![]() ![]() This can be corrected by using the node tool. This might not be very accurate – notice there are a few rounded corners where they should be sharp. If there is a bitmap included in the group of shapes, I would first trace a path with a thick stroke around the bitmap to have a smooth, uniformly colored edge to trace on before doing the bucket fill. You can now move the border to the back of the group of shapes, color the stroke or increase its thickness, or give it a fill. Just remove the outer shape by selecting the outer shape's nodes with the node tool then deleting them: The resulting bucket fill will also have a border on the edge of your colored box. Click with the bucket fill tool between your box and the group of shapes (Also set the stroke to something large, say 6 pixels and no fill so you can clearly see the result). Next, select the bucket fill tool and set its threshold to 10 or more, so you'll have a smooth fill. First draw a colored box (to constrain the bucket fill) around the shapes, select the box and zoom to selection. Taking away the free service and charging a lot for the software won’t get you anything but a tiny niche market whereas keeping the free online service will get you a lot of goodwill and market mindshare, both of which lead to increased purchases when happy private users go to work and sing your praises to their employers.The quickest solution I can think of to trace a path around a clump of shapes is by using the bucket fill tool. ![]() Then go ahead and make a desktop version for the professionals who need more throughput, quality, etc. And I’m currently using Windoze XP, but Vista is a permanent nonstarter so I’m going Linux – what’s with the intention to only support Windoze and Macs? Come on, Vector Magic! First, keep the online service a free one. Look, VectorMagic is great, but it’s a single function application – I’d pay $50 maximum for that, but asking for more is insane. Their token thing is far too expensive and I can only imagine what obscene price they’re dreaming of for the desktop version given that the first $50 spent on tokens can be applied to it if/when it ever becomes available. However, I just discovered today that they’ve now gone commercial and I am very unhappy about their method. I’ve been using VectorMagic for a while now and have been more than pleased with the very excellent results. Then you can download the results as an EPS, PNG or SVG. You could zoom and move around with ease and touch up some imperfections. The interface for viewing and editing in VectorMagic was pretty cool. Despite all that, I do find the results from VectorMagic more pleasing. The Inkscape traces used the color setting on 10 or 20 scans – I believe it produces a number of coloured layers, specified by the number of scans. It’s hard to compare the VectorMagic and Inkscape results, since I’m sure that Inkscape uses different methods to vectorise. The VectorMagic vectors were made on the photo setting at medium and high quality. The high quality vectors are close to photo quality at certain resolutions, but are obviously not quite photos – kind of like the ink ran while printing or something. Lower quality vectors of photos are a bit artistic and interesting. Making vectors out of photos is probably less useful than tracing logos. Of course, it’s possible that the “original” tree (above) looked differently from the drawing it was traced from – it just came out well. I was surprised by the results, since the original tree was traced by Inkscape. Obviously 0.990 captures the highest proportion of the image, but it loses some fine detail. The traces in Inkscape were done on the “brightness cutoff” setting at thresholds of 0.450, 0.600 and 0.990. While VectorMagic did lose a couple of joints, overall the detail is clean and compared to the others it’s rather elegant. I was really impressed with the quality of the vector from VectorMagic – I didn’t feel the need to do this one on “high”.Ĭircled in red are some examples of where detail is lost. The tree was traced using the “logo with blending at colour boundaries” option, with four “colours” (black, grey, another grey and white), and on medium quality. To compare the quality of VectorMagic’s bitmap conversion results and Inkscape’s, I chose a photo of my brother and cousin, and a bitmap of the tree in my blog’s header. I’ve used its bitmap trace function to convert drawings and photographs into scalable vectors, including: the tree in the header, it was originally converted from a drawing the guy with the umbrella in this wallpaper Snoopy in this wallpaper. Inkscape is versatile open source vector graphics software. LaurenMarie’s review of her experience with VectorMagic inspired me to check VectorMagic out. ![]()
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