vector a photo "sunflower"

[Hummingbird]

after hours of trying numbers presets ticking boxs all kinds of things to see if i can vector a photo to a good quailty image,i found a way in the tracing options box that traces a photo quite well and in colour as well
i found a photo of a sunflower and tried to vector it as best i could
i would look to know how you can get a photo vectored real good by
only using the tracing box options

if you think you can find a better way then "copy the sunflower photo" and try and vector it

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by only using the tracing option box !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no pencil or brush work

report back to biorust H.Q and please post a thumbnail of it

biorust tutorial on image tracing

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

http://forums.biorust.com/illustrati...lustrator.html (help needed with vectors (illustrator))


nice one andy

[Hummingbird]

this is way to vector a photo

go to object>live trace>tracing options

preset: colour 16
tick resample:120px

i've improved the detail of the vector a little bit more

[Hummingbird]

this time try

mode:colour
max colours:256
resample:150px
pathfitting:10px

a lot more detail and much more like the photo

[Hummingbird]

this time the vector came out real high quailty
use a extra feature in the tracing options box
called "blur"

it blurs the image before the trace,and help's to reduce small artifacts and smooths jagged edges

mode:colour
max colours:256
blur:2px
resample:600

the pic is the photo and the second pic is the vector

[Hummingbird]

i'm going to make a tutorial about this and try and keep it simple as possible
i think it will be much needed

[notjustgraphics]

Thats stellar work!

I look forward to the tutorial! This will come in very handy!

+rep!

Mike.

[Hummingbird]

i've finished the tutorial on how to vector a photo
you can find it here
http://forums.biorust.com/tutorial-s...tor-photo.html