Inês Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Hello, Need help with Pen Tool. Is there any tool that identifies the drawing and turns it into a vector by itself? I can't get my vector to be exactly the same as the drawing What is the best way to do it ???? :) William Overington 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 33 minutes ago, Inês said: Is there any tool that identifies the drawing and turns it into a vector by itself? Well there are bitmap-to-vector tracers/vectorization tools, but what they can generate always also highly depends on an image's quality/color tonals etc. you throw them on. In your case that bitmap background image looks pretty dark and thus would probably need some customizations so it can be traced in some useful manner! - Other than that, you can finetune and better adjust what you've already traced there manually via the help of the Node tool. You should give either way a try, in order to see what works best for you here! William Overington 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...
R C-R Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Inês said: I can't get my vector to be exactly the same as the drawing It may be impossible to get it exactly like the image but you should be able to get close if using the Node Tool you add more nodes & carefully adjust their positions & handles to more closely follow the contours in the image. William Overington 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 3 hours ago, R C-R said: It may be impossible to get it exactly like the image but you should be able to get close if using the Node Tool you add more nodes & carefully adjust their positions & handles to more closely follow the contours in the image. It is very useful for some projects to use the Transform panel to position each node precisely, especially if one sets the measurement units to be pixels. View Studio Transform Click to get a tick thus thereby showing it is on. If it is already ticked but the Transform panel is not showing, untick then use the sequence again to tick it on. The Transform panel can be dragged away from its default position amongst other items. On a separate aspect, if View Show Context Toolbar is ticked, then each node of the drawing produced using the Pen Tool can be set as one of several types. I tend to firstly draw shapes using straight lines, as if sides of a polygon, then use the Convert to Smooth mode (by clicking on the toolbar logo while in node mode with the node selected) facility to remove the sharp corners. This can be done, if so desired, one node at a time, so one can choose to smooth some corners yet not others. It is possible, if so desired, to convert every node of a drawing to become a smooth mode all at once by, in Node Mode, selecting one node then using Control A on the keyboard and then choosing Convert to Smooth. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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