How to extract detailed work

**DGehman** · 28 July 2007, 12:49 PM

The Xar file.

No excuse, except I should have been mowing the lawn, and this is more fun -- and I'm trying to learn how to reproduce engraved artwork, so it's been good practice.

**Egg Bramhill** · 28 July 2007, 03:30 PM

Drawing this is very relaxing. Here's my vector attempt so far.

**mightyfun** · 28 July 2007, 03:32 PM

Thank you everyone.

Yes the resolution isn't the best. I have the image in a book and I think I'll have to scan it in for a better result.

I love what everyone has done with the image.

I'll have to play around some more to see if I can use if for my project.

Thanks,

Jen

**molucca** · 28 July 2007, 04:21 PM

I have noticed a difference in recoloring depending of black or gray and left or right click.

More study for me.

Rich

**DGehman** · 28 July 2007, 10:42 PM

I'm with Egg that hand-drawing these is relaxing, but -- I just downloaded Inkscape and tried out the auto trace.

Handrawn, I owe you an apology - that's an extremely useful and intelligent tracer, even with the tiny Dover files that are in my ancient IMSI Masterclips CDs.

And it's fun to keep clicking on Simplify [path] to watch the number of nodes going steadily down.

And that's with only the default settings. Thanks for the pointer.

**handrawn** · 28 July 2007, 10:57 PM

Thanks due to Peter Selinger for writing the original tracer inkscape uses potrace - http://potrace.sourceforge.net/

Its the best tracer I know for vectorising my pen and ink drawing scans