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Glock

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  1. Thank You so much for posting this ….Yet another great possibility… it looks pretty robust, so I’ll have to put some time aside to really explore this and the previous option….But very happy to HAVE options!
  2. NO…Not at all…. I think I could totally live with that in 90% of my applications of the technique….
  3. I cant tell what your needs are with regard to vectorization mine were essentially creating masks or selections…. isolating and extracting objects from photos and creating glyphs or glyph like renderings …line drawings like a coloring book….for storyboards or whatever…. …I can’t tell from above examples what it is you are trying select or isolate…. Heres a thread on the topic from the launch announcement of V2 and below is a “simple” test I used to ascertain how well various vectorizing apps from this thread worked….one that I could quickly knock our by hand…the sample below is “VTracer” I believe…and it is better than the some of the others….I have not touched Adobe in more than a decade. F THEM.
  4. Also fwiw….after spending COUNTLESS hours becoming adept at using a pen tool and “paths” in PS for complex selections…years ago out of necessity and SHEER FRUSTRATION….the effort paid off and I find I am MUCH better and FASTER than ANY automated attempt I’ve tried…. but for multiple basic repeatable simple everyday selections/conversions a working ai tool would be invaluable.
  5. Sadly…..this has been requested AD NAUSEAUM for MANY years……annnnddddd this horse has been beat to death in previous forums…it isn’t in V2 and there have been anecdotal comments to the effect that developers don’t see it as a greatly desired function (Which is BS)…and that it wont even be considered until they feel they have a viable reliable tool. Somewhat believable….as it doesn’t appear to be EASY to do…… Others have suggested existing specialized apps out there that are “just fine”…. I have not found anything that works WELL…..certainly not as WELL as Illustrators’ implementation. so I wouldn’t plan on seeing it anytime soon…..
  6. Great! Thanks for the quick response. Good points. Probably just gonna sit on my wallet for now…..a useable auto raster>vector generator would have had me go all-in on Day One…. But having tried most of the suggested apps out there for that endeavor and seen how bad the results were…I get that it must be a a YUGE technological hurdle for Serif…. why it doesn’t seem to be the case for Illustrator is beyond my powers of comprehension….. Whatever…. Thanks Again!
  7. I current OWN all 3 apps. IF I “UPGRADE” to the “suite” am I then required to continually upgrade as a “SUITE” or can I decide I only want, or really NEED, to keep up on 1 or 2 of my apps. This is EXACTLY how Adobe started their grift….that led ultimately to subscriptions…. Hang a group discount “carrot” then only allow upgrades TO THE SUITE….at the greatly increased SUITE price instead of much more economical individual price as NEEDED.
  8. Nothing wrong with you brother….I think most ALL of us here kept thinking that WITH EACH UPDATE it would appear….it may be superfluous for some, but for me too, IT was the ONE THING I’ve felt was a gaping hole in an otherwise very cool productive workflow. Come on Serif….at least give us a beta……
  9. 35k, Thanks for taking the time to do that…It IS better than Vtrace but as you said not great…..I’d still be WAY faster by hand….SOOOO (I) we wait, and I try yet another “workaround” which seems like an unnecessary PITA after all this time….I was an early adopter of Affinity and luckily for me closer to the end, than the beginning, of my career…. FWIW, since I was around for the pleasure and pain of the transition to digital ( and I had to walk 27 miles to school in hurricanes & blizzards in the dark while dodging wild animals) so, this is a minor bitch fest for me in the Grand Scheme of things…. BTW…should I win a lottery….the biggest obligation I will feel, is choosing the right flip flops to wear, and which break to surf that day….not making the World a better place for my much loved creative brothers and sisters. …..Though there will always be a pitcher of Margaritas in the freezer for y’all…..(guaranteed they won’t freeze….)
  10. 👍 on the cheese & crackers…..🤙🏻
  11. If this double posts, sorry…..(I’m experiencing a lag and gotta run out) I ran a test with V tracer on this image ( because I could…. quickly ….(with their web demo https://www.visioncortex.org/vtracer/ ) as I thought it would be REALLY easy to do by hand, yet might fool AI because of the similar tones . And an example of something I might do repeatedly to say, create a quick gliph-like representation of something….for me to create a layer, click a button and be 90% THERE with minor clean up would be a big time saver…. I could never get it to separate the hair….. YMMV.
  12. WOW….THANK YOU 35k….This app looks really robust & polished…I will check it out…..curiously on their YouTube “lesson” page turning a photo into a vector is not an obvious promoted topic ….(but there TONS of others…..) so I wonder how good it is at that since it’s NOT front and center….and the pricing model….can’t fiend any mention of $$ yet….but I’ve just started reading about it. As for Capture they ask you to sign in to your account to access it…..so not happening for me, as I INTENTIONALLY deleted EVERYTHING I had when they started forcing “suites” and then the subscription model…Used my stand alones as long as I could, then Serif/AFFINITY saved the day….
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