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I need to create a line drawing of the outline of a chair. I tried following the various Illustrator tutorials to take the image of a chair and create a silhouette. However, I can't figure out how to take this silhouette and get just the outline of it. The Illustrator Image Trace tool doesn't seem to have an option to just save the outline.
Is there an easy way in Illustrator or Photoshop to turn this silhouette into an outline image that I can save as a file? I will print the outline in a very light opacity so that the lines are barely visible for hand rendering. I don't want to use the pen tool to outline the silhouette because my hand is too shaky to do a good job.
THank you for any advice...

Thank you Monika and Steve for suggesting to ungroup and then use the direct selection to edit it, and to change the fill to zero and the stroke to a very thin line.
It turned out that the outline was very wavy/crooked, since image trace outlined the pixels somewhat haphazardly. So the final solution was complicated because I had to learn how to use direct select and edit anchor points to straighten out the lines.
I guess it would have been easier to use a light box and just trace the image by hand. oh well. I learned alot about Illustrator.
Thank you again for your helpfulness!

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