Description
What would your digital portfolio be without vectors?
In this course, I will share with you my best tips for one of the most valuable skills as a digital artist, vectorizing images.
I use vectors all the time in my art. Image trace has been a great tool to create my own, but when I started, I was getting terrible results..
The pen tool is a difficult thing to master, and takes a lot of time to use, even when you are good.
So I was stuck with Image Trace for complex images, small or pixelated jpegs, and big images took forever between edits.
I experimented making some quick edits in Photoshop. It instantly got better. I was so stoked to be able to find elements and keep them in this valuable format.
I looked online, and no one was teaching this concept, so I wanted to share it. This skill seriously helped me, and I hope it helps you. I am stoked for your art and your excitement creating vectors you can use now and for future projects for years to come!
Here's a what we will cover in this course:
- Diving Into Image Trace
We’ll review every option in the Image Trace panel while playing around with an orange.
- Vectorizing Photos Pre-Edits
Once we understand what we are looking for in a photo, we step into PS and make the necessary changes. We will go over making these changes with adjustment layers, and making them with Camera Raw Filters.
- Vectorizing Photos with Image Trace
We will jump into making our image into a vector, and getting a subject out of our photo.
- Vectorizing Drawings Pre-Edits
Marker drawings were made to be vectorized!! Chances are, you may not even need to pre-edit the images, but just in case we will learn how to make sure that image trace can do its best job.
- Vectorizing Drawings with Image Trace
We will turn a marker drawing into a finished vector. Once we have this one-color vector, we can replace the fill with anything we desire!
- Vectorizing Found Elements
In this lesson, we will quickly pre-edit some small images we find online, then make them high-quality vectors.
In Summary,
You will learn to get high quality vectors from any image you have!
I'll see you soon,
- Douglas
What Will You Learn?
- Create high quality vectors with Image Trace
- Vectorize photography
- Vectorize drawings
- Vectorize small icons or low quality images
Requirements
- Basic Adobe Photoshop
- Basic Adobe Illustrator
Curriculum
Course consist of total 47min of content, in total.
Section 1: Diving Into Image Trace
Section 2: Vectorizing Photos
Section 3: Vectorizing Drawings
Section 4: Vectorizing Found Elements
Section 5: Class Review
About the Instructor
I love to learn and teach. I am a free-spirited creator and artist in many disciplines. My courses focus on graphic design, specifically creating and selling digital art. I teach what would help a younger me, including the strategies I used to sell over 15,000 copies of my artwork without advertising.
I run fashion sites: liveinlove.life and sublimationgalaxyshirts.com, and also sell my art on POD sites like Redbubble & Society6, and stock photography sites like Adobe Stock and Shutterstock.
I founded Current X Change LLC, a company that makes apps that allow creators to share their creations on a global map for all to see and vote on. You can try out our first web app, cXc Music (Alpha), at music.cxc.world. I wrote all the code to make the app, including the cryptovoting algorithms, designing the frontend, the database, and everything in-between.
I also started Aquarius Academy (aquarius.academy). Our mission is to help evolve planetary consciousness with love. We distill conscious information to help seekers connect with the right information for their point of their journey.
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