Streamline

On 3/26/05 3:12 PM, in article
umj1e.5491$, "Dennis Hughes"
spewed:

I recently purchased Streamline 4.0 and have tried to convert a psd logo into ai.

The results are much too detailed, with anchor points everywhere.
Are there any tutorials about adjusting the Streamline to make it work? I couldn’t find one on the Adobe site and Google didn’t seem to help.
Is there anything better? Any suggestions on desensitizing Streamline?
Thanks,

Dennis

I have a PDF concerning my use of Streamline available here: http://www.wizardofdraws.com/main/newsletter.htm
Email me if you like for anything that confuses you.
—
Jeff ‘The Wizard of Draws’ Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.wizardofdraws.com

More Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.cartoonclipart.com

Dennis Hughes wrote:

I recently purchased Streamline 4.0 and have tried to convert a psd logo into ai.

The results are much too detailed, with anchor points everywhere.
Are there any tutorials about adjusting the Streamline to make it work? I couldn’t find one on the Adobe site and Google didn’t seem to help.
Is there anything better? Any suggestions on desensitizing Streamline?
Thanks,

Dennis

Wait and behold. It seems the new Illustrator (CS2), I think it will be published beginning of April, has a very good trace tool.

We will have to wait and see.

For now the pen tool is the best solution, in my experience. —
Peter

Jeff,

Thanks for the lead to your web site. Looks like the tutorial will solve my issues as much as they can be.

Dennis

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in
message On 3/26/05 3:12 PM, in article
umj1e.5491$, "Dennis Hughes"
spewed:

I recently purchased Streamline 4.0 and have tried to convert a psd logo into ai.

The results are much too detailed, with anchor points everywhere.
Are there any tutorials about adjusting the Streamline to make it work? I couldn’t find one on the Adobe site and Google didn’t seem to help.
Is there anything better? Any suggestions on desensitizing Streamline?
Thanks,

Dennis

I have a PDF concerning my use of Streamline available here: http://www.wizardofdraws.com/main/newsletter.htm
Email me if you like for anything that confuses you.
—
Jeff ‘The Wizard of Draws’ Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic

Peter,

Thanks for the lead. It seems Illustrator is WAY behind PS in the basic user features, like the browser, etc.. Hope this will catch them up.

Dennis

"PH" wrote in message
Dennis Hughes wrote:

I recently purchased Streamline 4.0 and have tried to convert a psd logo into ai.

The results are much too detailed, with anchor points everywhere.
Are there any tutorials about adjusting the Streamline to make it work? I couldn’t find one on the Adobe site and Google didn’t seem to help.
Is there anything better? Any suggestions on desensitizing Streamline?
Thanks,

Dennis

Wait and behold. It seems the new Illustrator (CS2), I think it will be published beginning of April, has a very good trace tool.

We will have to wait and see.

For now the pen tool is the best solution, in my experience. —
Peter

On 3/26/05 6:50 PM, in article
kzm1e.4966$, "Dennis Hughes"
spewed:

Jeff,

Thanks for the lead to your web site. Looks like the tutorial will solve my issues as much as they can be.

Dennis

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in
message On 3/26/05 3:12 PM, in article
umj1e.5491$, "Dennis Hughes"
spewed:

I recently purchased Streamline 4.0 and have tried to convert a psd logo into ai.

The results are much too detailed, with anchor points everywhere.
Are there any tutorials about adjusting the Streamline to make it work? I couldn’t find one on the Adobe site and Google didn’t seem to help.
Is there anything better? Any suggestions on desensitizing Streamline?
Thanks,

Dennis

I have a PDF concerning my use of Streamline available here: http://www.wizardofdraws.com/main/newsletter.htm
Email me if you like for anything that confuses you.

My pleasure. Remember that the higher quality original image, the more fidelity your conversion will be capable of. A low res, 72 dpi image isn’t hardly worth bothering with unless it’s a very large image in terms of physical size.
I converted a large image once that had pretty detailed pine trees in the background and a lot of crosshatching for shading. Streamline choked on the number of paths it had to create, although I suspect that with a bit more memory, I could have overcome that. As it was, the level of detail wasn’t that important to the final product so I was able to lower the tolerance of the conversion and make it work.
—
Jeff ‘The Wizard of Draws’ Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.wizardofdraws.com

More Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.cartoonclipart.com

Jeff,

I notice on your nicely done write up that you don’t mention going into the Options | Color/B&W Setup.

I used that since this is a color logo. I made the changes in Posterization to limited colors and max for edge smoothing, and set Complexity to fewer paths and checked the reduce detail.

It worked perfectly. Well, almost, the colors are a bit off, but that is the easiest thing to change.

Thanks again,

Dennis

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in
message On 3/26/05 6:50 PM, in article
kzm1e.4966$, "Dennis Hughes"
spewed:

Jeff,

Thanks for the lead to your web site. Looks like the tutorial will solve my
issues as much as they can be.

Dennis

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in
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On 3/26/05 3:12 PM, in article
umj1e.5491$, "Dennis Hughes"
spewed:

I recently purchased Streamline 4.0 and have tried to convert a psd logo into ai.

The results are much too detailed, with anchor points everywhere.
Are there any tutorials about adjusting the Streamline to make it work? I
couldn’t find one on the Adobe site and Google didn’t seem to help.
Is there anything better? Any suggestions on desensitizing Streamline?
Thanks,

Dennis

I have a PDF concerning my use of Streamline available here: http://www.wizardofdraws.com/main/newsletter.htm
Email me if you like for anything that confuses you.

My pleasure. Remember that the higher quality original image, the more fidelity your conversion will be capable of. A low res, 72 dpi image isn’t hardly worth bothering with unless it’s a very large image in terms of physical size.
I converted a large image once that had pretty detailed pine trees in the background and a lot of crosshatching for shading. Streamline choked on the number of paths it had to create, although I suspect that with a bit more memory, I could have overcome that. As it was, the level of detail wasn’t that important to the final product so I was able to lower the tolerance of the conversion and make it work.
—
Jeff ‘The Wizard of Draws’ Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic

On 3/26/05 10:38 PM, in article
aVp1e.5699$, "Dennis Hughes"
spewed:

Jeff,

I notice on your nicely done write up that you don’t mention going into the Options | Color/B&W Setup.

I used that since this is a color logo. I made the changes in Posterization to limited colors and max for edge smoothing, and set Complexity to fewer paths and checked the reduce detail.

It worked perfectly. Well, almost, the colors are a bit off, but that is the easiest thing to change.

Thanks again,

Dennis

Dennis,

In the newsletter/tutorials, I am trying to focus on just creating cartoons from scratch rather than using the programs on existing artwork. Sticking just with what I know and all that.
I’m glad you were able to use it to your advantage.
Regards,
—
Jeff ‘The Wizard of Draws’ Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.wizardofdraws.com

More Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.cartoonclipart.com