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Title: Adobe illustrator Cs3 improvement?
Post by: The 414 on May 02, 2007, 12:30:44 am
Adobe Illustrator Cs3 has just been released. One of the important elements that can be used for restoring artwork is the live trace feature. Cs2 version was a pretty bad feature, it did not make it look close enough to the origional. How does CS3 compare? You decide. Personaly i think cs3 does a much better job then Cs2 did.
First the Png image fully vectored with little tweeking. only 8 colors enabled
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrock.png) 

Png image with full 256 colors enabled more tweeked.
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrockfull.png)

the jpg version it was made from at 72dpi

(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrock.jpg)

Larger Versions
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrock.png (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrock.png)
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrockfull.png (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrockfull.png)
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrock.jpg (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/dc414/Gunrock.jpg)
Title: Re: Adobe illustrator Cs3 improvement?
Post by: stephenp1983 on May 02, 2007, 06:00:43 pm
So was all this done with live trace?  I'd love to see a comparision with the same image done in cs2 and cs3
Title: Re: Adobe illustrator Cs3 improvement?
Post by: The 414 on May 03, 2007, 12:34:55 am
yes all of this was done in live trace. i did nothing by hand. all i did was select the image and hit live trace, selected inked drawing and thats about it except for changing color amounts. As for cs2 and cs3 il see what i can do. 
Title: Re: Adobe illustrator Cs3 improvement?
Post by: patrickl on May 03, 2007, 06:01:53 am
You should look at the result close up. I have always found that live tracing works fine when you look at it from the whole picture, but when you go close it looks like a mess.
Title: Re: Adobe illustrator Cs3 improvement?
Post by: zorg on May 03, 2007, 07:25:23 am
sacle it at 400% or more and let see if you still find it nice and sharp  :laugh2: