Lil Joker 247 Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 This post was started in 2014!!!!!!!!! and still no image trace available. blows my mine how great this software is but how it is still missing some of the key features that a lot of us use. This along with an envelope distort tool for text that doesn't raster the effect and keeps the vector lines (which I use for a plotter/cutter) would also be a great edition and im sure has also been requested for a long time. Keeping my fingers crossed V2 will have these features. JimKn and Tadd 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnabas Thomas Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 +1. I'm coming from Figma, and I guess I've been totally spoiled by how good its Image Tracer plugin is - it's saved me literally hours of work. Serif, I'd love to see this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray C Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 This was a feature in the previous Serif product. I too could use this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeExplode Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Image tracer in Illustrator is a major part of my workflow, though the main reason I use it is to actually smooth raster lines and give the impression of line weight to them due to how Illustrator tapers the traced lines. Even if it's not an artistically chosen line weight like an artist would do with pen pressure, it's still a nice effect rather than lines of all the same width with no tapering, and the actual vector output doesn't matter so much to me. While the usual tracing features (which also exist elsewhere) aren't so useful to me, I'd love to see a smooth & tapering effects pass which Illustrator's tracing somehow manages, which no other tracing implementation does as far as I know. I don't have many good ideas for how it would be implemented though, perhaps first removing speckles of certain sizes, breaking all continuous blobs of colour into vector objects, and then doing a tapering effect on any end segments which follow a long stretch of roughly equal width shape outlines running in near-parallel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermurph Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Have you all seen the new Inkscape 1.2 It has vector trace and a heap of other features you have been asking for and, it's free. They have made a lot of improvements to the app and it feels very pro now. PaulEC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityAppMan Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 4 hours ago, spidermurph said: Have you all seen the new Inkscape 1.2 It has vector trace and a heap of other features you have been asking for and, it's free. They have made a lot of improvements to the app and it feels very pro now. I need to check this out. Maybe moving to this free app instead of using Affinity Designer can solve a lot of issues. I haven’t seen many improvements on Affinity Designer in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixx Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 For a program such as Affinity Designer not to have Live Trace is disappointing to learn. I am not sure if Affinity is a remake of DrawPlus back in the days, in which tracing was part up until v. X8. But the AutoTrace function has not made it into Affinity Designer. This forum is pondering on the subject with their first post since 2014. Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias1972 Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 5/22/2022 at 8:49 AM, AffinityAppMan said: I need to check this out. Maybe moving to this free app instead of using Affinity Designer can solve a lot of issues. I haven’t seen many improvements on Affinity Designer in a while. I think they will update Designer in the future as it already had a patch along with other apps. As for vector trace, I've never had a problem using Adobe Capture as a go-around to export an SVG to Designer on the Mac. The rest of Designer is fine but for vector trace, if I have to, is done on Adobe Capture which is a free app for iOS ( iPhone and iPad ). It works for me every time. Unless you're on Windows, then use Inkscape or other vector apps as a go around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 People keep mentioning that DrawPlus had an autotrace feature. Apart from the fact that what was in an old "legacy" product is irrelevant to the Affinity apps, (as they use completely different code,) it was (IMHO) pretty rubbish! Basically you either got detail less blobs or a huge file with hundreds of nodes. Inkscape is much better and, hopefully, AD will have an equally (or better) autotrace feature soon. Alfred 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 14 hours ago, PaulEC said: People keep mentioning that DrawPlus had an autotrace feature. Apart from the fact that what was in an old "legacy" product is irrelevant to the Affinity apps, (as they use completely different code,) it was (IMHO) pretty rubbish! Basically you either got detail less blobs or a huge file with hundreds of nodes. Inkscape is much better and, hopefully, AD will have an equally (or better) autotrace feature soon. I don’t find Autotrace rubbish as long as you spend time adjusting the parameters beforehand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 4 hours ago, Catshill said: I don’t find Autotrace rubbish as long as you spend time adjusting the parameters beforehand. Your experience of Autotrace in DrawPlus is obviously different to mine! I always seemed to spend forever messing with it, just to get a mediocre result. In Inkscape it just works (most of the time). I really hope that when we finally get Autotrace in AD it is much better than it was in DrawPlus. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RalphLG Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 On 5/24/2022 at 6:13 AM, Catshill said: I don’t find Autotrace rubbish as long as you spend time adjusting the parameters beforehand. I agree. It all depends on the source file and the settings. The results may even be better than expected, with a variable line thickness effect ( DrawPlusX5 ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonoGG Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 +1 Have been looking for an alternative for Inkscape. The UI of Affinity Designer appealed to me immediately. However, in my opinion, a few important features are still missing, such as the Auto Trace mentioned here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 This is a useful Potrace GUI web app since there isn't decent Potorace GUI app for Windows. Potrace is for black/white only but well works for logos/text.https://svgco.de/ dominik and BennyD 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distanzia Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 I just got AD 2, still don't see this feature... or am I blind? eobet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesignByAdrian Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 10 hours ago, Distanzia said: I just got AD 2, still don't see this feature... or am I blind? They haven't promised it for version 2.0 and it's not listed under new features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochen Damm Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 9 hours ago, Distanzia said: I just got AD 2, still don't see this feature... or am I blind? No, it is not there yet. There are rumors that it might be in a version between 2.1 and 2.4 but I have no idea how accurate this statement might be. But you don't have to pay more for this feature if it will be released under 2.x branch. Even if it take some years. I miss that feature as well but even without it the software in general is great. I already purchased the whole suite even if I have to save money urgently. In my case photography and graphic/communication design are a pricey hobby. My only income is invalidity pension and upped to a guaranteed minimum pension. This barely covers living expenses. I am not an Affinity fanboy but I added this statement to show how much I belive in Serif and my desire to support them. Sure, I wanted to use the discount (initial price). Without that discount I would had waited a few months and bought the suite piece by piece while still using version 1. My priority is Publisher, followed by Designer and Photo at last. I don't have much experience in photo editing and barely do more than basic corrections. And for working with vector graphics is Inkscape still tool of choice for many tasks. I work with Inkscape for about 20 years - a period you can't forget easily. In Inkscape I vectorized several graphics and logos. Among them in version 0.48 (with Potrace 1.6) several scanned logos for re-creation. It took some time but the outcome was better than the result from Adobe Illustrator (CS2). After all these years I am still impressed because Inkscape was full of bugs at that time and slow. Not useful for any designer outside of the Linux bubble. katho3d 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katho3d Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I just purchased the whole suite too. Designer v2 is great, Thank you, but I would still love to see an autotrace feature in one of the upcoming 2.x versions 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeGr Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 The autotrace feature in Designer V2 would really be great !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnabas Thomas Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 +1, hoping to see Image Trace in a 2.x release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A4DP Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 I also think image tracing is a much awaited feature to most designers. GeGr 1 Quote --------------------- Saying with a loud voice, "Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." (Revelation 14:7) 他大聲說：「應當敬畏神，將榮耀歸給祂！因祂施行審判的時候已經到了。應當敬拜那創造天地海和眾水泉源的。」（啟14:7） --------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jany Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 As you can see, V2 is out for some time now, yet still no auto trace. I requested refund for v2, not paying/updating till this function will be added. Have to use inkscape to do what PAID software should do years ago. SHAME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixx Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Hi Jany, I can see your point and where you come from. You can only work with what you have, that might not always be what you want. As it was stated before, Serif will wake up to it, it won't be news to them. Kind regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobet Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 I had to use my work laptop with Adobe Illustrator on it just now to trace something. Really wish Affinity could get a solution here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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