Absolutely great (and swift) tutorial! Was already looking into how to properly convert raster images into vectors, but your tutorial yields the best results hands down! Thanks for sharing 😊👍🏼👍🏼
The way your transitions and the process are so smooth that anyone with basic knowledge about it can do it quickly. thanks for giving us such a wonderful thing to us.
Now that I tried it, here is my verdict: 🙂Your method is a lot more complicated than the "usual" one that I used before - BUT - it is totally worth it. The result is so much more detailed, it`s incredible. Thanks for sharing!
5:11 After saving the PSD, its always a good idea to immediately save again under a different name. Otherwise, you may forget and hit ctrl s and over save your PSD file after flattening it.
This tutorial saved my life!! Thank you sooo much. I'm working on a book cover that was due two weeks ago and I'm just now relearning Photoshop and Illustrator. My goodness, this was easy to follow and extremely concise.
Excellent!!! Thank you SOOOO MUCH for this tutorial! I've spent over a week trying to vectorize some photos for a personal home decor project and tried countless apps and filters. A huge, frustrating waste of time. With your tutorial I was able to transform my photo in exactly about 15 minutes! Not to mention that I can now save my practice PS file as a template and just replace the layer with the photo. the overlay layer is genius! Thank you thank you, thank you!!!!!
Thank you. I have subscribed to your channel. Tutorials such as yours help those of us who will never be a master like yourself at Photoshop but nevertheless have a need to know and understand how to accomplish such masterful effects.
Another awesome video! Now I understand how to do this in PS and no longer need to use IL too. Skillshare I'll check it too. New subscriber for sure!! ✊🏽
From far the best tutorial about this topic. Complete, clear, and to the point. Was looking for those info all over the web, finally found it here! So many thanks.
The absurdity of the number of steps required for something so commonly needed speaks volumes of how out-of-touch Adobe is with its users. Creating a vector image from a bitmap is something us professionals have to do regularly. I’ve dug up a tutorial on the process so many times it’s bewildering. Come on Adobe, the settings and variations could be settings in a filter.
I love how you explain everything, and you give the reasons why. You also quickly went back over the longer steps. Your channel has become my favorite. Your a great teacher. Thank you @Pixivu. :)
Very good, did not think of doing this as I normally save an image as a TIFF and import into illustrator and let illustrator do this for me! But this will be handy.
THE WHOLE ALGORITHM IS OUT HERE: 1. Custom and set width : 2000 -3000 px, 300res, rgb 2. file > place embedded to import the image 3. resize the image > Enter 3. Quick selection or Select subject 4. layers selected click the mask icon > isolate the object 5. Convert the layer into smart object > Delete the bg with DELETE key. 6. Filter >Stylize>Oil Paint Stylization: 5.0 Cleanliness: 3.0 Scale: 0.1 Bristle detail: 0 +uncheck lighting 7. Filter Gallery > Artistic > Poster Edges Edge Thickness: 10 Edge Intensity: 0 Posterization: 6 8. Filter > Blur > Surface Blur Radius:20 Threshold:10 9. Hold the ALT key and drag the OIL PAINT filter above the SURFACE BLUR filter to duplicate it there. 10. Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask Amount: 150 Radius: 8 Threshold: 8 11. Select the whole layer and click on the Levels + click on the Hue and Saturation layer Saturation: -100 12. Posterize layer: levels(colors) 13. Go to the levels layer 11 no. and moving the 3 slider control the density. 14. More control over color then create a new layer over the image > Overlay blending mode > Brush tool > decrease its flow to 5% > paint with the dark color to darken the existing color or with the white color to lighten the existing color > don't forget to create a clipping mask to limit your drawing inside the object layer below. To make the image vectorize, follow the below 2 steps: 1. save the psd > select the image layer holding the SHIFT key select all the above editing layers > right click > Merge Layers > Select > Color Range > Select: Sampled Colors Fuzziness: 0 +uncheck Invert > click OK. Take any selection tool > right click inside the selection > choose Make Work Path > Change Tolerance to 2/3. Without going anywhere just go and make a solid color > click ok To make the multicolor vector using the action: 1. delete the vector layer and keep only the raster layer. 2. load action > select the Multi Color Vectorizer > select run > click on the small run icon > pick any color and click Ok. 3. Everytime you will select a color and that color will be deleted from the Raster image. By this, the whole image will be deleted once. 4. To export it in illustrator: file > Save As/Save a Copy > from dropdown select the eps format.
Or, once you merge layers, save to a png or psd, etc, and import into coreldraw and select trace bitmap. It will trace all of the colors in one fell swoop, and if you select organize by color, it will create objects with the like colors in each one. This saves all the need for an action in photoshop and the individual color issue as it works with any number of colors.
Hi, Thank you so much for this tutorial. I came looking for a way to make a somewhat sketched version of an image, but ended up learning a definitive way to vectorize an image in Photoshop as well. Looking forward to checking out other content. Cheers.
If like me you use to work in 16bit to avoid banding of colors, the 'filter gallery' will be grayed out. Change your image to 8bit color space, Image > mode > 8bit
It is a great tutorial! I am just wondering why save as eps file command doesn't work on me at the end. I can use only export path to illustrator and have to repeat the process with all paths.
