Vector Magic – Online Conversion of Bitmaps to Vector Images
If you are looking for a quick and easy way to add vector images to your website or blog, it is recommended to take a look at vectormagic.com. The site offers auto tracing capabilities that turn bitmap images into vector based drawings. The interface is extremely simple to use, consisting of just a few configuration steps after uploading an image, but the results are professional and add a great effect to your pages. Vector Magic can also be used when you want to convert a photograph into an avatar image. The site processes graphics for logos with two configuration options, and includes a custom setting specially designed for image conversion. After looking around the web for similar services and trying out a number of sites and applications, Vector Magic provided exactly what I wanted for this graphic design task, and provided high quality .png output as a free download.
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The instructions from the Vector Magic website1:
Using Vector Magic is super-simple:
- Upload your image
- Answer 2 to 3 questions in the user-friendly vectorization wizard, thereby picking the vectorization settings
- Vectorize the image
- Download the result! You can even review the result in detail online before downloading it
The site gives you three choices as to how the image is processed. The first is as a photo, with complex shapes, patterns, textures, and shading. These are typically converted for some type of artistic or stylish effect, and lack the “sharp corner” effect of the other processing methods. I used the photo setting to process the images displayed above, and the bitmap was perfectly rendered, in high definition and without any data loss or distortion whatsoever. Vector Magic offers an additional two settings for logos that include blending (nice curves) or without blending (jagged edges) which I did not use at the time.
The Vector Magic interface can be seen below:
Vector Magic Interface
Basically, I did not need to adjust any of the default settings to get the image effect I was looking for, and even though the upload connection was slow, it was just a few minutes through the whole process and I was downloading the vector traced .png of the photograph to re-import into Photoshop.
I repeated the process with the image below:
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The images above are scaled down from the larger originals I used for processing with Vector Magic, and possibly the animated-style or effects are less evident with smaller images. Nevertheless, as the final image below shows, the photographs cleanly transferred into vector-based line drawings with a unique look and feel very different from the original. While this may not be desirable or needed for every image on a site, when you require an application that transfers photos to vector images, Vector Magic does it simply, easily, and free of cost, making it a great addition to your set of graphic design tools.
Final Image
For More Information, visit the Vector Magic Website.
- Source: http://vectormagic.com/info/how_to_use_it [↩]
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