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- HAYZ1LLLA
I've created an image of a face in Dmesh but the results are quite low res. I want to create a vector of it so I can print high res.
I'm really struggling with live trace in AI though. I also scouted through photoshop filters to create a cleaner sharper high res photo. Any suggestions?
- ********0
It's pretty basic why don't you just redraw it in illustrator. Trace it with the pen tool..
- detritus0
Aye, you'll spend more looking for a shortcut to do this quickly than you would just doing it stupidly, point by point.
You know it, set knows it, I know it.
But hey, it's Friday.
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Yea I'm already on it. Figured as much. Just wondered for the next one.
I think the trace tool in illustrator is a big pile of shit. If it can't turn those simple triangles into vectors what can it do.
- BaskerviIle0
Next time do it natively in illustrator with Delauney Triangulation:
http://www.creatogether.com/ai-d…
http://jonathanpuckey.com/projec…
- detritus0
The problem is, if you're feeding ^that image into it, it's tiny and grubbily artefacted, so you need a nigh-on intelligent capability to interpret and then dissect which bits you want, which bits that you don't.
Even enlarging and doing some simple line improvement in PS before importing into AI (my usual route for this sort of thing) doesn't really output decent results.
- BaskerviIle0
The Dmesh website says you can output to PDF btw:
- monospaced0
There are definitely settings in Illy's live trace that can handle this. It might be as simple as going in and telling it "no curves" and "x amount of colors" or just "b&w" and 100% accuracy. Maybe it's the tech setting and you add the color. I know it can do this pretty quickly.
- Go on, then.
Show us.detritus - btw, I agree with your original commentmonospaced
- Go on, then.
- monospaced0
- If your source was cleaned up in PS first and made larger, the results would be even better.monospaced
- Yea, I stand corrected. Looks really good. Feels funny seeing my face all over this thread LOLHAYZ1LLLA
- I'm not gonna say that the result even compares to doing it manually, because it doesn't.monospaced
- HAYZ1LLLA0
^ Mono is right. After lots of tweaking it's close.
But still quicker to trace manually.
- I got better results just using a limited color palette. None of that double-line stuff.monospaced
- but you're 100% right, doing it by hand is the most efficientmonospaced
- Yea just saw your post after. Well done sir. I take it all back ;-)HAYZ1LLLA
- BaskerviIle0
Not sure if you saw my post above, but you can output as vector from DMesh, no need for tracing in illustrator:
Original image:
Image imported into DMesh (note 'save format': vector)
PDF opened in Illustator:
Outlines view in illustrator:
- detritus0
haha, d'oh - I even missed the 'PDF' part when I went through the feature comparison on his website.
ffs, we'd make good idiot beta testers, at least.
- ********0
Good job you lovely shower of semi-wits
- stoplying0
Looks like Charlie from Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- I actually look more like http://www.iranchamb…HAYZ1LLLA