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After playing a little with Photoshop CS2, I’ve now spent a couple minutes checking out Illustrator CS2 to see what is new. A pretty cool new feature, is “Live Trace”. It converts images into vector objects and does a pretty good job of it. I seem to recall a really old Adobe product that use to do this many years ago. I remember trying it out and ending up with pathetic results. I went to flickr and found a random image to use as a test. (original here. I used the largest original version.) I cropped out the drawing thingy out of the photo, imported into Illustrator and simply clicked the “Live Trace” button. Here is the result. The image on the left is just a bitmap image, the one on the right is vector based. You can do all sort of tweaks and adjust the number of colors that are used to generate the vector version. Click the image for the larger version.
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Live trace automates the design of strong graphic screenprinted like images, while enabling fortune 500 companies with good design to ruin it with crappy images. They look like a posterized filter. I opened up a crap news paper and a yellow and black sprint ad fell out. The add used clean and minimal typography, brilliant color, great layout. What stood out as being the odd ball was a live traced picture of a couple using their phone. The photo was jagged, rough, harsh, duo-toned, graphic… everything that screen printing is great at! But sprint is not a screen printed brand. Be prepared to see alot of harsh, crappy, out of place, graphic photos on brands everywhere for the next several years.
Comment by steve 05.05.06 @ 7:09 am