Illustrator question
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- thejudders
Are there any good sites which you can suggest that covers converting line drawings on paper (felt tip graphics pen) into vector art. I want to use illustrator to colour drawings, but with considerable speed and also keep the original line thickness variations. I know trace exists, but does it allow coloring of separate areas properly? some help would be greatly appreciated.
- hicklet0
I find the best way is to scan it into photoshop and create paths then copy the paths into illustrator
hope this helps
- MLVR0
I find it easier to mount the scanned image in Illustrator and trace it.
- thejudders0
when you say create paths in photoshop do you mean manualy? and also when you trace an image in illustrator is the traced image easily coloured ?
- san_lee0
http://www.ov3r.com/
this guy (see earlier thread) makes the contours in illustrator and then colours everything in flash.
- save0
Depending on what the image is, I generallly trace it manually in illustrator as the trace tool isn't always accurate.
- hicklet0
normally whack the levels up and use the magic tool to create the paths..
- armed_rob0
Photoshop paths is the best way in my opinion.
But check this:
http://www.silhouetteonline.com/…
- thejudders0
for time reasons I cant use my normal method of redrawing the images by manualy tracing all the elements. So just trying to find the method best for getting the images into vector format for colouring
- tm230
using the trace tool in illustrator to retrace every element is obviously the best way to do !
- mr_snuggles0
If you have a clean high-contrast, 1-colour line drawing then creating paths in Photoshop using the 'Select' > 'Colour Range' function is the quickest and easiest. You can isolate the selected colour using the colour range function and then create a new layer, fill it, then make a clipping path out of it. Drop the saved photoshop .eps into Illustrator, embed the image and delete the background. Then your left with a vector object.