Scanned inputs, 7 vector layer at one time.
What you need:
Anime studio (not smith micro, but the one from Japan)
http://animestudio.jp/free.html
Photoshop
Vextractor
http://www.vextrasoft.com/?source=vextractor
Draw in 7 colors black, red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta. Each color will be a layer.
Scan in and import to Anime studio, JP version.
Once in anime studio JP version, encode to PSD.
Open in photoshop and save each layer separate color. As bit, jpg or png? chose one.
Open each color layer with Vextractor and and vector the layer using (options - centerline) (vector as drawing and black and white 1bit)
Export to AI and then import to AS.
notes:
Anime studio JP is free
Vextractor is 100 dollars but demo leaves to vector water mark that can be deleted once in AS. If your using this method a lot, then I think I would just buy the program.
And if you don’t have photoshop elements then lift the rock and get out.
Dale
Scanned inputs, 7 vector layer at one time, Very cool!!!
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Thanks heaps for posting that Dale.
I look forward to trying it out.
Out of interest, how are you finding it in terms of the number of points you get and so on? I'm not as interested in multi layers with different colours - but the idea of taking drawn art and throwing it straight into AS without having to trace with the point tool sounds promising.
Just wondering how much clean up's involved?
I look forward to trying it out.
Out of interest, how are you finding it in terms of the number of points you get and so on? I'm not as interested in multi layers with different colours - but the idea of taking drawn art and throwing it straight into AS without having to trace with the point tool sounds promising.
Just wondering how much clean up's involved?
If your doing only one color Vextractor does a good job of tracing consistence lines. All most no clean up using the settings (options - centerline) (vector as drawing and black and white 1bit) . They need to be drawn thick enough that the Vectoractor can tell the difference between lines and garbage. The number of points can be slightly adjusted by Vextractor settings.
Sending one color into Anime studio JP and then to Photoshop will eliminate all most of the garbage that scanned images have because Anime studio JP has one of the best tracing tools and you can go in with the eraser tool in Anime studio or Photoshop. But is almost un-necessary.
Over all this works better on good scanned images.
The only way is to try it for yourself.
One more thing, why would not want to use more than one color?
Let say your drawing a background, the road is black, the houses are red, the trees are green, the car is blue and it's windows are yellow.
scan the image, used the method to separate the colors with Anime studio JP and photoshop. Then use Vectactor turn each one as a vector layer.
One more, one more thing. For just one color don't draw in black. Use red, blue, green, yellow etc. The garbage on most scans is gray and is confused for lines. Do the complete process and you should be very happy.
Dale
Sending one color into Anime studio JP and then to Photoshop will eliminate all most of the garbage that scanned images have because Anime studio JP has one of the best tracing tools and you can go in with the eraser tool in Anime studio or Photoshop. But is almost un-necessary.
Over all this works better on good scanned images.
The only way is to try it for yourself.
One more thing, why would not want to use more than one color?
Let say your drawing a background, the road is black, the houses are red, the trees are green, the car is blue and it's windows are yellow.
scan the image, used the method to separate the colors with Anime studio JP and photoshop. Then use Vectactor turn each one as a vector layer.
One more, one more thing. For just one color don't draw in black. Use red, blue, green, yellow etc. The garbage on most scans is gray and is confused for lines. Do the complete process and you should be very happy.
Dale
From this crappy scan
To this:
The file
http://rapidshare.com/files/289156294/scan.anme
This has NO clean up done
It take some time to get the right settings. If I had a better scanner the result would be better.
Dale
To this:
The file
http://rapidshare.com/files/289156294/scan.anme
This has NO clean up done
It take some time to get the right settings. If I had a better scanner the result would be better.
Dale
humm?Thanks Duey for posting that example.
Unfortunately I don't think this will be of any use to me.
I was thinking it would detect the line, not the edge.
I need my linework in AS. Not an outline of my linework.
You going to write this off with out downloading the programs and trying?
Another one, this time with clean up. The clean up was done with photoshop not AS. Done with color pencils instead of markers.
Original
Done.
The files. Original, change from bit to jpg for size of the upload
psd
the edited layers
the ai files
and the AS
Still needs editing in AS but very minor.
http://rapidshare.com/files/289632755/another_test.zip
Look if you don't spend the time to learn how to do sometime new...
OK it doesn't work, ya right. The biggest problem with this is having a good scanner, with out one their is some extra work.
Dale