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Vectoring I bring you this tutorial upon request...and its my first, so be nice ;__;. I'll be going over basic steps of vectoring an image. Why vector? Well, a good amount of times, there'll be great pictures with evil TEXT all over it [booo!] vectoring gets rid of the tezt. Its also used to recolor/reconstruct a bad scan. Step one: pick an image/line work.
Open the image in photoshop and double click the layer.
You'll get a pop up asking you to rename the layer, layer 0 is fine.
Now, create a new layer ABOVE your original image.
Fill this layer with white, and set it to 'invisible' [see about image, the little 'eye' is gone, showing that the layer is invisible] Create another layer ABOVE the white layer, name it "lines". Now, grab your pen tool and have it to the setting outlined in red:
Zoom into your image and start going [U]around [/U]a line in the image like so:
Close the path. Right click on it and hit "FILL PATH". Hit ok, then hit your delete button
You should now have this:
You'll notice that part of the image is cut off.
Dont panic! Just MAKE IT UP. Make lines that you think look right. This is what I did:
Now, just keep going until you've done all the line work. If you turn the white layer back on, your image should look like this:
Step 2: coloring pt. 1
Do the same, right click, "fill path", ok, delete. Do this to all the shadows/ highlights you have on your image. If you turn back on the white layer, you should have something like this:
Step 3: coloring pt. 2
Just turn on the white layer [make sure there isnt any spots you missed], crop it if you need to, and save it.
If you want an image with just colors, then skip the 'lines' layer, just do steps 2 and 3. ALSO, you dont need to have a million layer, but you MUST have at least 5: image, white, lines, shadows/highlights, basic colors. Shadows and highlights can be seperate layers. You need these layers so that you dont accidently remove some of a line or highlight, and it makes vectoring MUCH easier |
