Bitmap Trace
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- Iconolove
I am making t-shirts for a band and I am want something like
where the lines are. I was wondering is there a easy way around getting that effect or do I have to do it all by hand. Someone mentioned bitmap trace, but I don't know what my settings on flash would be to get it like that. I would really appreciate the help.Thank you,
Iconolove
- blackspade0
hmm id be interested also
- blackspade0
sweetasbro
so its a bitmap trace in Adobe Streamline ? i have streamline
- sweetasbro0
yeah, it's an old app - Adobe haven't updated in years, but yes, it's for bitmap tracing (before Flash came around - as it's better in accuracy), it's simple to use, but hard to control... 90% times it will give you a trace just like the hand image by default - no colour just give some stroke thickness and wah lah!
- blackspade0
yea ive used it plenty but never got that kind of 'outline' result (like that hand)
.. has it got somthing to do with what u do with the photo prior to importing it into strreamline ?
- Iconolove0
Does anyone happen to know the flash settings in the bitmap tracing that will give you this effect, I didn't really understand how to use it.
- sweetasbro0
From the horses' mouth:
http://www.macromedia.com/suppor…
From one of the many water holes:
http://www.webdevelopersnotes.co…
- meok0
hi
trace bitmap,
bring into illustrator,
set fill to white and outline to black.bye
- sweetasbro0
blackspade
You're right about the image... You can get similar effects if the original image is very detailed - eg. use a colour hi-res images instead of lo-res bitmaps
- CyBrainX0
I would bet the house that was done in Photoshop with Find Edges or Trace Contour.
- meok0
nice, now you just lost your house.
- blackspade0
tru meok, ..why i didnt think of that ill never know.
i know u can get similar effects in photoshop, but vector is what im after
- sweetasbro0
definitely Streamline, see the horizontal lines on the hand? that's where postscript vector shapes overlapping... looks nice in outlined mode because of the complexity but would look shit if it had colours
- meok0
- sweetasbro0
blackspade
AI autotrace would never give you that kind of trace, especially you have do it manually (about 100 times) and the acuracy is far from detailed
- Iconolove0
so the lines are just traces?
- blackspade0
meok,
what are u using for your trace bitmap then
flash i take it ?
- meok0
you are correct
- meok0
btw, about streamline:
Delete it from your computer. You can do what it does within photoshop with a lot more precision and control. And yes, we're talking vector output. Adobe didnt drop streamline for nothing. Ok, thats it for me, goodnight guys.