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- samfishercell, on 10/12/2007, -8/+84This would be neat....if it was actually vector art (which it's not). Plus, who does vectoring in flash? If you want to learn vectoring, just steer clear of this tutorial, you'll thank yourself in the end.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Next weeks tutorial? Remove redeye from photos using Winamp!
- Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42It would be neat if it didn't plain suck...
This tutorial is only some basic photoshop along with some basic ugly *****. No vector involved. - pondster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+38LOL - I agree - totally useless - its idiots like this that make my job so much harder.
"so using Photoshop, open the image and go to Brightness/Contrast and set the contrast to 70%"
Sorry dude, your making a silouette, not a vector - try outputting that at 6ft and see what happens to it. I make signs on the side, and vector graphics are the ONLY type of graphics you can feed into a plotter - anything else and it will see it as one bix square. If you really want to get into vectors, try the inkscape listed below or corel draw. Illustrator is excellent but it has a high learning curve, and if you really want something cool, find a app called Flexi - its a sign specific program and is essentially illustrator on steroids! - wallclimber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31FTA: "Alright, so we're going to switch into Flash.... err... Illustrator if you've got it. I don't own Illustrator so I do my vector work all in Flash, and so, these instructions reflect that. I would imagine the processes I use in Flash are relatively the same in Illustrator."
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Puh-leeeeze. (sigh) No. They are not "relatively the same".
samfishercell has it right..."steer clear" - defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Wow. This comment from the page makes my stomach uneasy.
"There are alot of vector brushes floating around, check deviantart.com. Brushes make life easy.."
If this is what's going on in your head, you are not an artist. - wallclimber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26By the way, if someone would like to learn to use a vector drawing program, but can't afford Ado. Illustrator, try InkScape. It's free. Very nice program, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Works on Linux, Windows, and Macs. InkScape deserves a lot of credit and support for designing a beautiful piece of software.
http://www.inkscape.org/index.php?lang=
Lots of good tutorials too. - bontaq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Let me try to explain this to you as best as I can;
This is the internet. - wmarcello, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@helusay
Wrong. Flash can display bitmap graphics as well as vector graphics. If I import a photo of myself into Flash, it is still made up of pixels. Zoom in on it and all you'll get is a bunch of pixels. Vector graphics are defined by mathematical equations and can be scaled infinitely without losing quality. - djames82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14if you can submit crap like this on here...let me submit my own tutorial..."How to draw a straight line in Microsoft Paint with colors!"
- MisterMichaud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA! This is NOT a vector image. Nice try, though. It "looks" like it might be vector art, but try blowing it up to billboard size and those guns will be a pixelated mess.
If I sculpted a block of cheese into Michelangelo's David, would that cheese suddenly be considered a marble sculpture, based on the fact that it "looks" like a marble sculpture?
I'm hungry. - defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Flash vector is worlds apart from normal vector drawing you get in illustrator or fireworks. In this tutorial, he is treating the word "vector" as a style and not a art medium. The only thing he *kinda* uses vector for is those cliche tentacle things. Everything else is just photoshop. Not to mention the final product is anything but groovy or excellent. Like the above said, if you want to learn vector, stay away from this tutorial!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Ugly attitude, lives inside garbage can. Reported as a grouchy *****.
- monological, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The non-vector bashing aside, I've always wanted to know how to put together my guns and tentacles. They've both been sitting around for ages gathering dust and I'm glad someone finally gave me direction and inspiration
- LexisNexis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12helusay: "it is saved as a Flash file"
Saving it as a flash file wont turn the PNG he put in there into a vector graphic. Why don't you go read the article then "talk crap". - greenamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Trendy internet crapola.
- schleufer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Christ, another ***** idiot that uses Photoshop to do vector art.
Inaccurate, inaccurate, inaccurate.
I do a metric assload of vector art, and I wouldn't even dream of using Photoshop or it's ilk in a tutorial. - ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Report as inaccurate, "excellent vector art", but it isn't vector :S
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9wtf are you talking about.
- citrivium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Maybe it's because it really is a ***** article in the first place?
You want real flash and photoshop tutorials? try spoono.com
You want to see real illustrator/Corel tutorials ? http://www.sketchpad.net/illustrator.htm - wayniethep00p, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'll have to agree that this tutorial does not even touch the surface of what vector graphics is about. Adobe Illustrator is an extremely powerful program that simply cannot be explained in 13 steps.
- gengisPhat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8As soon as he exported the .png it was no longer a vector graphic. You try and scale that file up and your resolution will go to crap.
- domomike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Even though he's an idiot. What he says is true. The last thing we need is a tutorial to get more people to create this overly used, very unoriginal art style.
- devoinregress, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yes it is possible in Photoshop but you don't have anywhere near the power of Illustrator.
- schleufer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I use Macromedia Flash all the time, and I gotta agree, Flash is NOTHING like Illustrator. Flash isn't even like other vector program on the planet for that matter.
While a lot of great looking stuff can be created with Flash, it isn't a suitable replacement for Illustrator or CorelDRAW. - alanspach, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11vector art is created in illustrator not photoshop. You are confused and this is lame
- domomike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Photoshop... To do "vector art?"
Are you kidding me??? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"try InkScape. It's free. Very nice program, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format."
a-fridgin'-men, and I might add, the only Vector tool I use. Professionally.
