turning pictures into vector graphics?

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Posted by itsamemario on Jul-23-2005 16:14:

turning pictures into vector graphics?

I know theres software around for this, but the ones ive tried truly sucked.. any1 knows of any good programs? pref. free

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Posted by Basstard on Jul-23-2005 16:15:

flash?

Posted by itsamemario on Jul-23-2005 16:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Basstard
flash?

umm how? i have no skills in flash.. i just want to turn some pictures into vector graphics to print on t-shirts...

Posted by netroM on Jul-23-2005 16:19:

maybe GIMP has that possibility?

Adobe Illustrator has it anyways

basically u want to trace an image into vector gfx...?
u can do that very well with illustrator

gimme the picture and i can try to trace it if it ain't that hard

Posted by SID133 on Jul-23-2005 16:27:

just photoshop it

go to Filter>Artistic>Cutout. And add these settings.
Number of Levels: 8
Edge Simplicity: 4 (The higher you go the more it looks like a vector. The lower your go the more it looks realistic.)
Edge Fidelity: 3

is should have a vector look to it

im using CS2 btw

if thats not what you want ill think of something else

Posted by netroM on Jul-23-2005 16:30:

ehrm... the point about vector is that unlike bitmaps, you can resize vector as much as you like and it won't get pixelated, EVER!

oh... wops.. u wanna just make a picture look like vector...
aah.. PS idea over me should work very well then

here's a tutorial for Illustrator
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Posted by PEZ68 on Jul-23-2005 16:47:

quote:
Originally posted by netroM
here's a tutorial for Illustrator
<--- click

yep, that's the way to do it!

Posted by itsamemario on Jul-23-2005 17:05:

i had a program that did it all automatic and nice, it was years ago... i think it was corel something..

Posted by arek on Jul-23-2005 18:05:

no program will do it as good as it should be.

best is to trace it by hand, illustrator.

illustrator has trace functionality, like flash, but the outcome is too complicated or too messy and not as clean as it should be when done by hand.

Posted by netroM on Jul-23-2005 19:00:

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Originally posted by dj_alfi
i had a program that did it all automatic and nice, it was years ago... i think it was corel something..

yeh, Corel Draw... I've never actually tried it, but that must be the proggie u'r talking about

Posted by PEZ68 on Jul-23-2005 19:04:

Also 'Streamliner' do it if I remember. Don't know if it's still updated

Posted by itsamemario on Jul-23-2005 19:41:

quote:
Originally posted by netroM
yeh, Corel Draw... I've never actually tried it, but that must be the proggie u'r talking about

i think it was a program that followed with it, but i dont remember, it was like 10 yrs ago

Posted by itsamemario on Jul-23-2005 19:59:

quote:
Originally posted by PEZ68
Also 'Streamliner' do it if I remember. Don't know if it's still updated

searched for streamliner got a lot of crap.. searched for streamliner+vector and got a site dedicated to a trike...

Posted by PEZ68 on Jul-23-2005 20:00:

My fault, it's Streamline

http://www.adobe.com/products/streamline/

Posted by idoru on Jul-23-2005 20:12:

Inkscape

A friend of mind uses it. I don't know if it's only for Linux or not.

Posted by itsamemario on Jul-23-2005 20:16:

quote:
Originally posted by PEZ68
My fault, it's Streamline

http://www.adobe.com/products/streamline/

seems like theyve discontinued the sale

but they inserted it into cs2, which i am in the progress of buying now..

hehehehe, did u get it???
buy!! haha

Posted by PEZ68 on Jul-23-2005 20:22:

It only costs $499.00

Posted by itsamemario on Jul-23-2005 20:52:

quote:
Originally posted by PEZ68
It only costs $499.00

lol, yeah its totally draining my bandwi... errr i mean wallet!!!