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Illustrator vs. Inkscape
Image tracing match

I had to vectorize an illustration I have made for a client, and first tried Illustrator, with really poor results (as you can see below), and this despite trying every possible combination of settings. I just never looked even halfway decent.
Then I tried #inkscape and to my surprise it produced an excellent result, even with the default settings!
Ok… I shouldn't be surprised actually 😀

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An image showing the black&white tracing result through both Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape. The left image is all jagged, and lacks both precision and clarity. The right image, produced with Inkscape looks almost like the original.
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Alien
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Alien
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Do you have any manual on how did you do that around? (In ink scape, I have no interest in Illustrator) Would be very helpful for me
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Hannes Papernoise
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Hannes Papernoise
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@alien
I just went with the default settings here:
Of course, this will not work the same for all kinds of images.
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Earsmeardius
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Earsmeardius
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That really is pretty good.
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Lumiukko 🇺🇦
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@earsmeardius ya I'm really surprised. Last time I tried I got so many unnecessary artefacts. But I guess it works also way better with black and white pics?

BTW, are the bicycle wheels modeled as circles in the vector format or approximated in a different way?

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Hannes Papernoise
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@lumiukko @earsmeardius
Indeed I was surprised as well. Previous attempts haven't produced great results. Maybe they changed something in the meantime (I'm using v.1.4) or maybe it's, like you say, just better for black&white drawings like this one.

The original drawing was made in Krita and I think I used the circle tool to draw the wheels.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell
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I think the thing about inkescape which I played around with on and off is I hated it’s ux. Maybe they’ve managed to make it look little less weird.

I use blender, I use krita, I use gimp and the interface for Inkscape is just felt really cheesy.

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Martin Owens
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
It's actually moon dust from a Cheddar gorge meteorite.

If you're on windows, you probably got the worst theme enabled, it does look better elsewhere.

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