PS All you have to do to take a png/jpg and vectorize it is import it into Inkscape, and choose Path-$gt;Trace Bitmap. In the dialog, I have fair luck with selecting "Multiple Scanning" and either color or monochrome at scans of 6 to 12. This will produce a layered vector trace object in place of the image. Select it and hit Ctrl-Shift-G to ungroup the layers. You can now grab and drag layers away until you come up with one in the silhouette of the shape you want, or you can save several layers, dink with the colors, edit the nodes, Boolean the layers with each other.....yada. - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Vector is possible in Photoshop, too.
Just create a shape layer or vector mask. - gerld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6you have got to be kidding me.
- janeoblivian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php/blog/comments/illustration_from_sketch_to_finish_part_three/
She's got a couple videos of her creating a vector image from beginning to end. It really helped me get past the initial "huh?" feeling when learning Illustrator. - helusay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@omgwut
now THAT is some funny ***** - sonnysavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@isayx3
That's exactly what I was thinking... I'd like someone to take the time to do a side-by-side of the two. I'd be surprised if Illustrator won out. Besides that, I find Corel's UI much more friendly (i.e. there aren't a bunch of menus and dialogs in the way of your canvas). - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Seriously.. I was reading this for a minute, and immediately came back here to mark it as lame and inaccurate.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.inkscape.org/
Worth it just for the galleries, even if you use Illustrator instead of Inkscape.
#include "One Of These Days, I Really Should Make Some Tutorials" speech - isayx3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Though CorelDraw is easy, Illustrator is by far superior if you just take a little bit more time to learn it."
More people use illustrator, but it is not far superior. Corel can anything illustrator can do. In fact it can do several thing illustrator can't..like multiple page layouts, control of indvidual font letters without having to convert to curves, ect..
Coreldraw is a highly underrated program. - totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6uh..wtf? its...vector-like? ok, then.
- NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Since SVG is not a universally accepted format that can be used across all browsers,"
Neither is flash - you need a plug-in.
Get the SVG plug-in for IE at http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/mainframed.html - Kailash.Nadh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Right. I second you.
- ingusmat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Because as people have said above, its inaccurate tutorials like these that make actual graphic designers who work with actual vector graphics' jobs so much harder on a daily basis.
If someone were to hand me this file to use at my work, it would easilly add about an hour and a half of bezier tracing before I could output into separations, where as if they had started in Illustrator, Freehand or even god forbid CorelDRAW, I could have seps done in no time, thereby saving them a hefty art charge.
It aint vector, and that matters cause it aint scaleable and it aint separatable for screens or plates. And yes. That's a big deal. - artman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You don't need Flash to convert bitmaps into vector. You can either use Illustrator CS2's tracing tool or if you want to save money get Silhouette.
http://www.silhouetteonline.com/
I stopped reading right after,
"Alright, so we're going to switch into Flash.... err... Illustrator if you've got it. I don't own Illustrator so I do my vector work all in Flash, and so, these instructions reflect that. I would imagine the processes I use in Flash are relatively the same in Illustrator."
/they are not! - NikZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm not spamming (please note, these aren't my sites or articles), but
here's a *real* tutorial for some *truly* fantastic vector art: http://www.creativebush.com/gmeshtutorial/
Which, incidentally, has been Digg submitted here: http://digg.com/design/How_to_make_Realistic_Vector_Artwork_From_Photos
And, unfortunately, did not receive the attention it rightly deserves (ie: a polar opposite of this submission).
Here's another nice example of real vector on deviant, with progressive screen shots:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26905706/
Again, none of those sites are mine. I wish! - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5OMG dude I googled for one of those cuz Paint is sooooo hard.
- jbus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3For those of you into REAL vector graphics there is a great open source, vector graphics program that is free on Linux & Mac and pretty cheap on Windows. It's called Xara Xtreme. It's in rapid development and it rivals Adobe Illustrator in capabilities but is a lot easier to use and much, much faster. http://www.xaralx.org/
There's even talk of merging its features with Inkscape's features in the near future! - Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I've used both CorelDraw and Illustrator for making vector graphics for use in plotting. Though CorelDraw is easy, Illustrator is by far superior if you just take a little bit more time to learn it.
- waveman216, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I could train a monkey to do this crap. Get with it and do some ACTUAL vector work...
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Someone submit an inkscape tutorial.. I'm hungry for some more inkscape knowledge.
- noneloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is not available for the mac.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so vexel is imitation? how lame and lazy can you get? pull out your pen tool and get busy.
- pondster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"For starters, this -is- vector art."
Do some research, you can not make a vector out of a raster image! In my job, I deal with vectors all the time, when I worked full time as a graphic designer for a sign shop, thats all we used, people like you would send me a raster image saved as an eps and call it a vector, this is totally wrong!
If you do your research, you will see that a vector is a series of primatives derived from mathematical equations that represent the image. Your dealing with points and arcs, NOT pixels.
Simple test, if you can use the eraser tool on it, it is NOT a vector.
Or and for those of you willing to learn, you CAN create a vector out of a rastor, it just takes MANY hours of work, corel and flexi have a trace tool that works wonders and you can end up doing some really cool stuff with that. -
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