direct selection tool, try clicking on one of the handles and drag it around and see how it changes the curve. It's all really just practice.

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