How do i convert a psd to .ai ?
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From: In The Ether
Originally Posted by gyrofx,May 14 2005, 12:09 PM
how do you vectorize a raster file in Flash MX?
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I've played with Adobe Streamline and the auto-trace feature in Illustrator. I've also seen the trace function in Flash. I can tell you that none of them will work well on the image shown (even at higher resolution).
They work very well on cartoon style images with sharp colour changes and very few gradients. But on the image shown they will create many gradients in the coloured areas that you will have to remove and very little detail in the finer areas. It will take longer to edit the result than it would do do the whole thing from scratch.
AE - send me the big file and I'll have a shot at it. But you still haven't said whether it is for engraving or embroidery (one colour or several).
They work very well on cartoon style images with sharp colour changes and very few gradients. But on the image shown they will create many gradients in the coloured areas that you will have to remove and very little detail in the finer areas. It will take longer to edit the result than it would do do the whole thing from scratch.
AE - send me the big file and I'll have a shot at it. But you still haven't said whether it is for engraving or embroidery (one colour or several).
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That is for exporting paths. In PhotoShop a path is a vector tool you use to make selections or clipping paths.
You could conceivably trace the image areas using the path tool and export that to Illustrator but the PS Path tool is a very limited version of Illustrator's and I would hate to try it.
You could conceivably trace the image areas using the path tool and export that to Illustrator but the PS Path tool is a very limited version of Illustrator's and I would hate to try it.