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# Last moth, I promise. If It's not you can all bumrape me.


Am I correct in thinking this is a 'vector'?
Cause all the vectors I've seen look just like the 'cutout' filter on Photoshop?
Am I right?
/confused
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Sat 16 Jun 2007, 12:56, archived)
# no a vector has dark rings on its wings that look like eyes.
this is rather good whatever breed of moth it is.

edit/ i should add i know bugger all about vectors other than stuff done in flash is vectors, don't know if that applies to fireworks too. that pen tool thingy scares me to death it's uncontrollable.
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 12:58, archived)
# *Muh-uh-nuh*
A very white one. Here's the other cool pics. (I think)



Oh I do love the filters :)

(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:00, archived)
# A 'vector' is an image made up of shapes created (usually) with bezier curves.
versus a bitmap which is 'painted' on a pixel grid.
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:01, archived)
# Ahhh I see
*doesn't see*
Oh well :)
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:01, archived)
# What's your Vector, Victor?
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:02, archived)
# do we have clearance, Clarence?
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(Mickeyburns, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:04, archived)
# Rodger, Rodger
(I helped save b3ta! Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:10, archived)
# No, that's just the cutout filter :)
Vectors take aaaages.
(Northern Lovely, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:02, archived)
# Dang
I don't have the bother to do anything more than click on "filters"
.
.o)
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:04, archived)
# Try it, the results will be worth it
and nobody'll get patronising that you must've spent aaaaaaaaaages playing around with the cutout settings getting it to look right...
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:06, archived)
# Ages?
5 seconds morelike :P
And I don't know what software to use anyway.
All I've got is photoshop and paint :P
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:09, archived)
# If you'd like to give Real Vectoring™ a go,
try Inkscape. It's free and available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

edit: the website seems to be down. Different Inky Linky
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:14, archived)
# Inkscape sales team?
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:18, archived)
# Can I interest you in some ScotchGuard for you screen
in case you spill your inkscape?

edit: What do you use for your stuffs?
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:21, archived)
# :)
Thanks for the links :)
That sarcasm one really helped ¦D
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:21, archived)
# Hey Dez
u get my gaz?
(I helped save b3ta! P3te "the Meat", Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:19, archived)
# Well...
This isn't a vector as it stands, as it's a jpeg. Which is a bitmap graphic that uses pixels.

Vectors are based on maths rather than pixels.

That's why you can resize a vector upwards but a bitmap image looks like utter shite.

Hmm, that probably didn't help, did it. I'm sure Mr Google will be better at this type of thing than I.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:02, archived)
# Hmm
The images I selected on google came out as .jpg and .gif :S
Does that means they just copied them over into paint or something and saved them as those filetypes?
Gah! Too technical for this early in the morn.
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:06, archived)
# nothing you see on b3ta, or the web is a vector.
as that is a file holder for the mathematical information that creates the picture. You see images created with vector shapes in programs such as illustrator, flash or Xara. What most people post here is actually a basic form od cell shading. They create a path with the pen tool and then fill the shape with colour and continue like that, tracing over their image until they have an image made up of lots of coloured shaped.
There is no 'vectoring' involved because I doubt many of them have huge gigabyte files made up of layers of vector shapes but rather a few layers of traced shapes just like old fashioned cell shading in comic illustration.

Vector imaging is quite complicated and is used in art and design as a means to transport designs to different people allowing them the freedom to edit at any size. b3ta 'vectoring' is tracing over a picture with coloured shapes and sometimes strokes for the less lazy ones to create a coloured traced image. Some wits are now calling these images 'vexels' which you can google because I've said too much and already will be upsetting people.
vexels take time and patience and create fantastic results. Pressing a filter button then posting the results on b3ta is a frivolous waste of thread. You are saying, "look, I pressed a button and the algorithm made me this". It's talentless shite that anyone can do. It'll even get scorned at deviantart.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 14:26, archived)
# Is not :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Sat 16 Jun 2007, 13:04, archived)