Good luck.
I’m going through the same process with a few very simple raster logos I’d like to convert to vector. Bottom line is, there’s no easy way in PS get accurate results without a LOT of work, either by manually retracing with Bevier lines, curves, or using Quick Mask, the Extract tool (what a joke), or Filters/Stylize/Find Edges.
All of these methods entail a lot of cleanup and none worked well for my particular logos, so I went in search of third-party utilities.. Most were even worse than PS. I tried CorelTRACE, AutoTrace, PTVector, R2VTool, WinTopo and a half dozen others, with limited amounts of success. AutoTrace produced the best results but lots of cleanup was still required. If you have Flash, there’s supposedly a great and easy way to convert raster images to vector, but unfortunately I don’t have Flash on my system.
For the life of me I don’t understand why finding simple edges in line art and making vectors out of them is such a problem for these programs. Or even expanding/improving the options in PS’s Find Edges would help tremendously. At least accurate paths could be exported to Adobe Illustrator or another vector graphics editor.
Rick
"James" wrote in message
yeah probably vector because i want to put it into my cad program
"jjs" wrote in message
"Steve Moody" wrote in message
In article <M9TYb.2547$>, James
wrote:
How can i convert a color cartoon into line art?
It *IS* line art.
🙂 It really is! I wonder if he didn’t mean vector art, or raster
outlines.