LiveBrush

[iamtheblues]

Thanks for the info, Steve. Could you furnish me with a link, or otherwise point me to the source?
Bob.

[mwenz]

Take a look at the FAQ.

http://www.livebrush.com/faq.html#question11

Mike

[handrawn]

thats the link - seems like the support forum is not active

[mwenz]

I look at LiveBrush--which is not in active development--like a PhotoShop plug-in. It can be used as an enhancement to a composited drawing, but it is not necessarily *the* drawing or illustration. So the lack of vector export to me is not a big deal. However, one can export, use VectorMagic, another trace app, AI or what not to covert it to vector if needed if the LB image is not too complicated, or export it in various layers and go through the tracing.

Take care, Mike

[mwenz]

Hello Bob,

I have attached a screen shot of using LB and exporting as a PNG image, incorporated in a fake business logo. The other is an attachment of taking the plainest of your sample images and converting it to vector and is a XAR file now.

Once the trace is inside Xara, I selected each part of the imported trace, switched to the shape tool (F4), selected all the nodes for the selection, then used the smoothing slider, typically to about 15% or so. Selected the next item, smoothed it etc.

You can export without the background, btw. So I had to first use select color in PS and cut out the low res bitmap from you attachment. I think it did a fair job. Obviously tracing depends on a couple things, one of which is the complexity. Taking an export into PS or another image editing application and changing the color to a solid black will help.

Take care, Mike

[iamtheblues]

Thanks for the heads up on line export and also the hints and tips. Shame that the LiveBrush forums aren't working. Here is something I made using a bunch of different applications.
The spatter was made in LiveBrush and the layers exported as a .png.
The export resolution is quite poor, so I used SmillaEnlarger (free) http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageenlarger/ to enlarge the .png by x900.
I placed the result in Illustrator CS6 and did an automatic trace, then expanded and grouped the result and saved as a .pdf.
I imported the .pdf into XDP 7 re-coloured the shapes to a nice bloody red, and copied them to the clipboard. Cloned the shapes and coloured the duplicate white. Offset the clone slightly over the red shapes and sliced the two objects to create a thin white edge which I clipped to the red shape beneath to give depth and shine to the blood.
Bob.

[wizard509]

Nice work Bob.

[Big Frank]

I have attached a screen shot of using LB and exporting as a PNG image, incorporated in a fake business logo.

nice logo - there are painters and decoraters who would die for a business card like that

[mwenz]

Thank you, Frank.

If you find some use for it, please feel free to use the Xara file and make some dollars. Or Francs, Euros or whatever!

Take care, Mike