Instigator!
Every time I show up, we seem to go down this rabbit hole of the “secret menu” tools that so many people don’t know about.
Blow their mind and do something with an alt-Key + tool lol.
These programs are so huge, with so many features, I don’t know that anyone truly utilizes them (or knows them) to their full capabilities through and through.
Wow, I’ve been duplicating my layers in Photoshop and filling in one of the images to have a solid image in Illustrator. I like the method I’ve been using if I’m planning to expand whatever I’m working on, as it does sometimes shift some lines around a smidge, but what you’ve explained here is awesome!
I’ll have to run some tests on what’s more convenient overall for my process, but a creator can never have too many tools at their disposal, thank you!
This is EXACTLY the tutorial I need this moment. THANK YOU! so very much for taking the time to create this. This is exactly what sets GF above ANY other frickin laser out there. The Community.
@jbmanning5, this tutorial just inspired me to make a quick video tutorial showing the way that I often do this (but just in AI).
Wow saved me using that dang pen tool!! Thank yous!!!
Holy carp this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. I have a different version of photoshop but it worked all the same! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Now if I can find a similar route in Corel Paintshop/CorelDraw, or Gimp and Inkscape…
Hi July,
Not quite the same problem, though I’ve bookmarked it for other uses.
I’m looking for a short cut that is a bit like ‘trace’ software, but avoids the immense number of nodes that they give. A sort of compromise, like when you were plotting a graph at school, you could draw a line through all the data points that you had plotted, that was an approximation of the values.
I have just been given a lnk to some online software that I’ll look at tonight, and if it’s good, I’ll come back to the forum for other peoples comments.
John
Oh…Check for a Simplify function.
I need one of those myself !
Don’t we all!
My latest headache -my green card application requires a police report from any country I’ve lived in for more than one year, since I was 16.
55 years go, I lived in Malaysia, while serving with the British Army, for four years.
The Malaysian Government need a copy of my passport showing the visa stamp when I visited !
Er, that was about five passports ago !
Going round in circles.
Are you kidding? That’s ridiculous. Who keeps old passports?
Bureaucrats ?
Jeesh! Probably.
Just to get back on topic, sort of, the two programs I will look at later are
If anyone has tried either of these, I’d love to hear your reviews.
John
been using photoshop for decades and never new about this.
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Just tested it by making a lasso selection in CS5 and it works perfectly. I already knew I could paste a path from PS into AI, but I didn’t know about making a path from a selection. That’s AMAZING