Paul Gray Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Does anyone know of a tutorial to show how to change line art (like a coloring book page) to vector? Any ideas for the best way to make coloring pages? I have Procreate 4 for the iPad, as well as Designer/Photo and Photo for the iPad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted June 27, 2018 Staff Share Posted June 27, 2018 You could try inserting your line art page, then using the Paint or Pen tools with stabilization enabled to get smoother lines when traced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Hi, Paul Gray, Neither AD or AP have an auto trace function. Evidently, neither does Procreate. This ability is often sought, but the Affinity team has said that they will only implement it if they can come up w. a way that does it better than what is already available. There are online services, freeware Inkscape does it, tho' on Macs Inkscape does not run very smoothly. I bought a cheap utility, about 7 USD that is very easy to use, but not as good as Inkscape, which is more difficult. Often, the results from auto trace from any app I've used require lots of cleanup. It is, in fact often easier to do a manual trace as Lee D mentions. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 42 minutes ago, gdenby said: Often, the results from auto trace from any app I've used require lots of cleanup. It is, in fact often easier to do a manual trace as Lee D mentions. For me, unless the original raster art is very simple it invariably requires a lot of time to rework the vectorized output into something I can use that does not either have tons of extra nodes or obliterates far too much fine detail. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 On 6/26/2018 at 7:56 PM, Paul Gray said: to vector? Try https://www.vectorizer.io/ Alfred 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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