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Anyone who is talented with Illustrator and Photoshop, help please?

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MrCodeDude

Lifer
So I need to take this graphic and make it all vectors through Illustrator.

The only way I know how to do this is manually trace each line with either the pen or paint-brush. This would take forever getting all the itty bitty details, but even if I could somehow get the big stuff out of the way, it would save me a good amount of time.

My friend did something with a simpler graphic by using masks in Photoshop and then importing that mask to Illustrator. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance.
 
glad to see it is so important.. :roll:



at any rate, you can make the file suitable for auto paths in illustrator. If you can get a larger file (scan at higher res?) that would be best, but basically you do this (if you start with a different source file, you may need different numbers):

1. adjust levels in photoshop to achieve maximum contrast without losing too much image information. For the black point I looked at the hair of the main person, and for the white point I looked at some of the thinner lines to the upper left of the main person, as well as the small text at top. I used 90 1.35 230 on the file you provided.
2. desaturate
3. size up the image - bigger is better. I used 600%
4. unsharp mask - set amount to 500 and adjust radius for optimum clarity. Threshhold should be 0. I used a radius of 5.
5. use the clone tool to clean up any stray marks, and to fix the logo at top so it doesn't read "CALIPORNIA" (etc)
6. save as a format that can be imported in illustrator
7. import into illustator and set auto paths.
Can't help you with that part, as I don't have illustrator.
 
i can do it in like a day cuz thats a lot of detail... heh, a lot of vectors

shapes and lines are about it... which is basically everything 😛
 
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Originally posted by: Dubb
there are various programs that can do this pretty easily...most of the the ones I've used were for transfering cad scans, but I'd think adobe streamline would work pretty well for this. I think there might even be a free trial that's good for 15 days or something

try this, you need to register.

http://www.adobe.com/support/d...5&platform=Windows
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I tried scanning it. It didn't catch a lot of stuff.
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Works fine for me
 
Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Originally posted by: Dubb
there are various programs that can do this pretty easily...most of the the ones I've used were for transfering cad scans, but I'd think adobe streamline would work pretty well for this. I think there might even be a free trial that's good for 15 days or something

try this, you need to register.

http://www.adobe.com/support/d...5&platform=Windows
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I tried scanning it. It didn't catch a lot of stuff.
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Works fine for me
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You must have a great scanner or something.

How did you import the graphic from a non TWAIN32 source? Or did you print it out and then scan it?

Because Streamline didn't catch a lot of stuff at all.
 
I used the pic you posted, no scanning involved....increase contrast/brightness, resample to a higher res, sharpen, in Pshop. Then open in streamline, tweak some sttings (I used the "hand sketch" preset with a couple adjustments) and hit convert, save as .ai...bam, done, 5 min.

you could get much better results spending a little more time with it...scan to a higher res, really tweak it in pshop, and run it through streamline a with a variety of settings, and then pick and choose various parts to assemble a final file (some settings will do some parts of the image better than others)
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Smack your artist and tell them to do their stuff in vector to begin with. Buy them a tablet for christmas.
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Heh, I wish. This isn't an artist, this is an assignment for class. We had to do a sketch and then switch with a partner and re-create it in vector form. Little did I know someone would draw something this complicated.
 
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