How do I turn a line drawing into a vector drawing

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Hello!

I hope I'm not asking a question that's been asked to death! Which is, I have lots of simple line drawings I've 'captured' using Adobe Capture. Is there a way I can turn them into line drawings in Affinity Designer?
Thankyou!

Shape 2

[v_kyr]

Hello and welcome!

Well it has been asked to death, but hey no problem. 😄  

I believe Adobe Capture can also convert and export as vector formats, so not just raster/pixel formats. If so, then in case of a PNG file (BTW you forgot to add an PNG file extension to that Shape attachment), you maybe can also export as SVG or PDF then, which are both vector formats which you can open in Affinity products then hopefully as vector drawings with vector curves inside.

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In Capture, go to the SHAPES tab. Select the shape you want to export. On the bottom of the interface, select the export button, it looks like a box with an arrow exiting from it. Select export as.. and select either PDF or SVG.

Other than that, for a raster/bitmap file (as PNG/JPG) you would have to retrace/rasterize that either manually in an Affinity app (meaning here redraw the whole then manually as vectors with vector tools instead of pixels), or automatically with the help of a tracing/vectorization program (see this list of some of those available apps and free online services).

For example here is a vectorized (bitmap-to-vector) result as SVG and PDF of your above shape (made with a custom tracing program):

• Shape 2.pdf
• Shape 2.svg

You can open these SVG/PDF vector format files now in any of the Affinity apps and will get your line drawing as vectors!

For the iPad there are also vectorization apps like ...

• Vector Q by Imaengine
• Vectorize!
• Vectornator
• Adobe Capture (what you used)
• ... and so on ...

 

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Brilliant! Thankyou ever so much, v_kyr! 

Whoohooo!!