Anyone have links to a tutorial that teaches how to trace a photograph in X6 to make it a B&W line art vector image?
Tutorial doesnt need to be free I just want to learn how to do this like the image below.
Thanks
Hello Larry; Almost everything to be scaned is different, so different things work (Sometimes) If I had to do the picture of the truck you have posted (Bottom) I would send it to PP and convert it to a black & white and maybe dress it up some if needed then take it back to draw and try tracing with different settings until I found something that worked. Most of the time text doesn't come out well so I just replace it. The top picture shouldn't be bad, I would think. I think the best way to learn is just to try to remember what settings are doing for you and practice a lot.
Good Luck, George
Top left shows the original starting position, bottom right shows a manual trace, top left is a combination of Manual and Trace Bitmap in Draw, bottom left is Edge detect in PhotoPaint. I guess it depends on how much time per image you have.
Larry B said: Anyone have links to a tutorial that teaches how to trace a photograph in X6 to make it a B&W line art vector image? Tutorial doesnt need to be free I just want to learn how to do this like the image below.
We do a lot of artwork cleanup. Typically we set the original to a 2nd layer, put a 50% transparency
on it (so it's lighter and you can see your new linework), lock the layer and then draw the vector on
layer 1. A tablet is mandatory for me but I have other designers that just use a mouse.
if you have a jpg with few colors like a design in just black and white, and it is not too pixelated, you go like this:
In corel, resample the image to 300dpi, and sometimes it helps if you double the size it will finally have to be to get all the detail in, so 200% in size. Or if it is big enough leave the size as is. Please note that pushing up the dpi makes the edges fuzzier as Corel inserts pixels where none was before to artificially create information that was missing...Now, make a copy of this buffed up jpg, paste directly onto the original, then take the top most one, go to bitmap convert to black and white, line art, and zoom in or out in the little view boxes to see what looks best as you adjust the slider to make everything either black or white. Remember to check if everything is colored black as some things, like shadows or lighter colors might not be there on that range of black/white balance.
Once everything is either black or white, click ok, and you SAVE YOUR FILE!!! Corel stands a chance of crashing when you trace. then you take this artwork and trace it as an outline. Because you only have either black or white, everything is either black or white. Remember to select group colors so you have 2 groups when you are finished adjusting your smoothness and details.
after the trace you SAVE AGAIN!! then you can delete the layer with the background (usually white) you don't need. You can also delete the black and white image on top of the correct one, lock the correct one, go to wire frame and start un-grouping and editing nodes. If your image has more than one color you can do this process as many times as need be to get the outline of what you need, but change the outlines of each one to a different color and learn to use your object manager to see what you are editing and to select things behind other things. Quick trace does not always save you time and you do need to practice this to know when to do it by hand and when to try and get Corel to do most of the work for you.