Cleaning up art for livetrace?

[Lonesome Cowboy Bill]

Does anybody have a link for that post on cleaning up art for live trace, from last month or so?

[scrojo]

Does anybody have a link for that post on cleaning up art for live trace, from last month or so?

don't kno about the post but i've allways just used the stamp filter in PS to get what i want.

[swampviking]

I think Comic Sans lies somewhere in the answer.

[loco]

Everytime I tried it it never seemed to work

VectorMagic | Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion Online

-loco

[loco]

I just tried it again and it worked,...pretty cool

-loco

[Papercuts]

i tried it but how does it do anything different than what livetrace does?

[loco]

i tried it but how does it do anything different than what livetrace does?

It does if you don't have Livetrace. I still have Illustrator CS at home and at work

-loco

[Lonesome Cowboy Bill]

If it jogs anybodies' memory, it was about cleaning up scans of penciling-live trace is way easier than StreamLine ever was but I wanna get my scans as clean as possible, to cut down on the crud that creeps in...

[GIGART]

I may have written what I do...I draw the line art in black pen on board. I scan that into photoshop. Then I use levels and make it all black and white. Then I gaussian blur the illustration, so that it blurs the image, losing a lot of the little bumps...then I use levels again..this pulls it in and gives you a clean line. Then I bit map tiff and save...open in Illustrator...makes for a really clean trace...Just watch how much you blur...so that you don't lose a lot of the detail that you would want...I draw kinda big and usually blur at about 3.2 or so...

[Lonesome Cowboy Bill]

Awesomeness-I think my big prob was that I was using pencil, just an HB and between that, natural smudging and my lack of motor skills, it was causing me more troubles than I needed...