Trace Image Issues

Itsa_Secret · Post by **Itsa_Secret** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:54 pm

It seems that every time I ask a question to solve a problem, another problem arrises. But I thank you all for helping me so much.

This time's problem:

I make an image in photoshop. It's a simple black lined figure on a white background, and it's not small or overly detailed. I import it to Anime Studio. I ask the program to trace it, and every time it does, it over simplifies the image to absurdity. I've tried adjusting the threshold and other specs, but everytime it turns a very simple black-lined characture into a washed out collection of blurred lines. I thougth at one time that reducing the image before tracing might have been affecting the tracing, but it did the same thing when the image was original size.

I know I could just draw the image in Anime Studio and save some trouble, but photoshop allows me to manipulate the image more, and I didn't think it should matter once the image was transformed into a jpeg. Any suggestions? Thank you all for your time and effort.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:23 pm

Just a guess: what's your project size in AS? Try a bigger one and see that the PS image is still a bit bigger than that.

Itsa_Secret · Post by **Itsa_Secret** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:21 pm

And I would change the project size in the Project Settings? If so, I tried that and it didn't make a difference.

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:07 am

Try Autotrace online

http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/autotrace/tracer.pl

Make sure that you click 'Trace font centerline.'

The AS tracing does outlines (useless for AS animation), not centerline.

Dale