How to add a stroke to a raster in Illustrator

Here’s a quick video tutorial on adding a stroke to a raster object in Adobe Illustrator.

It’s not very intuitive so it’s unlikely you would just stumble onto the answer. It eluded me for years until I finally decided to hunt down the method. Adobe really should just fix this, already.

There’s no reason in this day and age that we shouldn’t be able to just add a stroke to a raster object the same as a vector object in Illustrator.

Even if it’s not technically the same, to the user it doesn’t matter. Adobe, make it happen! Ok, enough complaining, here’s the vid:

 How to add a stroke to a raster in Illustrator

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  1. Andrew Walker (Reply) on Sep 18, 2011

    Hi there JG. Thanks for sharing this tutorial. I have a friend who also loves using Illustrator, but he’s not good when it’s come to explaining it to me. LOL!
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      Lol Andrew, sometimes Illustrator is not easy to explain. it’s such an unruly beast of a program sometimes! :)

  2. Miles (Reply) on Oct 9, 2011

    Thank you thank you thank you! I have been trying to figure this out for a project. I even bought an expense DVD tutorial from VTC, and they did not explain this! Thank you.


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