Easy Way to make Vector images

[Trogdor]

A new site called vectormagic lets you convert all of your images to vector.
Note: it is still vectormagic beta but it works great
Go Here
Here is a zune background i made with help from this site
I first handdrew a pic then vectorized and resized.

[KAM]

Nice Find!

[Trogdor]

I wish there was more sites like this but its cool that stanford made this

[zombie278]

whats vector

Originally Posted by zombie278

whats vector

Vector basically is just a style of art in which your trace over pictures and such to create a realistic cartoony effect.

[spddrcr]

vector is so much more then that, basically when you create a vector drawing it can be resized with zero pixelation or artifacts. here's a quick blurb from wiki:

Vector graphics (also called geometric modeling or object-oriented graphics) is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics. It is used in contrast to the term raster graphics, which is the representation of images as a collection of pixels, and used as the sole graphic type for actual photographic images.



Example showing effect of vector graphics versus raster graphics. The original vector-based illustration is at the left. The upper-right image illustrates magnification of 7x as a vector image. The lower-right image illustrates the same magnification as a bitmap image. Raster images are based on pixels and thus scale with loss of clarity, while vector-based images can be scaled indefinitely without degrading.

hope this helps some people here. I use vectors everyday as i make decals for carwindows and such, im going to check out the site to see how well it does.

thanks for the link

[wizard7926]

Tried this Denver Broncos image with amazing success.. this is the real deal!

[FlatTopFoley]

Thats cool, but it still doesn't have that same feeling of doing it yourself in photoshop :p

[endlessinsanity]

Photoshop, who uses that?

/sarcasm

[Trogdor]

Yeah everybody uses Gimp nowadays right?

[Gregory]

I use Gimp

[asuro]

this is cool but ive seen it before.......i thought this would have some easy way to learn illustrator or something =[

[detroit_zune313]

Is there a tutorial for easier way to make vector images

[asuro]

Originally Posted by Trogdor

Yeah everybody uses Gimp nowadays right?

i use photoshop.......gimp is cool but i dont like its tablet support, or lack there of, so i use photoshop =]

[Dark616]

This works quite well. I was expecting something more like "A Scanner Darkly" style. anyone know of any more like that?

[tw05baller]

ya i can just do it in photoshop

[wetworker]

Illustrator is the king when it comes to that, I rarely use the new victorize tool in it, and the only time I use it is for fast and unimportant areas I need that vector look, the majority of time, logos or jobs that need precise drawing must be done with the tools in illustrator.

These tools are nice but over time if you use them your skills will diminish, this is what happen with Photoshop, back in the day of 3.0 if you wanted to do bevels, you have to go through over 20 steps sometime, sure that might be tedious but in the long run, you get a good understanding of the tools in Photoshop. …Illustrator for life.

[jimjimson]

i used that site for some work i did a ways back. it really IS magic

[Zazuneafoon]

nice find

[Rissa]

vectors are ok for images that dont have alot of detail.
otherwise, to me it just looks funny.