How to turn silhouette into outline

[Annika]

Hi,

I want to turn a silhouette into an outline. I have managed to outline the silhouette using the QuickFX/Outline tool. Now I want to make the inside of the image transparent or cut it out so I am left with a white outline on transparent background. I have attached the image I am working on to help explain what I want to do. Thank you! /Annika

[v_kyr]

You don't need that FX outline stuff at all here. I assume you already have a vector silhouette (?) (otherwise take and open one of the below attached PDF or SVG files). - If so, then just apply a white stroke of some size and remove the fill color (no fill). - I show it here with a red rectangle in order to make the white stroke better visable. For the white document background get rid of that via "document setup" and enabling/seting up "transparent" there.

• FemaleSilhouette.afdesign
• FemaleSilhouette.pdf
• FemaleSilhouette.svg
• FemaleSilhouette_whiteoutline_transparent.afdesign  <--- ***

The last attached file is "white outlined on a transparent background"!

 

 

[Annika]

2 hours ago, v_kyr said:

You don't need that FX outline stuff at all here. I assume you already have a vector silhouette (?) (otherwise take and open one of the below attached PDF or SVG files). - If so, then just apply a white stroke of some size and remove the fill color (no fill). - I show it here with a red rectangle in order to make the white stroke better visable. For the white document background get rid of that via "document setup" and enabling/seting up "transparent" there.

 

• FemaleSilhouette.afdesign
• FemaleSilhouette.pdf
• FemaleSilhouette.svg
• FemaleSilhouette_whiteoutline_transparent.afdesign  <--- ***

The last attached file is "white outlined on a transparent background"!

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, v_kyr said:

You don't need that FX outline stuff at all here. I assume you already have a vector silhouette (?) (otherwise take and open one of the below attached PDF or SVG files). - If so, then just apply a white stroke of some size and remove the fill color (no fill). - I show it here with a red rectangle in order to make the white stroke better visable. For the white document background get rid of that via "document setup" and enabling/seting up "transparent" there.

 

• FemaleSilhouette.afdesign
• FemaleSilhouette.pdf
• FemaleSilhouette.svg
• FemaleSilhouette_whiteoutline_transparent.afdesign  <--- ***

The last attached file is "white outlined on a transparent background"!

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, v_kyr said:

You don't need that FX outline stuff at all here. I assume you already have a vector silhouette (?) (otherwise take and open one of the below attached PDF or SVG files). - If so, then just apply a white stroke of some size and remove the fill color (no fill). - I show it here with a red rectangle in order to make the white stroke better visable. For the white document background get rid of that via "document setup" and enabling/seting up "transparent" there.

 

• FemaleSilhouette.afdesign
• FemaleSilhouette.pdf
• FemaleSilhouette.svg
• FemaleSilhouette_whiteoutline_transparent.afdesign  <--- ***

The last attached file is "white outlined on a transparent background"!

 

 

 

Hi v_kyr,

Thank you so much, amazing! I really appreciate you help, and that you replied so fast.

Take care! 

[carl123]

10 hours ago, Annika said:

I have managed to outline the silhouette using the QuickFX/Outline tool. Now I want to make the inside of the image transparent or cut it out so I am left with a white outline on transparent background.

In the same dialog that you add the Outline FX there is an option called Fill Opacity (at the bottom), change that to 0%

 

[Feelmyself]

I found Super Vectorizer is very convenient to turn silhouette into vector outline.

 

 

But sometimes, it created lines with zig-zag. So it is good for most of the images but not for all. It could be an option to lower workload but not always so. It depends.

 

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, Feelmyself said:

I found Super Vectorizer is very convenient to turn silhouette into vector outline.

It's another way to get real fillable outlines curves here, instead of using plain strokes (single line widths). And if using the Skeletonization option on an initially outline based drawing, one would get a centerline-trace of that, so again a common single line shape form.