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Vector Editors
Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 22:10
by Psych0_Cr1tt3r
What vector editor software do you guys and gals recommend when it comes to scanning and smoothing?
Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 23:19
by maxxis
Scan you line art as bitmap tiff images and import into Freehand or Corel Draw.
Personally I use Freehand. I find Corel Draw too much of a hassle.
Posted: 20 Nov 2004, 01:11
by Leigh
Why are you specifically after a vector package? Unless you specifically need to draw with splines and such, why not use a bitmap editing program?
I was never a fan of Freehand myself (bleh), but frankly I kinda don't much like vector packages anyway. When I first went freelance many years ago I bought the full Corel 9 package and now it just sits, unused and uninstalled, in its huge box on my software shelf. Maybe once a year I'll install it and use it to make a font.
Corel does have a Trace application for scanning though. It takes a scanned image and converts it to vectors... it's kinda messy though. Is this the sort of thing you're after?
Posted: 20 Nov 2004, 11:02
by Psych0_Cr1tt3r
Leigh wrote:Why are you specifically after a vector package? Unless you specifically need to draw with splines and such, why not use a bitmap editing program?
I was never a fan of Freehand myself (bleh), but frankly I kinda don't much like vector packages anyway. When I first went freelance many years ago I bought the full Corel 9 package and now it just sits, unused and uninstalled, in its huge box on my software shelf. Maybe once a year I'll install it and use it to make a font.
Corel does have a Trace application for scanning though. It takes a scanned image and converts it to vectors... it's kinda messy though. Is this the sort of thing you're after?
I do use bitmaps. The thing is the size at which one can enlarge them is limited. I have CorelDraw8 but the OCR-Trace package is wasted. Like you said, messy.
It's not life threateningly important. I was interrested in what applications people use.
