VECTORING! from a Photo HOW?

[xsjado-man]

just wondering if anyone knows where i can find a Tutorial on how to do Vectoring using Photoshop? theres tons of pop art but cant seem to find Vector. any infor will help lots thanks. its just for a few portraits iv taken.

 

[swanseamale47]

I'm not sure where your going here, photoshop does support some vector (maths) and raster (pixel) The pen tool is a vector tool (paths and shapes etc) if you check out the help topic in photoshop it will give you more info. Wayne

 

[xsjado-man]

erm like pop art but all blocks of colour. is it not called vectoring.

 

[CT]

Sounds like it's pop art you mean?

Couple of tutorials here...

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-warholphoto.html

Then there's a plugin filter for Photoshop from Alien Skin called Snap Art, which you'd no doubt need to pay for.

http://designorati.com/articles/t1/...skin’s-snap-art-does-what-photoshop-can’t.php

 

[eyeofskye]

Adobe Streamline used to be the program for creating vector art out of photographs and was quite good at the job. From a quick search it looks as though its features are now incorporated into Adobe Illustrator at considerably greater cost. IIRC Corel Suite could do this but don't quote me on it.

 

[Gnaser]

The process could loosely be called vectoring I suppose but I think what you'r really after is bitmap tracing. All it basically means is you're having some software draw out a photographic image for you so it's formed from bezier curves.

A quick tool for doing this would be flash. A more accurate but more difficult one would be illustrator. When I say difficult, I merely mean there are more options. It isn't actually difficult just more eventualities to contend with.

 

[Bolerus]

sorry im not familair with the terms, your not talking about using a displacement map fom you picture then appying that onto a texture to give it the shape of your original picture?