Typophile

Vectoring Sketches?

fredcastle

Whats the best way to turn a sketch into vector?

I have something like this:

And I want to turn it into vector, but then also preserve its hand drawn quality.

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david h

tablet + custom Illustrator brushes (and/or Adobe Streamline RIP :^) — still doing stuff with it)

ChuckGroth

very simply:

open Illustrator
Place image
Object - Live Trace - Make and Expand
(you may want to experiment with Trace Options to see how close to the origianl you want to get)

You’re done.

For more info: http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/a/184934.htm

ChuckGroth

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