Why Image Trace Fails: A Superior Method for Vectorizing Designs

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @CharleyPangus
    @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

    The first 500 people to use my link skl.sh/charleypangus05241 will get a 1-month free trial of Skillshare premium!

  • @tomislavherega7909
    @tomislavherega7909 6 месяцев назад +14

    I’ve been using this method for a while now, and a downside you should be aware of are compound shapes it may create

  • @Coldie42
    @Coldie42 4 месяца назад +1

    ive been following you for years. happy to see you thriving and providing such quality process for the creative community

  • @TheWaelmorgan77
    @TheWaelmorgan77 6 месяцев назад +10

    That is a great video. I think I would like to see how you did the color separation. If you have this already on another video, would you kindly share its link..Thanks again

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +5

      Hey thanks for watching!
      Check this out: ruclips.net/video/gxqATp6gDnU/видео.htmlsi=ylW06dXykfKEFJWk

    • @TheWaelmorgan77
      @TheWaelmorgan77 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus thanks a lot. You are the man

  • @romanellod
    @romanellod 4 месяца назад +2

    Really good technique! I have been doing it for over 15 years and I have never thought about doing like that!
    Well done!

  • @clairemardesich8576
    @clairemardesich8576 6 месяцев назад +5

    Yet again you've changed my life! Thank you so much, Charley!

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Wow what a huge compliment! Thank you for watching. ❤️

  • @wesleybilly8097
    @wesleybilly8097 День назад

    Good video. I have been trying to figure out how to make s tuff and put it on a store. Thank you.

  • @Elephant70
    @Elephant70 3 месяца назад +2

    thank you! New ... learning on my own ... stupid question but here it is anyway: Once I have the picture vectored, colored, sized, etc. and ready to save as an Ai file for a tshirt is there anything else I need to do to the vector ... such as group or lock all the pieces together somehow?

  • @caiotak
    @caiotak 6 месяцев назад +1

    thats insane, thanks, i used to separate the color basicly the same way and export as a bitmap, the downside was that i could not get away from that bitmap look.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  5 месяцев назад

      @@caiotak yeah it can be tricky for sure! Glad you enjoyed my video.

  • @h2nnes869
    @h2nnes869 22 дня назад

    Thank you this was super helpful, especially with high detail patterns with edges!

  • @Lawdhavemercyyy
    @Lawdhavemercyyy 6 месяцев назад +2

    Is there a tutorial for the technique you used to do this wolf? With the different colours and how you got the wolf to the point it is at in this video?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      This is a good one! ruclips.net/video/gxqATp6gDnU/видео.htmlsi=85m4tXo0D5Y6falg

  • @theMoonStruckGuy
    @theMoonStruckGuy 6 месяцев назад +3

    How do you separate color????
    This is awesome by the way...

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Hey! Thank you for watching. Check my last 3 videos and I have a color separation video.

  • @graphicallydeb9897
    @graphicallydeb9897 6 месяцев назад +2

    Wow! I’ve looked for this many times.. and today, I didn’t look and there you are!

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Yessssss I love hearing this.

  • @interfectumstudios
    @interfectumstudios 6 месяцев назад +3

    Dude thank you! This was beyond helpful. My mind is totally blown right now.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      🙏🏼😊

    • @extraclip
      @extraclip 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus Does this work in inkscape?

  • @RjPerry1971
    @RjPerry1971 6 месяцев назад +2

    Great video, How would I start with an image in photoshop that I didn't create and it had no layers already?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      I uploaded a video recently going over color separation. I would watch that video! Let me know if you have questions 🙏🏼

    • @RjPerry1971
      @RjPerry1971 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus Thank you, do you happen to know the title of that video?

  • @aidanoliver8209
    @aidanoliver8209 6 месяцев назад +2

    How was the red and white folder created? Doesn't this method select the whole image? How did you seperate those parts of the image prior?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      I did some prior color separation. I made a video recently on this. It’s about the 3rd video before this one. 🙏🏼

    • @aidanoliver8209
      @aidanoliver8209 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus Thanks for being patient and replying man. I'll look at that.

  • @vladimirjunior1654
    @vladimirjunior1654 6 месяцев назад +1

    Nice video! But, after you open the EPS from PS, isn't the separated layers is a group of clipping mask shape + raster image with the chosen color? Mine always have that, so i need to unclip first all the layers and leave only the shape and change color directly from Illustrator so now i can change the color freely

  • @jbh4934
    @jbh4934 Месяц назад

    Hi thx for the info! Any idea why the include vector data would be greyed out? Also do we have to toggle something to let photoshop create more than two paths?...Running 2024 on a new Mac Book Pro

  • @AsadAraiz
    @AsadAraiz 6 месяцев назад +1

    Can you tell me a method where a gradiant color is used and after image trace the color are not right

  • @BigDub24
    @BigDub24 6 месяцев назад +2

    So you need the original files with layers of you take an image from google or a client gives you a jpeg I guess the steps will be slightly different

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Yeah steps can change depending on the Situation.

  • @TheLastDropSobrietyPodcast
    @TheLastDropSobrietyPodcast 6 месяцев назад +2

    Solid! And you can take this a step further by Separating everything out in spot channels in PSD 1st. No More Pesky Image Trace!!

