Hi guys. Heres my problem............. Im using Design Art Pro 3.5 by ANAGRAPH,thats my first problem. My second is that I have the slightest idea to take a simple picture... in this case a printed jpeg of a rifle , and change it into line art. I cant scan it because it is a color pic..... I surely cant trace it because it way to time consuming........... Is there a way to do this other than sending it out to be digitized. I figure I am just missing something here......If I can pay to have it done I MUST be able to do it myself.......... Thanks Rich
Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :
Don't know the "machine" part of this question. By PICTURE,I am assuming you mean..photograph that needs to be (vectorized)in order for your "machine" to read for vinyl cutting purposes? I would POSTERIZE the photo to black and white. Felt tip pen onto transparencie(similar to a Theactrical drawing) Then scan into the program. This will produce a "Reasonable Fascimilie" If this is NOT acceptable,then....you may have bitten off more than you can chew(machine wise) Hope this helps
Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
Dosen't your scanner twain offer grayscale options?
Posted by Dave Johnson (Member # 2535) on :
Have you tried under your File menu, Scanning, Aquire for Vectorizing?
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
Pat's suggestion is a good one. Another I have done is to open an image file in Photoshop & using the magic wand selection tool, areas of one color can be selected (if they are not too varied in brightness, hue or intensity) then they can be filled black in a seperate layer, Now select all areas of another color the same way, fill with black again and save to another layer. The display of the new black layers can be turned off so you can see what you are doing as you go back into the original multi-color image file and select each different color to create a black seperation layer. You can combine colors where possible to reduce total number of layers. Then each layer can be saved as a .tif file & vectorized in something like Adobe Streamline.
This sounds more complicated then it is, but once you've done it it's fairly quick & easy.
If you are good at hand tracing on vellum & scanning that, you may find that the fastest.
[ February 06, 2002: Message edited by: Doug Allan ]
Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
The only other way is drawing right over the .jpeg with line and curve vector paths. If your trace utility is poor, you'll end up doing a lot of manual editing anyway, heck, just draw the whole thing.
