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Vectorising
This might sound like a dumb question folks……but here goes…………
Can i vectorise using Corel Draw or Corel Trace? If i can….how do i do it??
I want to vectorise a few photos so i can cut out on vinyl and etch onto a few mirrors.
A guy told me to use the bezier tool on corel draw and plot points all around the pictures, but this a very slow and frustrating way to do it.
Any info greatly accepted and welcomed.
I know this has been covered in the past, but i dont think it was covered using corel 10.
Regards
David
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10 Replies
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Autotracing photos…
Have you tried changing the colour mode to grayscale and then to black and white? Play around with the brightness/contrast to get the right sort of image.
Any old autotrace will then do a pretty good job for glass-etch. Also easy enough to digitise in Corel or other.
Vaguely remember a specialist photo tracing filter which gave a pinstripe sort of effect. Was it in FlexiSign? Think so. Looked good on demos but never found a use for it.
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VMP have a photo feature, never used it, but quite good.
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digitizing is slow and somtimes frustrating, but you get much faster over time and the impossible now seems a walk in the park…
i use signlab for digitising..
cant help with corel sorry! 🙁
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quote Robert Lambie:digitizing is slow and somtimes frustrating, but you get much faster over time and the impossible now seems a walk in the park…i use signlab for digitising..
cant help with corel sorry! 🙁
do you have the link for the demonstration?
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Best to read about it in the manual Derek -It’s all explained there 😀
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whilst i agree with the ‘read the manual’ comments, i sometimes think the manual is only any good if you know what you’re looking for !
depending what you want to achieve in the etches, will depend how you trace or redraw the image, if you simply want a representation of the image (simple 2 tone) the you can do the following,
in corel 12,
import the photo, it’ll come up as a bitmap,do not resize the image yet, simply zoom in,
select the image, click ‘bitmaps’ on the tool bar, select ‘mode’ and then click on ‘black and white 1 bit’.
in the new window select ‘lineart’ in the conversion box, and then adjust to suit how much detail you want,
click ok, now keeping the object selected, launch corel trace from the tool bar, it will auto open the image selected,
click on ‘trace’ on the toolbar, then click ‘trace by advanced outline’, there will also be a small box once you’ve done this, select ‘clipart’ and retrace if neccessary,
save the item as the default save setting CMX, then either open a new draw 12 page, or import the saved image, you can then modify it etc in draw, next time you save it it’ll be a proper cdr image,
if ya look here on my old thread https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=12266, there’s an image of my race car in black vinyl, this was amde using the above technique.
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thanks guys
Hugh do you know how to do this in illustrator?
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You can just close Coreltrace and the image is automatically imported into Corel Hugh.
You can also trace simple stuff in Corel Draw. Seem to remember you double click on the image and then find trace in one of the menus.
Can’t find it at the moment though 🙁
Steve
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sorry Derek, only ever used corel, so cant help you 😕
Stephen, when you close corel trace, as far as i remember, it asks if you wanna save the trace image, i think that even when you click yes, that the image on the page stays the same, i did a grim reaper for my lad yesterday and i’m pretty certain i had to then import or open the trace image, may be wrong !
i’m sure there are differing ways of using corel, i’ve yet to find them, i just plod thru with what i know until i get stuck !
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There is an autotrace tool in Illustrator, but it is very basic. It works best on purely black and white images. You have to click on each shape that you want to trace. I use ver 8 so I don’t know if this has been improved in later versions. Look it up in the Illustrator help index under ‘Autotrace’.
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