The Corel Product is "CorelTrace" but I think it's only shipped as a utility
with their suites. but it's the balls. They also have a product "Corel
Knockout" used to create alpha channel masks from complex images (like a
mask for flung hair for example) that is, also, the balls.
The main problem is that none of these tools work as well as you might like
depending on the source material. Too fine a trace and you've got literally
millions of nodes and thousands of objects and you simply can't keep track
of them. Too loose a trace and you get only the barest, minimalist
impression of the original.
One tip tho': spend as much time working on your original as on the trace.
That's key. Lower the number of colors as much as possible, but never
introduce dithering (it'll kill you). Up the contrast as much as you can.
Posterization filters help a lot if you can live with the loss of quality.
What you're trying to do is get the orginal to be a "vector-like" as
possible: connected layers of solid color. You can then go in later to
create blends across those layers (based on the original) to get back some
of the depth. This is always easier than dealing with nine hundred objects
making up a forehead.
Jim Davis
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From: Bushy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:10 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: OT: Graphic Software
I'll take a look. I think they still make it.
Thanks
I was wondering if Corel did it. I hate Corel though.
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From: Larry C. Lyons
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:46:27 -0500
Don't know whether Adobe still makes it but they used to have one
called Streamline that did that.
larry
>Hi,
>
>Is there a software package that will take a graphic (psd, jpg etc.)
>flattened or with layers and create an "outline" to be pulled into a
>vector based program like
>Illustrator for finer editing?
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