Converting images (Jpeg) to Vector

Ear · October 28, 2009, 02:04:33 PM

Quote from: gnubler on October 28, 2009, 01:58:49 PMAs you can see by this example of a photo I traced of "some guy", Auto Trace in CS1 does a crap job and in fact makes more of a mess than if you just drew with the pen tool.

That's actually kinda cool looking. Definite improvement. :tongue:

DigitalCrapShoveler · October 28, 2009, 02:08:32 PM

That fucker looks black?!?!?!

Ear · October 28, 2009, 02:13:33 PM

I pity da fool.

Skryber · October 28, 2009, 02:15:23 PM

Here is the "Live Trace" in CS4 using 6 colors. (Which I was able to output to my swatch palette.)

DigitalCrapShoveler · October 28, 2009, 02:17:26 PM

Who is that guy?

pspdfppdfxhd · October 28, 2009, 04:09:46 PM

What's YOUR VECTOR VICTOR

Farabomb · October 28, 2009, 04:29:07 PM

And don't call me Shirley.

frailer · October 28, 2009, 05:48:38 PM

:cheesy:

delooch · October 28, 2009, 09:28:36 PM

try these fooz:

http://rapidshare.com/files/299369103/C76.ai.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/299369102/baseball-stamp-60s.ai.html

these are out of VM, i dont even fool with live trace on complex images..

Skryber · October 29, 2009, 06:30:13 AM

I think vector magic does the exact same thing as live trace, you just don't have controls to play with, right? I always get the same quality when I use VM.

delooch · October 29, 2009, 10:24:26 AM

Quote from: Skryber on October 29, 2009, 06:30:13 AMI think vector magic does the exact same thing as live trace, you just don't have controls to play with, right? I always get the same quality when I use VM.

im running the desktop version, not the online tool. theres a ton of adjustments in there, but i usually stick with the 'auto' settings, they work pretty good as-is.

VM seems to get better tracing results than live trace for me, especially with small type. i couldnt get live trace to get me near the same result as VM, but that may just be because i dont fool with live trace that much..

youston · October 29, 2009, 10:43:10 AM

A couple of years ago, I was playing around with Inkscape. Anyone use it?

I was MORE than surprised by the live trace function in that program. Bested Illustrator in every image I tried.

gnubler · October 29, 2009, 11:02:58 AM

Good to know, Youston. I installed Inkscape on my Mac quite some time ago and...never used it. I always open Illy out of bad habit.

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Converting images (Jpeg) to Vector