Converting Hand Drawn Art Into Vector Art?

Just wondering:

How would one convert hand drawn art into computer vector art?
I own Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop … I’m somewhat experienced with the programs, but there’s ALLOT I don’t know about them. Is there a way to do it with these programs, other than the ‘trace’ tool?

Is there a program that does this easily?

Other than the programs I have or another ‘perhaps’ expensive program, is there any other way to acheive this?

What I want to do:

Draw my own art (let’s just say a pumpkin for now) – be able to take that art and give it effects such as I can do in Illustrator.
All suggestions and information gladly welcomed!
Dee

Just wondering:

How would one convert hand drawn art into computer vector art?
I own Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop … I’m somewhat experienced with the programs, but there’s ALLOT I don’t know about them. Is there a way

it with these programs, other than the ‘trace’ tool?

Is there a program that does this easily?

Other than the programs I have or another ‘perhaps’ expensive program, is there any other way to acheive this?

What I want to do:

Draw my own art (let’s just say a pumpkin for now) – be able to take that art and give it effects such as I can do in Illustrator.
All suggestions and information gladly welcomed!
Dee

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Just wondering:

How would one convert hand drawn art into computer vector art?
I own Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop … I’m somewhat experienced with the programs, but there’s ALLOT I don’t know about them. Is there a way to do it with these programs, other than the ‘trace’ tool?

Is there a program that does this easily?

Other than the programs I have or another ‘perhaps’ expensive program, is there any other way to acheive this?

What I want to do:

Draw my own art (let’s just say a pumpkin for now) – be able to take that art and give it effects such as I can do in Illustrator.
All suggestions and information gladly welcomed!
Dee

Hi Dee,

Illustrator CS2 has a feature called ‘Live Trace’ which does exactly what you want.
Works pretty good. If you have CS2, it’s all in the help files. But basicly, you import a photo/drawing into Illustrator (place/copy-paste) and hit the live trace button.
There are some presets or you can make your own settings.
H.

"Dee Dee" schreef in bericht

Just wondering:

How would one convert hand drawn art into computer vector art?
I own Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop … I’m somewhat experienced with the programs, but there’s ALLOT I don’t know about them. Is there a way to do
it with these programs, other than the ‘trace’ tool?

Is there a program that does this easily?

Other than the programs I have or another ‘perhaps’ expensive program, is there any other way to acheive this?

What I want to do:

Draw my own art (let’s just say a pumpkin for now) – be able to take that art and give it effects such as I can do in Illustrator.
All suggestions and information gladly welcomed!
Dee

Hi Dee,

Illustrator CS2 has a feature called ‘Live Trace’ which does exactly what you want.
Works pretty good. If you have CS2, it’s all in the help files. But basicly, you import a photo/drawing into Illustrator (place/copy-paste) and hit the live trace button.
There are some presets or you can make your own settings.
H.

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:30:39 GMT, "HTech"
wrote:

"Dee Dee" schreef in bericht

Just wondering:

How would one convert hand drawn art into computer vector art?
I own Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop … I’m somewhat experienced with the
programs, but there’s ALLOT I don’t know about them. Is there a way to do
it with these programs, other than the ‘trace’ tool?

Is there a program that does this easily?

Other than the programs I have or another ‘perhaps’ expensive program, is
there any other way to acheive this?

What I want to do:

Draw my own art (let’s just say a pumpkin for now) – be able to take that
art and give it effects such as I can do in Illustrator.
All suggestions and information gladly welcomed!
Dee

Hi Dee,

Illustrator CS2 has a feature called ‘Live Trace’ which does exactly what you want.
Works pretty good. If you have CS2, it’s all in the help files. But basicly, you import a photo/drawing into Illustrator (place/copy-paste)
and hit the live trace button.
There are some presets or you can make your own settings.
H.

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Dee Dee wrote:

Just wondering:

How would one convert hand drawn art into computer vector art?
I own Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop … I’m somewhat experienced with the
programs, but there’s ALLOT I don’t know about them. Is there a way

to do

it with these programs, other than the ‘trace’ tool?

Is there a program that does this easily?

Other than the programs I have or another ‘perhaps’ expensive program, is
there any other way to acheive this?

What I want to do:

Draw my own art (let’s just say a pumpkin for now) – be able to take that
art and give it effects such as I can do in Illustrator.
All suggestions and information gladly welcomed!
Dee

Depending on what you expect the outcome to be, it’s not always a great idea to automate tracing. LiveTrace, I’ve heard, works pretty well, but you will always end up with awkward shapes.

I much prefer tracing by hand if the output is meant to be a "graphic interpretation," or logo. Sure, it’s time consuming, but anything worth doing is worth doing right. Right?

—
Aaron

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