Did a layout for a vehicle and new logo for an outfitter today, course he wanted lots of clipart elements in the layout; trout, snowmobile, kayak & caribou had to be in the layout as well as the business name and two slogans, and he wants it kept to as few colors as possible as the logo will also be used on stationary and has to be legible in b/w when faxed... whew.. ( I'll post the final layout from the shop tomorrow). I've gotten tired of working and reworking the same sorry few clipart pieces available for these elements and went looking for some fresh blood. A quick search using google images got me some pretty pics.
Like all of us I've traced photos before with somewhat limited success, but today I tripped over a step that really simplified the process. With the bitmap image selected in Coreldraw I changed the mode to black and white (1 bit)
I then chose 'line art' as the conversion process, adjusting 'threshold' to optimize results
With the bitmap (now b/w) still selected I launched corel trace from within corel draw >Bitmap>Trace Bitmap
In Corel trace I used the 'advanced outline' trace with the 'clipart' settings selected, from that point close trace and the results are automatically saved in draw.
The whole process took about a minute.. left me grinning.. I left most of the background in, cause I'll use it. I grabbed new caribou, trout and kayak using the same method within about 10 minutes .. from Posted by David McDonald (Member # 3433) on :
Very cool Mike! No pun intended.
I've read in some newsgroups that trace was awesome but had not seen an example yet. Thanks for the how-to.
Dave
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I've used that method to posterize pictures before. It sure beats the old method of using tracing paper over a photo and deciding with your HB pencil in hand which part of the picture is over 50% and making it black and which part is under 50% and leaving it white.
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
YAMAHA!(why aint my a$$ hauling a$$) ya need to talk to that boy! lol
Posted by TransLab (Member # 470) on :
As used in layout
Posted by bronzeo (Member # 1408) on :
Great find Mike.
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
Mike thanks for posting that. I'm studying Corel draw right now.
The only problem I see with your results is that it looks so much better than the other images! Thanks again, Jim D.
Posted by Jeffrey Vrstal (Member # 2271) on :
I've been doing this for a while now... It IS a cool trick and you described it very well.
Thanks!
[ April 25, 2003, 09:41 PM: Message edited by: Jeffrey Vrstal ]
Posted by FairyPainter (Member # 1559) on :
Thanks so much for the lesson... Simple once somebody shows how it is done. I need to use this on a job today.
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
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