I've always admired people who do vector traces of images. The traces always come out so nice and clean. Therefore, I decided to try my hand at it. I've found that it's not incredibly difficult, but it is very, very time-consuming. My first vector trace is one of Sakaki in her waitress outfit from a desktop wallpaper I found on the internet. Here's what I've done so far:



Does anyone else here do vector traces? If so, let's see 'em! I'll post my full trace when I'm done (which may be 5 years from now :P).

Edit: I'm using Paint Shop Pro 7.0 by JASC, by the way.

Agh, super awesome. I've never really tried anything like that, so I have no input except that I like what I see so far.

Good work, but you may want to fix the ear, at the moment it looks somewhat squary at the tip.

I started a trace some time ago but I never finished it. As you said, it's not hard but it's very, very time-consuming. :o

Here's an update. I've been working at this for a few hours now, and I'm slowly getting close to finishing.

Wow! Looks really nice ^_^

Many hours after starting, I'm finally finished!

Click Here!

Tell me if I can improve anything. Suggest some ideas for a background. Any help is appreciated!
I will make this into a wallpaper for the final version.

Awesome ^_^

Wow, it came out real nice!

woooow raz it rllly goood!!!!!^^

*WOF*!

Very, very impressive stuff. Well done! :)

wow! :blink:

how do you make vector traces?did you use photoshop to do this?

Wow! Thats awesome! ^_^

Also I love it. I might make it into a desktop before you do. ^_^

;)

Here's a link to a tutorial: http://www.clearlypixelated.com/vector/tutorials.html

It would be a really awesome desktop if you took that whole screenshot and vectored the background also. :o

Yeah, I was thinking of that too... I'll probably do it later. I need a break first :lol:

Very good work Razor!

I'll definitely stick your wallpapered version in my rotation. :)

Thanks for that sitey. I've been wanting to know how to do this for a LOOONG time.. ^_^

Well, here's my attempt at vector tracing the classroom background from the original picture. There isn't a whole lot of detail in the original, so it's not that exciting, but at least it's better than pure white. Unless someone has a different idea for the background, I'm going to consider this the final image ^_^

Edit: Added shading to the kitty on Sakaki's head.
Sakaki-san 1600x1200

Beautiful... except for the watermark :(

It's placed in such a way that you can erase it very easily or hide it under your windows taskbar. ^_^

Edit: Well, for those of you who aren't able to use an art program, I'll release a version without the watermark
Sakaki 1600x1200 No Watermark

:o

I saw this wallpaper at another site (I think you know which one I'm talking about ;))

I can't find my way to your site :cry:

Uh-oh! It's time for another project. I decided to start vector tracing this wonderful Galaxy Angel image ^_^

Razor is as God to the good people of the internet. :wub:

*hums Ya Samolyot* :evil:

YES. :evil:

I'll be waiting for it's completion. Keep up the good work. :D

/souji waits :)

be sure to post the finished product :ph34r:

Here's a little update: I've made it through almost all of the most time-consuming part of the process -- the outlines. Next, I will add shading and highlights (which I could've done before the outlines, although it really doesn't matter) and Milfie's eyes. And then I'll have to repeat the entire process twice more to get Chitose and Ranpha :wacko: :(

My previous Galaxy Angel vector tracing project was lost when my external hard drive crashed, and it would take way too much work to remake it. Here's my latest project, from Pani Poni Dash--Becky!

:o

What episode is this from? :3

Looks to be from the new OP that starts in.... ep 10, I want to say?

Exactly. I thought it would look pretty good as a wallpaper ^_^

Now, most of the tracing is done, but I had to stop to go to work... I should be able to finish in an hour or two tonight. Only the eyes, some shading, and minor details remain.

Looks like I'm pretty much done :D


(Click for 1600x1200 version)


Take a look and tell me if anything looks weird, especially the eyes.

If thou art done, mightest thou vector trace a Cz-y goodness?

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The N's in Pani Poni look pixellated, unfortunately, but there's probably nothing to be done about that.

All around otherwise, though, excellent. New desktop get! Thanks, Razor!

I tried to fix that, to no avail :(

If you or I find something really desktopworthy and in need of vector tracing, maybe :D

is there another tutorial? because it says the cookies are being blocked and it wont open the url. Having too much protection can suck sometimes -_-

I'm sure there are plenty of vector tracing tutorials now. Just use Google.

I would use my thread revive image here but I can't find it! I will use this instead:

WHAT COULD IT BE???