Мария Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Please add auto tracing bitmaps, оr, pleace tell me where to find it in the program, it is very necessary fo me) OC3 and 2989 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 It doesn't exist, I'm afraid. I would suggest downloading Inkscape which is a completely free open source vector program. It has that feature, so it is an okay workaround if you don't want to spend extra money until Serif decides to add it. Мария 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undercovergypsy Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I really need this too. I don't understand how it could have been in the Legacy program, Serif Draw Plus (I think you can get that inexpensively - although I have trouble with it crashing a lot) and not in Affinity Design? If you are a person who is used to it, it is a must, making designer not really worth it. I don't say that easily as I love Affinity products. It is an amazing time saver - why manually trace when you can have it done for you? Please Affinity, consider working on that? BTW Xara graphic designer has it and it is not too expensive either and I find it a bit easier to use than Inkscape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befehr Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 I am unclear why so many folk want auto trace. Is this a time constraint thing or just not having the talent to draw things themselves. I don’t mean to be demeaning here, I have just never had the need, or have been in the position, to trace something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undercovergypsy Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Some of us bring out hand drawn art into software to clean it up. If you only draw in software you may not realize that you can fix imperfections in your work that cause critical errors on cutting machines or screens for printing. The time saved and the perfect results are worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befehr Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 1 hour ago, undercovergypsy said: Some of us bring out hand drawn art into software to clean it up. If you only draw in software you may not realize that you can fix imperfections in your work that cause critical errors on cutting machines or screens for printing. The time saved and the perfect results are worth it. I get the importing of hand drawn art, but I’ve never had an auto trace work well enough were I didn’t spend more time fixing it than just drawing it outright over the imported image. Especially when you need to be concerned about specific colors and the number of colors. Then again, I am a bit of a control freak and I like to keep my anchor points to a minimum. Alfred and GreenLion 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Martin Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 I've used the tracing feature built into DrawPlus for many years. It is often sufficient to work on , say, a logo. I have now found Vector Magic which you can test online, subscribe to monthly or buy outright for $250. It's astonishing! There will be sources it can't handle, but it does an incredible job with most subjects, including photos. But do use the web version to see if it meets your needs. My guess is that few Designer users will want to buy the full desktop product at that sort of price, but it might suit a group of users who only need it occasionally. OC3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 In the mean time people can use some of these workarounds ... Some forum threads about bitmap tracing/vectorization: Image Tracing in Affinity Designer? Image Trace to Vector Path Converting Pixel drawing to Vector? Auto Trace In AFFINITY DESIGNER Best Image Vectorizer for Mac with Affinity Designer ... and so on ... Vectorization and autotracing software for Win + Macs: Super Vectorizer 2 (commercial, Mac) TracedLines (commercial, Mac) Intaglio Vectorize (free to use, Mac) DragPotrace (Mac) + Potrace (free, Win + Mac) Potrace (free, Win + Mac) AutoTrace (free, Win+Mac) Inkscape (free, Win + Mac) MS Expression Design 4 (win, nowadays free) Image Vectorizer (commercial, mac) Vector Magic (commercial, win + mac) Online tracing tools: autotracer vectorizer vectorization Vectorize Raster Images Online (online Photopea, free) ...etc... Online centerline supporting tracing tools: Rapid resizer fConvert Online Vectorizer ...etc... OC3 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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