anyone up for some ghetto postering

faunty · Post by **faunty** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:42 am

Ya, so i've been playing with adobe illustrators super fun livetrace filter and came up with a diddy based off a magda set:

i wanna make it something more but a little time of play is fun

Wilf · Post by **Wilf** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:31 pm

I like that. Nice use of colours. Bloody hell I sound like an art critic.

Zinthek · Post by **Zinthek** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:06 pm

It's not bad, but live trace isn't very professional. You could get a much nicer image if you make the vector drawing by hand (and with that I mean with the pen-tool). But offcourse you're not making commercial material here so nice stuff

Renze · Post by **Renze** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:17 pm

Live trace works best with a black & white bitmap (only black and white). Try making the image grayscale in Photoshop, then play around with brightness/contrast (so you get a very high contrast image that is black and white only) and then change the image mode to a bitmap with 50% threshold. Then import it into Illustrator and do a live trace. Voila, one professional looking vector drawing

Robot Criminal · Post by **Robot Criminal** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:24 pm

Zinthek wrote:It's not bad, but live trace isn't very professional. You could get a much nicer image if you make the vector drawing by hand (and with that I mean with the pen-tool). But offcourse you're not making commercial material here so nice stuff