Achim63 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 A feature that works awesome in Silhouette Studio (cutting plotter software, get it here for free: http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/software/silhouette-studio/) - take some drawing and make paths from it. It's just a few steps to get really good results: select a part of the image, then adjust high and/or low pass filters, threshold and scaling to your liking. I attached some pictures from that program to show the process involved. Notice the few anchors and nice curves that can be produced even with the rather low resolution jpg that I used. I use the Designer edition of Silhouette Studio which can import SVG, so I can switch to it for the features missing in AD - but it would be great to have it in AD directly, since Silhouette cannot export SVG. And while I'm at it: scanning directly in AD, so you can have a complete workflow inside AD after making a sketch with "real" media (something that Silhouette also can do). anon1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Achim63, Thanks for the link! I used to use Silhouette a long time ago and I thought that they were no longer around. Good to hear that they are still in business. For me, I normally just recreate artwork instead of using a converter but there are cases when it is useful. Thanks again! Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Achim63, yes Silhouette Studio does this quite well. Have you found a way to get the output into AD? Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achim63 Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 No, unfortunatly not - that's one of the reasons for my idea to have it in AD itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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