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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2008 03:59:00 No.591048 View View Reply Original Report

Quick question-
How do I vecorize something? I have used a few online applications, and they always end up with the colors a bit miss matched. Also the level of detail is so low it hurts.

So My main question is how do I do it in Photoshop? I use Photoshop Elements 6.0
Any help would be awesome. Thanks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2008 04:41:00 No.591062 Report

Quoted By: >>591067

>>591048
i know practically nothing about the subject, but in my experience with image editing, couldn't you just use lines in a separate layer and just draw right on top of the image? (like, using vectors, make a lineart version of the picture by hand). Shouldn't be too hard, just a little time consuming. That's how I always assumed vectoring was done. Not with some converter application.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2008 05:01:00 No.591067 Report

Quoted By: >>591103

>>591062
Yes, basically it's just tracing with the pen tool. Although, if you want it to look decent you'll have to put a bit more effort in. Live Trace and other auto-vectoring methods are garbage.

A basic guide:
http://www.slhess.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inkscape_tracing_tutorial

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2008 05:05:00 No.591068 Report

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Get Inkscape (google it). Its a gree image Vectoring program. Vectoring is all done by hand, with the exception of, possibly, the edge lines, which can be auto traced in Illustrator(and Inkscape; but their auto-trace sucks). But, all other colors and shapes are traced by hand. When you get the hang of it, it doesn't take more than a day or two to Vector an image.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 No.591103 Report

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>>591067
I always thought there was more to it than that as well. But if that's the case...
>>591048
Since apparently it's just tracing with the pen tool, you have a few different options.
First off, I'm not sure about newer versions of PS Elements but older versions don't have the Pen tool at all. Elements is basically a beginner version of PS, so it's cheaper and they left out a lot of crap that's in the full version. Just check your version to see if it's there.

Aside from PS, you could use GIMP. Which has a Path tool which does the same thing. GIMP is also free, just search google for it.

The last option I can think of off the top of my head is Manga Studio. It has a pen tool that works pretty good. Version 3.0 has been out for a while, but if you don't know your way around an image editor it's kind of obnoxious to learn because the built-in tutorial sucks. Version 4.0 just came out, but I haven't tried it yet, so I can't tell you much about it. It might be better. Version 3.0 is around $30-40ish now, I think. Version 4.0 is $50, I think.

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