i am trying to trace them to have vector images i can manipulate, but every type of TRACE ruins the drawings. Is there a better way i can go about scanning my drawings or TRACING them for manipulation and clean up
Also how can i have the "black" in the images to be recognized as borders to manipulate.
Thank you for your time.
_andrew
Please just let me know the steps to cure my ignorance in this aspect of the corel software.
they are all completely full 8.5 x 11 computer paper with designs and this is a half scaled down so they would allow me to upload it all this is a simple pattern sheet but basically they are all like this but are darker and more scenic, Also i have tried the scan in grey scale and black and white only i was reading that i should be using gray scale but even then when it came time to do trace, it ruined the image.
I tried to Trace it but you will find it problematic. If you keep enough detail in the image you will end up with far too many objects and nodes in Draw and it will slow to a crawl. If you reduce the image detail then you will lose fidelity.
The attached Draw file was processed thus
I opened the file in PS cropped to the important bit, and upscaled it to 4000px high in three or 4 steps, changed the file to monochrome. Saved it
I then opened the file in Corel Trace 12 (yes I know this is 10 year old technology, but it does not have the stupid file size limitation that Power(hah!)Trace has) and did a max detail outline trace.
You still lose a load of detail, of the greyscale parts of the drawing.
So what I suggest you do is scan at the highest res you can muster. The clean it up in PP, try saving it as a png with say, 8 greyscale colours or possibly 4 if you can manage. Then import into Draw and try Power Trace on it if you cant lay your hands on Trace12.
Trace 12 is plenty capable of tracing way more levels of greyscale and pixels, but what you end up with is a 80,000+ object count which will be completely unuesable in Draw, it will slow to a crawl, so what you are trying to achieve is the mimimum detail that will work for you.
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