Next select the 'Pen Tool' from the toolbar. Set the foreground color by choosing the 'Eyedropper Tool (I)' to sample the darkest area of the image. Lets start by creating a solid outline of the whole car. Do so by clicking on the Folder icon at the bottom of the 'Layers Palette', double click on the 'Set 1' default text header and change to what I have (Elements). Next, lets duplicate the original 'theimage' layer and if your using Photoshop 7, create a new 'Layer Set' to store all the individual objects(multiple layers). Fill in a new name as I have captured and hit the 'OK' command button. You'll be prompted with a 'New Layer' dialogue box. Next, lets unlock that base layer and turn it into a new and separate layer.ĭo this by double clicking on the locked layer. Next go to 'File,Save As' and from the dropdown 'Format' options choose 'Photoshop (*.PSD, *.PDD)' and hit the 'Save' command option.(Of course being aware of the 'Save In' location option at the top) What we need to do first and foremost is to save this file to Photoshops. When you have that done, all Photoshop will do is open the source file, but in the process it locks it into its own layer, as I have captured. 'File/Open' and browse for the source file called theimage.jpg. Lets begin this tutorial by opeing the source image. The quality of the image is not so much an issue in this case, as long as, theres enought detail to trace. They can easily be manipulated to suit your needs by using the two previosly mentioned tools.īelow is the iamge (the minicar) I will recreate to give it the vector look and feel. Readymade Shape Vector Masks that can be used in combination with your own shapes. The Shape Tools are predefined shapes built into Photoshop. The Direct Selection Tool offers freetransform options to a single anchor point or to the path between any two anchor points. The Path Selection Tool is used to manipulate the whole object from one x,y position on your document to another. The remaining Pen Tool options are used for manipulating any given anchor point you previously created by the Pen Tool. The Pen Tool is used for creating those dot-by-dot or line-by-line shapes confined by a path direction of your choice.
#PHOTOSHOP VECTORIZE IMAGE HOW TO#
It's just a matter of knowing how to use them!! The main tools are located on the Toolbar, respectively, the 'Pen Tool (P)', the 'Path Selection Tool (A) & the 'Shape Tools (U)'.Ĭonsider the area I have enclosed below as the tools with all the vector capabilities built it. Don't expect to get it on the first try, nor the second, or even the third. Number one Tool is patience, along with practice. However, most filters require that the shape be rastorized before proceeding.(So always backup the original shape before using filters!.) Vector Shapes can also be reshaped and stylized. The true benefit of using vector shapes and paths is that it is not limited to resolution, unlike rastor, no matter the scaling direction, it still maintains quality and sharpness. These Anchor Points follow each other in a dot-by-dot or line-by-line formation along a Path. Vector is object(shape) based bound together by anchor points to form a solid object (if those anchor points join/connect). Rastor is purely Pixel based, simply meaning that an image is created by color values assigned to it on a pixel by pixel basis.(most commonly photographs and scanned images). NOTE: Since version 6 Photoshops Vector capabilities have improved and for a brief overview see this spec from Adobe. And, yes, Photoshop's vector shapes is by no means a figurehead in comparison, but what tools are available offer no real limitation as to what they can do. Often, Photoshop's vector capabilities are quickly shot down by those familiar with true vector programs, like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, or Macromedia Freehand. I'd like to show you a technique on how to vectorize from a photo reference in Photoshop.
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