Face Tracing on Illustrator

Hey guys
I am tracing my face on Illustrator, and I have some trouble with my picture. How do I make Illustartor show shadows and light on the image ? You know, like the light reflecting on my face? We're supposed to trace it by guiding the different shades of my face color, ligher or darker. Thanks for your help.

While having your face selected in Illustrator, look at the top panel right under the menu. You'll see the options for "Live Trace". Click and hold the tiny box with the down-pointing arrow and hold the mouse down.
It will drop down a menu of built-in options for converting your raster image into vector art. Choose "Tracing Options..." down at the bottom of the menu and it will bring up a dialog box with a lot of options.
I would suggest selecting grayscale for the mode and then you can play around with the "Max Colors" number to show more or less detail. I've attached screen shots of where to locate the Live Trace options and another screen shot of the Tracing Options dialog box so you can see the settings I used and the results I got. After you get the settings you want, click "Trace". There's one more step to turn it into editable vector artwork—while your picture is still selected, click the "Expand" button above. You then have total control of what colors you might want to use and unwanted shapes you might want to reshape or delete. Hope this helps.
Ronda

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