Testing the waters a little here… For a while I’ve been considering knocking together a multi-part ‘tutorial’ (read: explanation of what works for me) on how I do my vector traces. Would this be of any interest to anyone, or should I put that idea on the back burner for a while longer?
Would it perchance include a section on how to do traces in Photoshop? Seeing as I lack Illustrator…
No Illustrator here either. If you can be bothered getting used to Inkscape, a tutorial in that would be cool. It’s free, open, and multiplatform.
http://www.inkscape.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
Yes! It would be very useful and interesting to see your technique. Using Illustrator has always been a bit of a black art and I think it would be great to see how you are creating your vector images.
Please do.
-Daniel
I agree, seeing different techniques for vectoring can be very useful to improve. I would be very interested in a tutorial like that.
I certainly would be interested.
Vectoring may not be tremendously complicated, but seeing some one else’s techniques lends itself to those “ah ha!” moments that can occasionally immediately improve my abilities. I’m sure the same is true for others.
And remember: For every person that bothers to post, there are many, many more who may agree but avoid posting! (Cheap words of encouragement, but it’s true.)
Oh yes, I’d be interested too ^^
I know that tutorials are a bitch to do, but hopefully you won’t be kept up from doing one because of that. Just like Mac said, I’m also positive that lots of people who do not comment would be grateful for such a tutorial.
Can you do a sort of PS to Illustrator tutorial? I first learned tracing in PS, but I wanted to switch to Illustrator since it’s well, actual vector tracing but I haven’t been able to find good tutorials that teach what commands or functions in Illustrator correspond to what in PS.
Oh pretty please, yes!
Yes, you should. Then new folk in the vector thread would stop whining about the old tutorial links being out of date or not very complete.
Personally, I learned vector tracing on my own (learned basics of Illustrator in a high school class though!), and I think it’d be both interesting and a great learning experience to see how other people do it. Especially since I’m so slow at it T_T
By the way, how did you guys learn to use Illustrator for tracing?
The people asking for PS tutorials may be disappointed - I only ever did two traces in Photoshop, and the last of those was two and a half years ago. I’ve pretty much forgotten how to do it in Photoshop beyond that it was incredibly frustrating and time consuming.
I’d like to see a tutorial, maybe then I can use a method that gets results as opposed to the weird Frankenstein method I’ve been using these past 12 months resulting in nothing.
I’d definitely be interested in seeing how you did your vectors.. great stuff. Looking forward to this!
I would also very much like to see a tutorial on this, since I still haven’t stumbled upon a good one (and all Illustrator does at the moment is take up space).
Yes, please.
Finally back. Damned ISP decided to disconnect me for 27 hours.
I’m kind of busy this week, mainly with finishing up the Tsukihime beta, so don’t expect much tutorialy stuff. The first installment will be introductory stuff anyway, I want to start from first principles.
EDIT: On the subject of Inkscape, I have attempted to try it out three times now. The first time, it ran like a dog and crashed all over the place. The second time, it was incredibly slow with an unwieldly interface (GTK+ sucks for these sorts of applications, even in Linux where it originates) and from memory it lacked something really basic, like layers. The latest version refuses to run for me at all, regardless of what I do. Also, I have absolutely no desire to learn a completely new program and interface when I’m very happy using Illustrator (except for its gradient interface, which is horrid). I wouldn’t be writing a tutorial, I’d be reading them. Anyway, I might give it a look once it hits 1.0, but at the moment I have no reason to change.