Basically it's a form of tracing.Trace shapes over an image, to build up an interpretation of that image. It takes a lot of time (for me anyway) but allows you to go back and fiddle with shapes, colours, transparencies as much as you want.
Im' sure certain b3tans could give you better answers, such as Mofaha or B3ta's resident Queen Vectoria, In Vino Veritas.
Personally I think the great thing about vectors is that they can be sacled up or down to any size, because they are made up of shapes rather than pixels.
EDIT: As others have pointed out, 'vector' is the medium, not the image itself. Also of course many are made from scratch, not traced over bitmap images.
(Im' sure certain b3tans could give you better answers, such as Mofaha or B3ta's resident Queen Vectoria, In Vino Veritas.
Personally I think the great thing about vectors is that they can be sacled up or down to any size, because they are made up of shapes rather than pixels.
EDIT: As others have pointed out, 'vector' is the medium, not the image itself. Also of course many are made from scratch, not traced over bitmap images.
The Glum Reaper cannot solve your problem because he has no jam,
Fri 4 May 2007, 23:43,
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I just remembered...I have a small animation of a vector I made as I built it up, which may illustrate it a bit better.
( The Glum Reaper cannot solve your problem because he has no jam,
Fri 4 May 2007, 23:45,
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Thanks! :)If you're interested in trying some vectoring, I believe Tattyshop/PSP have in-built vector functionality, as does the GIMP (it's just a bit crap). I would recommend a dedicated vector package though, such as Illustrator, or the free Inkscape.
Personally I like Xara Xtreme.
(Personally I like Xara Xtreme.
The Glum Reaper cannot solve your problem because he has no jam,
Fri 4 May 2007, 23:54,
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my attemptbut didnt save the stages :s
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hoodles is in your Afrikas Being Shotz at in CongOs,
Fri 4 May 2007, 23:57,
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I tend to use loads of layers.I made that anim quite quickly by turning layers on and exporting after each one.
( The Glum Reaper cannot solve your problem because he has no jam,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:02,
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^thisexcept with the bobafett anim below i made every shape in the vector visible in turn from the bottom up, grabbing the image each time.
( mutster101 fell over,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:14,
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i didn't see what made it any speshuller than the vector itselfbut it made it onto the popular page, so who am i to argue?
( mutster101 fell over,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:11,
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Noice! The Glum Reaper cannot solve your problem because he has no jam,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:09,
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Alright, folks, stoppitIts not tracing. Its only tracing if youer using the pen tool to trace something. Which is just what everyone does, and calls it a vector, which is technically right, but just not an accurate representation of a vector, since vectors dont describe the picture, just the way it was created.
/drunk rant
(/drunk rant
SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:02,
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*SPANGS*no reason, just random violence in the name of humour.
( mutster101 fell over,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:04,
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I simply cannot b e party to such behaviour SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:11,
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what sort of behaviour would you be party to? mutster101 fell over,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:15,
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I've been saying this for years.People open tattyshop and proceed to create paths with the pen tool. Then they fil and or stroke those paths. They post the image here and call it a vector. It's never been a vector unless all the paths and shapes are saved for future scaling and altering.
Most of the images here are simply traced images of photographs using a path to define where to fill the colour and nothing more.
(Most of the images here are simply traced images of photographs using a path to define where to fill the colour and nothing more.
Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Sat 5 May 2007, 0:27,
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