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Melissa Martin's avatar

Re: vectorizing textured artwork - I love the look I get when I scan black pencil and wax pastel (Neocolor II) drawings into my computer and then using image trace (with custom simplified settings) in Illustrator. There is a LOT of clean up after the image trace but the results are so cool and unique!

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Mr. Tom Froese's avatar

Yes I’d bet that would look cool! Is that your go-to technique?

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Melissa Martin's avatar

One of them! Here’s an example if you’d like to see: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2-PgG5gGAv/?igsh=OHp4MmU0djFoaTg3

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Mr. Tom Froese's avatar

That’s cool. It has a “posterizing” effect. If you have Photoshop, you should play around with the posterize adjustment layer.

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Melissa Martin's avatar

Ooh, thanks, I’ll check that out!

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Robyn Hepburn's avatar

Very interesting! I wouldn't have known about any of those things otherwise, so I feel like I've learned a whole lot in a very short time.

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Mr. Tom Froese's avatar

Thanks, Robyn! That's the best possible result, I think!

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