James husted Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 One of the only reasons I have not gone completely to Affinity and keep an old copy of Illustrator CS6 is because of the image trace function. Converting of bitmap/raster images to vector artwork is a mainstay for logo designers. Having to manually do this in Designer is a real drag. solpheo, Carlonike, Maverick. and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 23 minutes ago, James husted said: Having to manually do this in Designer is a real drag. I use third party tracing tools as workarounds, for this still missing feature. List of some third party vectorization & tracing tools PaoloT 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...
Aritstrybycg Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 I agree. I would love to see this tool! languidcorpse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHK Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 On 7/13/2023 at 7:31 PM, James husted said: One of the only reasons I have not gone completely to Affinity and keep an old copy of Illustrator CS6 is because of the image trace function. Converting of bitmap/raster images to vector artwork is a mainstay for logo designers. Having to manually do this in Designer is a real drag. 100% agree. Live trace is needed for brand designers. I use this feature often in Illustrator when I am trying out new fonts BEFORE I buy them. It gives me enough knowledge to know whether a font will work for my intended purpose. It's not as crisp however it still allows me to work out branding problems before refining the final version for the client. This is a huge Illustrator benefit. I'm honestly shocked it wasn't included in V1 let alone we're still waiting with it not in V2. Aron Elal and Gripsholm Lion 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffe Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I agree. I would love to see 'image trace' in Affinity Photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowheadT Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 Funnily enough, back when Serif made Draw Plus, this was a feature of their software, they called it Auto Trace. They had a version of image trace before Adobe did. So I would love for them to bring it back and refine it for the Affinity suite. But I'm in favour of them taking the apple approach here, really get it right, and get to be stable before they fully release it. Frozen Death Knight, Alfred, Archangel and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Serif has stated in the past that they were not happy with the results they were getting from tracing using the algorithms they had on hand and that when they introduce this into the Affinity suite they want to do it right and have something better than what they could achieve right now. There were also hints that they intend to do this in a big way and implement it as an entirely new persona just for this task. This was some time ago, however, so not clear what direction this may currently be taking - still, I would expect this will come in time, but they are waiting until they can do it in a way that they will be happy with, which I can certainly get behind. loukash and languidcorpse 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffe Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 I have no problem with Serif doing the job properly. My concern is that they have forgotten about 'image trace' altogether. GameDirection, SignQuickieAffinity and GRAFKOM 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSDfield Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Realy would like to see bitmap tracing in the Affinity Suite, currently I use Inkscape for that feature alone: https://inkscape.org/doc/tutorials/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 On 7/14/2023 at 1:58 AM, v_kyr said: I use third party tracing tools as workarounds, for this still missing feature. You make it look too easy! What if when returning to Designer you no longer find it??? Pšenda 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Rutledge Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Bring Image trace (image to Vector) to Affinity Designer Yes, I agree. As a matter of fact I was just trying to figure out how to do this yesterday. It's a shame to have to go to "work arounds" to accomplish what we want to do. I don't say this to discredit Affinity but to encourage them. Phillip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 As a freelance designer. I used both Inkscape as the main software and old Illustrator versions only for printing because of cost-related reasons. I was so happy that I thought I could use Affinity as an acceptable replacement for Adobe Suite and many freeware (clunky) in the process. It somehow works smoother and lighter than Adobe Suite on my Windows 11 PC. Until I found out that there is no image trace in Affinity Designer. It's one of the main features of any graphic design software. What a deal breaker. I hope they bring it to the Designer soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_b Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 i would be so glad to have this feature on Affinity apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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