Vector Magic is AWESOME

So I should have posted this a while ago but I forgot about it and just noticed the link in my bookmarks.

vectormagic.com

This is a site that was created for a senior project or something like that. Anyway, it creates a vector image automatically from any image file format. This is really handy for those of us who are not graphic designers. Check out this label I just did....



this is my original, graining picture not so hot....



and this is the automatically created vector format. I think it looks pretty sweet and crisp! The site is free for pnc file downloads and you can pay for other higher res image types.

I think it is a cool site you may want to check out.

It looks like the photoshop "cutout" filter.

It does look that way but these are in vector format... which is different, basically it is a true digital image that can be changed to any scale without distortion. I just thought it was cool.

Boerderij Kabouter said:

It does look that way but these are in vector format... which is different, basically it is a true digital image that can be changed to any scale without distortion. I just thought it was cool.

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You just gave me a good topic to spend hours on wikipedia researching! Thanks!

This is pretty cool. I used your image and messed around a bit with Gimp and Vector Magic. Here's my result:



Thanks for the link!

That's a really good result for a free program. Vector auto-tracing was a really hard thing for software to do a just a couple years ago. I used to use Adobe Streamline (not supported anymore). Now I use the auto trace feature built into Illustrator CS2 - nothing compares. There are a couple other programs out there, but the example posted above is best result I have seen from a free program.

surfingpl said:

That's a really good result for a free program. Vector auto-tracing was a really hard thing for software to do a just a couple years ago. I used to use Adobe Streamline (not supported anymore). Now I use the auto trace feature built into Illustrator CS2 - nothing compares. There are a couple other programs out there, but the example posted above is best result I have seen from a free program.

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Truly, the LiveTrace feature in Illustrator opened a lot of doors for this type of application. i dont remember if this is the case with CS2...but in CS3 there are a LOT of LiveTrace options. you decide how tight, how many colors (which makes it easy to do purely black & white silhouette type stuff), and all that.

agreed though, this free program looks pretty good!!! nice link