Fine Tracing
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- arsyusha
Anyone knows of a tracing app/plugin for mac which allows to produce very fine details? Illustrator's Live Trace is pretty bad and doesn't make it. See the image for an example of what we need to trace. This is not the actual image but shows the amount and fineness of details.
Thank you!
- detritus0
you could try vector magic, which gives preferable results at lower resolutions. Best bet would be to have a super high, very well cleaned version of the file to scan from - I can't imagine anything being able to eke good quality vectors from an image like the above, at that resolution.
- detritus0
http://www.alphaplugins.com/ has got a pretty decent engraving plugin for Photoshop, if that's an option.
- Actually - fuck that - the lines in your image follow the forms contours.detritus
- arsyusha0
Thanks for responses, it does need to be a vector. Basically we need to trace a pretty small image and then blow it up to a big size...
Any more ideas?
- inkpink0
illustrator live trace does a great job, you just gotta spend some time getting the settings right.
- Right... try to trace this image and see what you will come up with -- http://www.artlebede…
arsyusha - no app will magically fix a bad source imageinkpink
- i've created some massive and highly detailed vector traces with Illustrator LT...inkpink
- but difference being HQ source imageinkpink
- Right... try to trace this image and see what you will come up with -- http://www.artlebede…
- inkpink0
sorry but your original is not gonna cut it.
zoom in @800%. look at all the grey pixels between hairlines... no app is gonna fix that.
- inkpink0
- he's right. Live Trace does a great job if you tweak the settings, but it can't work miracles.dopepope
- factmonospaced
- neowe0
from OP...
"This is not the actual image but shows the amount and fineness of details. "
- monNom0
redraw by hand. you could be done by now.
- monospaced0
Why do you need it in vector form? You'd probably be pretty good off making it a high-resolution black-and-white bitmap TIFF. The file size stays low and the detail is high and it can be placed into any design file. That's what I would do.
- these can be blown up very large with great resultsmonospaced
- < you could even change the color of the bmp that way if neededneowe
- indeedmonospaced
- arthur0
Hire an illustrator?
- i hear arthurmount.com is the way to go...neowe
- i've heard similararthur