Central Park View

**Ricardo Almeida** · 20 August 2011, 12:10 AM

Mixing the bitmap tracer and some transparency to make a picture look like a sketch.

100% done in Xara.

**ShapeShifter** · 20 August 2011, 12:54 AM

Neat..
You could also change the light and dark contone then use the LE 'Find Edges'

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**Ricardo Almeida** · 20 August 2011, 01:01 AM

Nice.

Which settings did you use for the bitmap tracer?

**ShapeShifter** · 20 August 2011, 01:09 AM

None, no tracing involved.

**Ricardo Almeida** · 20 August 2011, 01:12 AM

So, what did you do?

**ShapeShifter** · 20 August 2011, 01:19 AM

Like so, see Screen Video

**Ricardo Almeida** · 20 August 2011, 01:26 AM

Originally Posted by ShapeShifter

Like so, see Screen Video

Very interesting.

What you got in the end is a vector or raster image?

**ShapeShifter** · 20 August 2011, 01:51 AM

The same as you started with Ricardo, a bitmap.

You can trace the result if you wanted a scalable vector, though to get the same detail in a trace the Xara Achilles heal shows up when you do (it turns a 148Kb JPG into a 36Mb *.xar file and transforms the program into a lead slug)