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Halftone Effect – Dots – Image – vector…
Hi guys,
I know there have been a few posts on this, and if I can remember, a rather long winded solution involving a halftone font and rotating the image etc.
Anyway, my mate got me onto this program which will give your really quite low resoliution images the halftone look….And turn them into vectors so that you can scale them up!
I downloaded this low res image:
and loaded it into the program ( you can alter the print and dot size, so you can make the finished image as big as your printer will allow if you want )
Anyway, as you can see, it gives pretty good results :
You would not be able to print the image on the left – it would be far too pixelated, and although the image on the right is an obvious ‘stylized’ version of the original, because the program saves in .pdf with vector information ( which can be opened in Illustrator CS and then saved as an .eps ) this can be scaled up and up !!
( 73cm X 73cm )Anyway, hope this is of some help to someone.
The program is called ‘rasterbator’ ( how rude )
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Cheers
Danny
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9 Replies
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I stubled apon this program some time ago and sometimes the stuff you can do with it comes out awesome, its really good for some of the more abstract stuff I tend to do, glad you posted this I didnt even think about how many people on here this might be useful to. 🙂
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It’s worth checking out the gallery on the site aswell. It’s main focus was for the home user to print out large images using a4 sheets on their home printer….which some people ( with obviously a lot more free time than I ) have taken to extremes….
😮
We’ll never complain about having to ’tile’ images again!!!
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You can turn Bitmap to Vector in Corel OCR as well ( even full colour pictures) Be warned – sometimes your pic wil have a few hundred thousand components, and can take for ever to edit! But, playing around with settings, you can also get a "styled" appearance, or, if traced at high accuracy, can appear almost as good as the bitmap.
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Hi Danny,
Thanks for that, i’ve downloaded it and had a go – just what I was looking for.Cheers John
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When I try to run the EXE file after extraction of ZIP I get a ‘failed to initialise’ error – anybody got any clues to the problem.
Alan D -
Alan,
Make sure you have .NET 1.1 installed on your pc.
Danny,
Nice one, thx for the link. I’ve tried it and it’s quite impressive. I generated a 540000 object pdf file on my second attempt. Thumbs up!
Regards,
GeoZ
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Thanks for the link Danny,
far simpler than the font thing…
Peter
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I did a similar thing for an art student , she was taking part in an art exhibition to do with what ppl use Cars for . She asked me to vinyl cut scenes that could be sandblasted on the cars windows , i just used photshop to generate gross 1/2tones and traced and cut em.
The scenes were ppl having sex etc in cars , and it was only when you stepped back that things became obvious. It actually looked real cool , was sort of like looking at ppl doing their thing thru steamy car windows.
I did the cutting , but refused to weed or apply , she did that herself , evidently it took over 2 hrs to weed a side window. Took AGES to cut the stuff too. -
Rodney, my heart bleeds for you mate! Just yesterday I started cutting some sandblast stencills for an old bat working from Windhoek. Started about 12h00, and the courier van had to wait until about 18h30 at our shop to collect! Total size was about 2000 x 600mm, but with HUNDREDS of butterflies, bushman drawings, horses, bleedin’ jingle bells, and what else not. It stinks!
It’s true about SKILLFULLY apllied sandblasting though. This client did all the sandblasting on the luxury "Desert Express" train. Nature scenes, etc. These all had to look good even if viewed up close. I aged 10 years in 1 month, but the result was absolutely stunning! She always does her own weeding, since she blasts different areas with different grit substrates etc, to create shading etc. I guess at R3000-00 per square metre you can afford to take your time!
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