iMac1943 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I often have to insert a (pdf) drawing into the Illustrator file, which then I have to convert it into a black and white logo (which then it is possible to make a screenprint for printing t-shirts - screenprints = only 1 color). See attached file the way I do it now. Can I do this also in Designer, and if yes, can you explain how? Kind regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted June 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 18, 2015 Hi iMac1943, This topic has been covered a lot on these forums. at the moment we don't have an auto trace feature, this could well change further down the line. I know some users are doing the trace in say Inkscape and then bringing this into Affinity Designer. If you do a search of the forums you should find all the topics covering this and also people's different recommendations for auto tracing software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMac1943 Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Thank you. On what words should I search? Auto tracing? Auto trace feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Vectormagic... Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMac1943 Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 this is not free... I think Rapid Resizer is not free either? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 19, 2015 Hi iMac1943, Check those threads for more info and software suggestions: - Vector art conversion - JPEG, bitmap, tracing to covert to vector Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMac1943 Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Thank you. Lots of people are asking for a solution for this conversion for Affinity. I only can hope the pressure is big enough for the developers to come with a solution asap. DBerlin81, AmandaQB and JDW 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toupee Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Agreed. I'm totally in love with the Affinity software, but I still need to have Illustrator open to do image traces. This feature is also a dealbreaker when it comes to convincing people like my boss who use that feature all the time... (I'm sure very soon he will start to get mad at me for all of these .afdesign files instead of .ai files... ;)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMac1943 Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 fully agree with your boss (as you know:'the boss is always right') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidGraphX Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 So Ill Ask the Question... Is and Image Trace, Live Trace, call it what you will, …The ability for us to bring in a jpg for instance, and have AD convert it to a vector image feature in the works? Is it at least being talked about, actively thought about, in development, coming soon, or hold on it will be in the next update. What is its status if any? Thanks alisonmmiller 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi DavidGraphX, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) This is something that will still take considerable time. Currently the devs team is focused on implementing the features listed on the roadmap before considering working on new ones. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemachine Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Honestly I can think of any one feature I NEED more than this. Especially now after upgrading to High Sierra and my legacy copy of Illustrator no longer working properly. I can't believe people have been requesting this for three years now and it's not on the roadmap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 If you really need a tracing feature so badly, why not use third-party software as suggested here? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMac1943 Posted October 6, 2017 Author Share Posted October 6, 2017 This is a possibility Alfred, but why is this feature now NOT included in the last version of AD. My question dated from June 2015... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 There are probably things more important. Personally, I think a vector mould or perspective tool is far more important. It is dead easy to use Inkscape to trace something and import it. A lot harder to mould something when you are halfway through a design. Alfred 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 2 hours ago, iMac1943 said: This is a possibility Alfred, but why is this feature now NOT included in the last version of AD. My question dated from June 2015... The developers have indicated in a few older discussions that they are not interested in adding a "me too" auto-trace function to Designer that is no easier to use & does not produce any better results than existing ones like those based on the Potrace polygon-based tracing or similar algorithms. In one post one of the developers said he had "a few ideas" about how to implement a better algorithm but did not elaborate on what they were or what it could do better. My own experience with existing auto-tracers suggests that all of them, even Vector Magic, require considerable user interaction of one kind or another to produce usable, high quality traces that do not include thousands of extraneous unneeded nodes or hundreds of layers that make editing so time consuming that it ends up being quicker to do a manual trace instead. I think this is because none of the algorithms take into account how humans perceive images as composed of separate objects. It is pure speculation on my part, but I suspect some of those 'few ideas' involve exploring possible ways to do this, probably based on recent advances in machine learning like those Google is experimenting with to recognize objects in photographs. If so, it isn't likely we will see anything in AD for quite some time. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 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...
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