Neverside

yes, i see that it's certainly getting there - certainly a lot closer to the technique i'm after. thx 4 your persistence

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"When fishes flew and forests walked and fig grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood, then surely I was born..." G.K. Chesterton - The Donkey

the lines seem to not join up!!

I have also tried to do the trace option using illustrator, however when i click on an object i want to trace. and then delete the object itself. The remaining line left is broken. So how do i do it so that the flow of the line is exact as the object and also not broken?

i have attached my result - which is not what i wanted??

thanks

nabeela

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nabeela iftakhar

Not sure about Illustrator, but you should be able to mess with the settings in the trace tool and get it a lot better than that.

What I ended up doing (and what I suspect others are doing) is simply tracing around each peice of the image by hand, using the freeform or pencil tool.

Then adding color. Mine looks real rough but it also took about 10 minutes. If you wanted, you could spend a lot of time and make it look really nice.

That honestly looks like something you can do easily in even MsPaint (the first image posted). Just minus facial features and major detailing.

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And the sig ran away with the spoon.

well it seems as if this effect is not as easy as it first seems!

i have had various attempts and have not come close to a passable attempt - whilst the trace bitmap feature in flash is the closest in essence, it does not accuratley create the effect desired

c'mon you vector gurus tell me the secret!

thx all 4 trying

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"When fishes flew and forests walked and fig grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood, then surely I was born..." G.K. Chesterton - The Donkey

Maybe you could upload the photo that you are wanting traced and we can play with it?

picture example

sorry for the delay - have'nt had chance to post b4 now. here is an example of what i want to convert to the same format as the first vector example i posted - i havent edited the picture at all, as i presume most of u to have your own prefered art progs.

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"When fishes flew and forests walked and fig grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood, then surely I was born..." G.K. Chesterton - The Donkey

Its photoshop not illustrator or freehand...but here's a tutorial on how to do stuff like you want.

tut