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? How do you vectorize artwork?
« on: July 13, 2005, 10:18:00 am »
seen some cracking artwork that people have vectorized. are there any tutorials on how to do this in photoshop?

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Re: ? How do you vectorize artwork?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2005, 11:05:15 am »
most of us started using the Frostillicuss tutorial

the most difficult is to have an access to file in really Hi Resolution. after that tracing is not so difficult, just time consuming.
I'm on the planning stage

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Re: ? How do you vectorize artwork?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2005, 03:53:36 pm »
It's not done in Photoshop, which produces raster graphics. It's generally done in Illustrator or Freehand, there are other vector programs available, but those are the only two that come to mind at the moment.

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Re: ? How do you vectorize artwork?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2005, 06:32:20 pm »
Corel Draw, Visio, Jasc Photoshop and The Gimp also can all do vectors.

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Re: ? How do you vectorize artwork?
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2005, 07:46:34 am »
Inkscape and OpenOffice.org Draw as well.

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Re: ? How do you vectorize artwork?
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2005, 08:18:07 am »
so you have to draw an outline?? i was hoping there'd be some software that does it all for you

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Re: ? How do you vectorize artwork?
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2005, 10:31:42 am »
so you have to draw an outline?? i was hoping there'd be some software that does it all for you


nop we have to trace it by hand.

never rely on some autotracing tools, they just produce crap  :(
I'm on the planning stage