Affinity Designer convert a raster image into a vector one?

[TurboCooler]

Illustrator has a tool called Live Trace that can convert a raster image into a vector one.  Is there a similar option for Affinity Designer?

Wonder if there is a way to accomplish this or if this a possible upcoming feature?

[Lee D]

Hi TurboCooler,

Affinity Designer doesn't have an auto trace feature yet, it's something that our developers want to include in a future update. It's also one of the main feature requests we receive for Designer in the feature requested section. It will depend on the image, but have you tried placing the image on the canvas and then on a new layer using the Pen Tool to manually do the line work?

[Alfred]

The auto-trace feature in Inkscape (free and open source) works quite well, but since Affinity Designer doesn’t currently have a ‘Simplify’ feature you may need to spend some time removing extra nodes manually.

[bleblans]

+1 for auto trace

I'm a bit surprised it is not included yet.

[MEB]

Hi bleblans,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

Check this thread for more info and a few alternatives/solutions.

 

[Tormy]

On 1/4/2018 at 10:11 AM, Lee D said:

Hi TurboCooler,

Affinity Designer doesn't have an auto trace feature yet, it's something that our developers want to include in a future update. It's also one of the main feature requests we receive for Designer in the feature requested section. It will depend on the image, but have you tried placing the image on the canvas and then on a new layer using the Pen Tool to manually do the line work?

It's very sad news this. I purchased few day s ago Photo and Designer. 
Now for such thing, I have to reinstal Inkscape in order to get this done.
It's apity that such package hs not yet implmented such useful feature.

[Tormy]

On 1/15/2018 at 5:45 PM, MEB said:

Hi bleblans,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

Check this thread for more info and a few alternatives/solutions.

 

Well I had to reinstall Inkscape only for this purpose ... after have payed something  that's supposed to do one of the most common stuff like this.
Uhmm ... I'm a bit disappointed ...

Edited July 4, 2020 by Tormy

[Tormy]

1 minute ago, BofG said:

In fairness there are free trial versions for both apps available, so you could have known this before you parted with your money.

Yep, although I took this feature for granted, being Designer considered the competitor of AI.

[Trljr]

I also searched for this feature in designer. I use it in my designs for clients particularly relating to landscapes and other organic forms that are often already captured
in a rasterized form. I hope this feature is added to designer.

[Seadog]

I note that that these requests are more than two old and yet there is still no conversion tool in Aff Designer. When can we look forward to its definite inclusion?

[Tormy]

On 8/23/2020 at 9:05 PM, BofG said:

You can look forward to it now.. 

when it will arrive is another matter

 

Slightly more seriously, back when there was a published road map for features, I don't think it was listed. Right now I'd say it's more of an "if" rather than "when".

Are they ignoring this feature, when it's requested by more sides? No, seriously. I really need it. I was constrained to re-install inkscape to do it.

[v_kyr]

Since ADesigner hasn't a build-in tracing tool and probably never will have, one has to take some third party tool for tracing here, like for example:

Some desktop app tools

• potrace (Win/Mac/Linux, free)
• DragPotrace (a Mac only GUI frontend for potrace, free)
• autotrace (Win/Mac/Linux, free)
• Inkscape (Win/Mac/Linux, free)
• Intaglio Vectorize (Mac, free)
• MS Expression Design 4 (Win, free to use since longer times since discontinuous)
• Super Vectorizer (Mac, commercial)
• Image Vectorizer (Mac, commercial)
• Vector Magic (Win/Mac, commercial)
• ...and so on...

Some online tracing tools:

• www.autotracer.org
• www.vectorizer.io
• www.vectorization.org
• www.photopea.org
• online-converting.com/autotrace/
• online.rapidresizer.com/tracer.php
• ...and so on...

 

[Andrew72]

It’s kind of like the feeling of trying to go to Linux after being dissatisfied with Windows, only to realize that when they boot the Linux up, they realize that it doesn’t detect the internal card to connect to the internet, so they have no internet access...