From sketch to vectors, which method do you use?

[Casey Burns]

yeah, do that, and i'll tell you what settings i used.

[S.Blake]

sure..

[S.Blake]

email it to me.. im off for 4 days! It's my dads, My sons, and My bday.. so I took some time off to chill. I got time to kill.. in between drinking rhum cokes and reading marvel 1602!

[NeroInferno]

Here the untraced part of the sketch:

http://www.mafarka.net/ALTRO/untraced_part.pdf

here the partially traced part of the sketch (using just Brush tool in Illustrator, I don't like the result!):

http://www.mafarka.net/ALTRO/traced_part.pdf

Thanks!
Fabio

[NeroInferno]

Originally Posted by S.Blake

email it to me.. im off for 4 days! It's my dads, My sons, and My bday.. so I took some time off to chill. I got time to kill.. in between drinking rhum cokes and reading marvel 1602!

Thanks Blake,
I'm emailing the files to s****@***sterpress.ca!

Thanks a lot, really!
Fabio

[Casey Burns]

now you can delete points and clean it up as you like.
but it really is easier to start with a cleaner piece of art and scan that.
it's auto TRACE, not auto INK.
i played with the threshold in photoshop and converted to grayscale before opening it in illustrator.

[NeroInferno]

Originally Posted by Casey Burns

now you can delete points and clean it up as you like.
but it really is easier to start with a cleaner piece of art and scan that.
it's auto TRACE, not auto INK.
i played with the threshold in photoshop and converted to grayscale before opening it in illustrator.

Mhmh, thanks a lot Casey.

The point is I'm sure with Live Trace I cannot achieve WELL defined lines..isn't like trace manually totally and add some brushes to the end..right?

Thanks,
Fabio

ps. do you used CS3?

[Casey Burns]

yeah, this was CS3, but CS2 wasn't much different if i recall correctly.
it really does come down to having a good drawing to start with.
editing the live trace is a matter of pulling points around, not using brushes.

[NeroInferno]

okay, I'm trying inking it and rescan it.

Thanks for now
Fabio

[Casey Burns]

do a clean inking job, erase the pencils, scan grayscale, threshold, and live trace will give you great results.