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# I've only just started to get interested in vectors and stuff again recently.
I almost completely stopped making pics last year, then this year I put my energy into redoing my site, and it's taken ages for me to want to start making new pics again.

So what toys are you missing?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 3:21, archived)
# yes, more sexeh vectors
like this
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 3:30, archived)
# Adventures in makeup
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 3:40, archived)
# My animation shop, sqirlz morph, and all of my photoshop plugins that I manage to get to work with Paint Shop Pro 8
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 3:31, archived)
# I've never used Paint Shop Pro 8
can you use it to make vectors?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 3:48, archived)
# WIth PSP8, you can hand-create beziers, that's about it. SVG support is kind of lame --it's way too fiddly
I personally use an old MS-Dos program called CR2V to create vector traces, then edit them with Inkscape.

I think you'd like Inkscape. It also has a raster to vector function that does a fair job, but you don't get any control other than how many color layers are in the trace.
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 4:02, archived)
# I quite liked playing around with Illustrator's autotrace tool.
You can really fuck it up, get it to do unpredictable things.
In fact I made a couple of pics using autotraced elements that I still quite like. I was blending the traces in with stuff I was doing in photoshop, then re-shopping it.

Inktrace, right. I need to look into that, I've heard you talk about it before. I may even have downloaded it and not installed it...
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 4:10, archived)
# Can't find either of those pics. Then some paper swans

all of a sudden.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 4:25, archived)
# 'inktrace' , arf!
Inkscape, Inkscape, Grandfather
just type it into the googlr thingy
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 4:42, archived)
# Doh.
Well anyway I found it, on The Google.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 4:46, archived)
# the CR2v I mentioned...
There is a MS-Windows program called VectorEye3 which uses the CR2V routine, but has a much more user friendly interface. I don't use it because I don't do vector stuff that much, so I couldn't justify spending the money on it
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 4:06, archived)