I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and maybe I should’ ve posted this on a different thread but you all have been helpful so I thought I’d poll here. Here’s my latest “project”… Īll I really want is the outline of the trees…shouldn’t be THAT hard I wouldn’t think.Īnyway…suggestions for the absolute easiest software to use to do this type of work OR just a simple tutorial would be awesome. Honestly I want to know the steps…don’t care why right now, just want to NOT spend 3 hours on something that should take 20 minutes to design. I have Inkscape but am not opposed to anything else that makes design EASY, SIMPLE, DUMB GUY TERMS. I don’t understand stacks, scans, layers, or anything else remotely close these “technical” terms.Īll I want is the absolute easiest way to take a simple image found on a Google search and convert it to something that I can work with. High Quality Photo Manipulation background image by Pat David (cba). Select the Image Using the Select and Transform Objects Tool (S) Go to Path > Trace Bitmap. I’ve watched Youtube videos, read online tutorials, and read info thus far on this thread and am still completely confused. It is best used in workflows involving other free software such as Scribus and Inkscape. How to Trace Bitmap in Inkscape Step by Step. This takes the nice paths out of photoshop’s selection and turns them into vector artwork in AI.īack to this…AGAIN…So life shouldn’t be so hard for an old simple minded guy that just wants to make some neat stuff on his CNC router. Anyway you can do something different if you have AI (maybe GIMP/Inkscape can do this too?) with your selection instead of filling it in, you can convert your selection to paths, and then "export paths to illustrator). I do not have access to the Photoshop source files. The initial image was created in Photoshop and then converted to a PDF. DFX) to eventually have only the outline of the drawing be 3D printed in plastic (through a design in Autodesk Fusion 360). So now you can fill with the correct color (as below) - and never use JPEG for this as you get compression artifacts, PNG is a way better way to do this. I currently have a color drawing/sketch that I want to convert to a vector file (.SVG or. You can invert the selection (command-shift-I) now you have the hearts. So now you have the opposite of what you want. So the way I solved it was to bring this into photoshop (or GIMP - free if you don’t have AI) and then selected the white background area with the magic wand tool (don’t do a color select or you get all the bleed through points where the paper is showing inside the hearts). Your biggest problem is that your client gave it to you with what looks like a scan of a printout, and the ink/toner didn’t do a good job covering.
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