There is no way to do it with Photoshop or Illustrator. You can do it in Flash using Trace Bitmap function, and then export in AI format. If you want to use Adobe stuff, you can use Streamline, but I like the Flash tool more.
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okay i have illustrator and photoshop. i need an easy way to make a drawing i made into vector art for illustrator so the silkscreening shop can use it. whats the easiest way? i have a book that says if you just save the file as an illustrator file (.ai) its automatically vector art but im not so sure. any of you guys know?
All eye seeing
There is no way to do it with Photoshop or Illustrator. You can do it in Flash using Trace Bitmap function, and then export in AI format. If you want to use Adobe stuff, you can use Streamline, but I like the Flash tool more.
I don't know how to get rid of the huge space here.
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hmmmm, cause all they told me was save it as an illustrator format. i was like okay, do you want it as .ai, eps.....what? and they said it had to be vector based. so im making a t-shirt for my work thats including text and a drawing (simple line art like i said) so what am i supposed to do now? blah.
word up holmes.
In the newtype usa mags they show people doing stuff like that all the time. They usually draw the image and then scan it. Then import it into photoshop. There they do coloring and effects and stuff.
Photoshop can do it, although it's of poor quality (pixmap-> vector always is).
-Select the region you want to be a vector
-Paths palette > make work path...
-the lower the tolerance, the more accurate but the more points as well. The default is often fine.
-give the newly created path a name
-file menu > export paths to illustrator
The best automatic way to do it is with Adobe Streamline, which is expensive software and difficult to get right. Basically it does the same process as above, just for every vector and automatically. It uses the same pixmap->vector engine that PS does.
The best way to do it is by hand, which depending on the image won't take an AI veteran long to do at all.
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you mean just using the pen tool and "drawing over" the original image right? i can never get curves right in these programs. those bars never seem to do what i want
The pen tool creates manual vector paths, just like in illustrator. "Make work path" from the Path palette will create a vector path from whatever the current selection is. Like if you take the rectangle marquee tool and select a rectangular area, then do "Make work path", that selection will become a rectangular vector. Combine that with the fact that PS can do very powerful selecting, and it's a decent if somewhat tedious method.
It really depends on the image. Sometimes this is a perfectly fine way to go, other times its not. But then again doing pixel to vector conversions is highly image dependant no matter what route you take.
The Remix
Yeah and if that demo is like all the other Adobe demos, you won't be able to save. Worth a shot though.
weebelizin'
Streamline is shit, your better of using the feature in Freehand/Flash....
BUT thats part of real world graphic design, doing shitty line art manually, either with a technical pen then scanning or tracing a photo in illustrator.
On another note, that makes no sense that the silk screening place needs your art vectorized....for a drawing you did to be put on a shirt? WTF??? DUDE THAT MAKES NO SENSE!!!
It does make sense that they want an EPS file, just make sure you scan your drwing in at a high resoulution and save it as an generic EPS.
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