help needed with vectors (illustrator)

[ozzbaldo]

Hi!
I have this photo that i need to convert to vector with illustrator and i don't know how, i tryed with Live trace (photoshop»illustrator) and the result is so bad. i want the vector to be just like the original photo. can anyone help pelase??!!

[notjustgraphics]

Vector images are not well suited to displaying photo-quality images. Vector images are comprised of shapes of a solid color that make up an illustration type image. Bitmap or Raster images are comprised of individual pixels each with it's own color and transparency properties allowing for much more complex images and photographs.

Sorry to ruin your hopes and dreams.

Mike.

[sethcapitulo]

you can make it look like the orig if you use the Mesh Tool...check out google for tutorials...and there is a member who does it with the mesh tool...you can do it with the pen tool if you try; check out Soundrome.co.uk for vector art tutorial...try also melissaclifton.com...

[Hummingbird]

Originally Posted by ozzbaldo

Hi!
I have this photo that i need to convert to vector with illustrator and i don't know how, i tryed with Live trace (photoshop»illustrator) and the result is so bad. i want the vector to be just like the original photo. can anyone help pelase??!!

this is the nearest you are going to get to vector your pic,

open pic in illustrator
go object>live trace>tracing options
go to preset and choose colour 6
then click trace
this is the best i could get it maybe you have tried that allready
i would love to find out or a way to vector a pic so it come out perfect,
also try this new tutorial if you don't know much about the basic's of image tracing
http://forums.biorust.com/tutorial-s...-tutorial.html (illustrator"image tracing"tutorial)

[tamlin]

Hey Andy - that's still pretty damn impressive! I can see I'm going to have to figure out this Live Trace malarkey...

[Hummingbird]

thanks tamlin,i've set my self a goal to become a master in all things to do with live tracing,i will spend endless hours on the internet learning all the resources that i can,then i'll report back to "biorust H.Q" for briefing "agent:live trace andy"

biorust tutorial on image tracing

http://forums.biorust.com/tutorial-s...-tutorial.html (illustrator"image tracing"tutorial)

vector a photo "sunflower"
http://forums.biorust.com/illustrati...sunflower.html (vector a photo "sunflower")

[Jolt]

Actually you can do a really great job of converting this to vector, but you can't do it with a click of a few buttons. it takes work. Drawing rectangles and paths then filling them. It's actually pretty easy to mimic photo-real art when tracing you jsut have to do it manually rather than the automated way.