Celtic cross help please

While it’s expedient to auto-trace, unfortunately, such automation tends to get some detailing wrong:

Since this is a symmetrical design, it’s quite quick to re-draw:

  • place the image on a background layer and lock it:

  • draw in the circles:

  • roughly draw in the cross shape:

  • fine tune it:

ideally the fine-tuning would be perfectly symmetrical, but the drawing isn’t quite:

Forcing symmetry results in:

We then inset the outer cross as necessary to achieve the balance of the design:

and then combine things as compound paths and Boolean operations to get the desired outlines…

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