November 20, 2007

Vectorize your images

VectorMagic, an online tool from some smart people at Stanford, will trace your raster image (an image made of pixels, like your digital photos are) and convert it to a vector image (an image made of smooth shapes and curves with hard edges that is completely scalable.) Here's my test. Via Photojojo.

15 comments:

  1. lgaumondNovember 20, 2007 at 10:35 AM

    That's awesome for those who aren't blessed with Illustrator. I'm going to share that tip. Thanks!

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  2. all over the mapNovember 20, 2007 at 11:43 AM

    I love online tools. Good stuff. thanks for the link to Photojojo. All of these things are new to me so I'm like a kid in a candy store filled with excitement.
    xo

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  3. AnonymousNovember 20, 2007 at 12:12 PM

    Maybe it's because I don't use it correctly, but I've never been able to get Illustrator's autotrace to work that well. This is *very* cool! Thanks for the tip.

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  4. Atticus PfNovember 20, 2007 at 12:37 PM

    Ummm, I invented this like infinity years ago.

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  5. Jessica JonesNovember 20, 2007 at 1:00 PM

    Right. Just like Al Gore invented the internet.

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  6. Erin Lang NorrisNovember 20, 2007 at 5:32 PM

    thank you for sharing! this is perfect for me, since i don't have any cool editing programs.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 20, 2007 at 6:45 PM

    thanks for sharing this great resource! i like drawing in photoshop better than illustrator, and this looks like a neat and simple way to get the nice quality that i'm looking for. i supposed i could just learn how to draw in illustrator, but you know what they say about teaching an old dog new tricks...

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  8. beccaNovember 20, 2007 at 10:35 PM

    interesting. it actually looks better than most live traces.

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  9. JesseNovember 21, 2007 at 3:38 AM

    Thanks! This looks really useful!

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  10. AnonymousNovember 21, 2007 at 6:57 AM

    Two words: Thank you. You have no idea how useful this program will be for my design. Keep them coming :)

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  11. SelyaNovember 21, 2007 at 2:41 PM

    Thank you very much for share! very useful!

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  12. RobynNovember 22, 2007 at 9:38 AM

    Very neat! Thank you for sharing!

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  13. AnonymousNovember 26, 2007 at 1:05 PM

    Oh how cool! This is something I have been looking for for a while. Thank you for sharing!

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  14. FrancesNovember 26, 2007 at 7:20 PM

    Ah, this will come in very handy for this year's holiday cards, which I drew by hand (and was about to re-draw in Illustrator)!

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  15. LindseyNovember 27, 2007 at 8:53 AM

    This is great! My friends are constantly sending me things to convert over to vectors... now I can just send them here!!

    Thanks for the tip!

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