HumanByDesign Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Anyway to import a black and white (or color) bmp/png and have AD create vector art of it? Now or in a future release? The way Adobe's Auto Trace does it. MacMini 2018 Intel 32GB, Blackmagic eGPU AMD Radeon Pro 580 Affinity Photo 2.3.1, macOS 14.3 LG Ultrawide HDR MacBook Pro 2020 13" Intel 16GB Affinity Photo 2.3.1, macOS 14.3 iPad Pro 2021 11" 3rd gen. M1 Affinity Photo 2.3.1, iOS 17.3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 11, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2015 Hello HumanByDesign, Welcome to Affinity Forums. Currently Affinity Designer doesn't provide auto-tracing features. This was requested a couple times already but we still have a considerable number of new features to implement until we get there. Check out our roadmap to get a better idea of what's coming next. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarian Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 HumanByDesign, I'm working on a project wherein I'm trying to use ONLY non-Adobe software in the creation of a visual. In order to achieve the vector tracing from a picture file, I used Inkscape. Inkscape has a VERY powerful and oft-overlooked tracing engine built into it (it's an open source engine called "Potrace," I believe) and is my go to whenever a trace is needed. I find it to be easier to manipulate than the tracer built into Illustrator and yields a superior product. Up until a couple of days ago, I was uncertain that the output from Potrace would reliably open in Designer. Happy to report that the PDFs and the SVG files opened well (use the latest AD beta...as of this writing, 2/16/15). Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Cheers Quarian, good to know this about inkscape. http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarian Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Retrograde...thanks, hope you'll get some use out of it. Never use only one tool for everything...If you have access to different tools that each do one or two things well (ESPECIALLY if they happen to be open source), use them all together. "How many times do I have to tell ye...the right tool for the right job!" - Montgomery Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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