![]() This could probably be avoided with the ‘ignore white’ setting. With illustrator, the traced image has a large background object that needs to be removed.I’m using illustrator and I haven’t figured out how to do this yet. These can be enhanced with a pixel editing tool such as photoshop or affinity designer. Images with tiny black lines (squirtle) don’t work very well without some preprocessing.Images with heavy black lines convert and look best (example: bulbasaur).Export to GIF file (or any similar format, GIF just makes sense due to the 1-bit image). The Auto Trace has only two slider controls for customizing. Use Eraser and Pencil to clean up the raster lines. There are several vector apps that have an image trace feature, including Vectornators Auto Trace. The SSFC logo was also an svg to start with, I thought it’d be easier to work with but it ended up taking a lot longer to prepare the image. Use Adjustment Layer > Threshold to get a black/white 1-bit image.Adobe Photoshop, Inkscape, Sketch, Affinity Designer, Gravit Designer. Live, responsive and fast, even on the most complex docs. In the logo, I scraped these off with a knife, making it look very irregular. The line art generator app can be used to convert photo to outline and download. ![]() I’m not sure the technical terms, but the heavier engrave leaves tiny hair-like fibers that are very prone to being scraped off, causing blemishes in the resulting piece. You would have to trace it in Designer with the Pen Tool, we dont have an auto-trace feature. When engraving large areas (in the Sounders logo) it’s best to use the light engrave setting on proofgrade. How to vectorise image/jpeg in affinity photo/Designer 2.Here’s some of the things I learned with this process: There’s a few steps to converting the images, and couple of gotchas that I encountered along the way.
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