Illustrating a glass of beer in Photoshop

[DUCCCC]

This looked like one that a few people here might like to read:
http://psdtuts.com/drawing/illustrating-a-cool-glass-of-beer/

(Found on BoingBoing.net, I can't take the credit for that)

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I haven't gotten very familiar with my CS2 but, wouldn;t it be easier to just shoot a photo of a glass of beer and then mask and convert to vector graphics?

 

[foppa78]

Might be a dumb question but can you convert a jpeg or gif to a vector graphic if I don't have photoshop?

 

[BierMuncher]

Oh yeah?

Here's mine...



take that...

 

[DUCCCC]

Oh yeah?

Here's mine...
...

take that...

That's better than I can do in MS Paint!

 

[homebrewer_99]

What's wrong with the old fashioned way??

Take a picture...

 

[mrfocus]

What's wrong with the old fashioned way??

Take a picture...

Aye, what if you don't have a camera?

 

[homebrewer_99]

Aye, what if you don't have a camera?

Then why would you want to draw a picture of a beer?

 

[DeathBrewer]

i know! wouldn't you be out brewing or buying beer????

oh, and where's the head?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Then why would you want to draw a picture of a beer?

Yeah. I'd much rather draw a pitcher of beer.

 

[DeathBrewer]

Might be a dumb question but can you convert a jpeg or gif to a vector graphic if I don't have photoshop?

you can't convert a jpeg to a vector ever. it's bits of colors in rows. best you could do is trace it in a vector program or find some crazy program to find the lines.

 

[Austin_]

Might be a dumb question but can you convert a jpeg or gif to a vector graphic if I don't have photoshop?

You can, but I'm guessing that if you don't have Photoshop then you probably don't have Illustrator. For simple raster images it's pretty easy if you use the Live Trace feature in Illustrator. The more complex the raster image, the more complex the conversion is to vector. When it's all said and done, however, you are really never going to get what you want from the conversion. It will be close, but not perfect. I know there are a few open-source vector programs out there, but I'm not too familiar with them. Try looking around. They might have a feature similar to Live Trace in Illustrator.

 

[tuckferrorists]

Yeah. I'd much rather draw a pitcher of beer.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I love it!

 

[DUCCCC]

All kidding aside, this might come in handy for some of the more talented types when making labels and such.

 

[Bobby_M]

Live trace in Illustrator is pretty clever but it doesn't do well with pictures with a lot of color depth. It helps to posterize the image first.

I took the original low res output from www.says-it.com that looked like this:

Then I livetraced it and used photoshop to make this version:

 

[Ryan_PA]

That glass looks familiar:



Click for closer view

 

[mrfocus]

Then why would you want to draw a picture of a beer?

The question is: why not?

 

[FishinDave07]

This is my computer background

 

[Laurel]

Thanks! I was looking for a high res beer background for a gift certificate and couldn't find one. I had to run a low res one through a filter and it looked stupid. I'll bookmark that and give it a shot sometime!

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

OP - yep it is easy as pie.

Check this out:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=60356

 

[DUCCCC]

OP - yep it is easy as pie.

Check this out:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=60356

Thanks for that link, I missed it the first time around, and I can totally use that!

 

[Kaiser]

That's pretty cool. But I doubt that I'll have the time for that.

Kai

 

[srm775]

Might be a dumb question but can you convert a jpeg or gif to a vector graphic if I don't have photoshop?

you can, but it's easiest through illustrator, and it's not exactly the best. The live trace option works, but it really only works for simple flat raster graphics.