myaffinities Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Hi, just got myself the discounted triad of affinity apps... Is there a way (or plugin) in either photo or designer to easily convert pictures (JPG or PSD) into line-drawn vector shapes in order to use as clipart in a cartoon? Maria Garcia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Welcome to the forum @myaffinities There are no plugins that convert a photo into vectors, that would require an external app or online service. There are plugins that will convert a photo to a raster cartoon and there are also some macro's in the resources section of this forum that have a good go at cartooning photos. Another filter forge filter: Comic stylise + weirdness Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Just use a common external bitmap-to-vector vectorization/tracing tool for such purposes, there are a bunch of such tools available as stand alone apps and also as free usable net services! - Dependent on what you need here, check if the tool of your choice performs also color tracing or just b&w. Further if it supports color tracing, that you can limit the number of traced colors it produces, since the less colors the more clipart style or cartoonish it will look then. So there are a bunch of third party tools, which can be used as workarounds for such demands ... 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... 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...
Alfred Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 The following thread describes one method and includes links to several others: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 13 minutes ago, Alfred said: The following thread describes one method and includes links to several others: But all those don't offer this here ... --> "... convert pictures (JPG or PSD) into line-drawn vector shapes ...", and thus would just give raster/bitmap results, which in turn would have to be vectorized in order to get them finally all as plain vectors! - So a two step approach (bitmap cartoonize then vectorize) might give the OP the wanted result here. Alfred 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...
myaffinities Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 Thanks for all the feedback. It certainly gives me a head start. Appreciated ! The ultimate observation from @v_kyr Quote But all those don't offer this here ... --> "... convert pictures (JPG or PSD) into line-drawn vector shapes ...", and thus would just give raster/bitmap results, which in turn would have to be vectorized in order to get them finally all as plain vectors! - So a two step approach (bitmap cartoonize then vectorize) might give the OP the wanted result here. is true though... The ultimate goal is to obtain some sort of a bare, simplified outline of the original. It seems to me it's a three step process: 1. convert pics to rasterized "cartoons" using any of the above mentioned solutions to do so. 2. vectorize those 3. simplify the result as to ressemble more a clipart character than a (high-)fidelity to the original cartoon one I believe I have enough hints now for the two first steps, so I basically still need one for that last part... Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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