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Exactly! So many possibilities. Bye bye image trace. Haha

  • @MphoBoshoga
    @MphoBoshoga 6 месяцев назад +1

    Yo crazy video! Do you know what it means if the eps file fails to open because of an “unknown error"?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  2 месяца назад

      Could be a software issue. Might want to re-install Photoshop

  • @latenightcanvas147
    @latenightcanvas147 6 месяцев назад +1

    Have any tips on creating lino cut style graphics?

  • @thejagman22
    @thejagman22 6 месяцев назад +3

    This method is sort of just directly converting pixels into vector shapes, by which I mean you get jagged edges and in some cases tiny squares that used to be pixels. Plus you're gonna end up with a ton of vector data due to there being MILLIONS of vector points.
    Most of the time when you're wanting to convert art to vectors, part of the purpose is to smooth it out somewhat (a logo, for example) and then, yes, that smooth data can be printed at any size.
    But with this method, the resulting vectors resemble pixelation so much, that if you printed in large format, it's going to look sort of pixelated anyway. And if you're not going to print at large scale, then why convert it at all?
    It's an interesting approach, but I can't really see a scenario where this conversion would be useful...

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      That’s the nature of converting any raster image to vector… this method at least gives you better results than image trace. When printed, it will be hard to tell.

    • @thejagman22
      @thejagman22 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@CharleyPangus No, not ANY raster image - if you have a relatively simple logo or line drawing, with flat colours, image trace actually does a pretty good job at converting it into vector with the right settings, and this is what it's intended for, not photographic or super complex images like your example.
      I can't work out why it's necessary to convert a raster image such as the one in your example to vector when it could be printed "as-is", a raster/bitmap. What's a possible application?
      I've tried the technique and to me, the outcome basically looks like a raster image, but now it's made of vectors and so my question remains - why?

    • @krayne2084
      @krayne2084 6 месяцев назад

      The only use case I can think of is that 3D modelling software likes vector images more than other images for converting into 3D solids

  • @zeyele
    @zeyele 6 месяцев назад +1

    If you made paths in Ph, don't you already have a vector? Is it needed to import it in illustrator?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      You still have to import into Illustrator to save a proper SVG file. For example, my new xTools software required a SVG file.
      I also noticed when not imported into illustrator my lines still looked a little blurry in photoshop. I’ll have to test this more but that’s my initial findings.

    • @zeyele
      @zeyele 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus thx

  • @thedesignergamer
    @thedesignergamer 6 месяцев назад +1

    Cool. This method might work for images that were made with separate layers for each color. What about flattened images?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  2 месяца назад +1

      Yes, absolutely

    • @thedesignergamer
      @thedesignergamer 2 месяца назад

      @@CharleyPangus But probably not as smoothly as if you have separate layers.

  • @stevengarrison1019
    @stevengarrison1019 6 месяцев назад +1

    Can this work for example If I was making images from Ideogram then turning them into vector like this?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      I would have to see an example but I’m sure it can work as long as your layers are separated in Photoshop.

    • @stevengarrison1019
      @stevengarrison1019 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus Im trying like a snake wrapped around a skull for a tshirt design im trying to put together

    • @stevengarrison1019
      @stevengarrison1019 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus Because the way Im doing it right now is just taken it into photoshop & taking the white background out & making it a png then upscaling it.

  • @PufonTV
    @PufonTV 2 месяца назад

    Wow! Its so easy to work now with complex images! Tnx!

  • @MochKholil-cm3mz
    @MochKholil-cm3mz 6 месяцев назад +1

    you really did a good tutorial brow, thanks a lot. it works perfectly

  • @dannyabraham7604
    @dannyabraham7604 11 дней назад

    I saved mine as EPS and it does not open inillustrator. I then tried exporting paths to illustrator and it doesnt have the colour when i open the file... does anyone have a solution... there was a skip in the video after you saved the EPS file and i feel like i have missed something. Any help is appreciated!

  • @The_Curse
    @The_Curse 6 месяцев назад +1

    Yet again- Charlie proving he is dope AF

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Dude this just made my entire day! Seriously thank you for the kind words. 🙏🏼

    • @The_Curse
      @The_Curse 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus absolutely dude. I’ve learned a lot of great techniques from you. Keep up the good vids 🤘🏼🤘🏼

  • @radelk
    @radelk 3 месяца назад +1

    how do you separate the colors though?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  3 месяца назад

      What do you mean? If you have discord, join my community and we can go into detail! Thanks for the support and comment.

  • @JCaT52
    @JCaT52 6 месяцев назад +1

    I have a raster image that was sent to me that isn’t layered or color separated and image trace is failing at. Idk where to even begin lol. I only have illustrator…

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Join my discord community and send me the art! Would love to take a look. 🙏🏼discord.gg/DzvC5NAf

  • @eross21
    @eross21 6 месяцев назад +1

    can this be done with affinity photo and affinity designer ?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  2 месяца назад

      I’m sure it could be achieved with similar results.

  • @BrushBash
    @BrushBash 6 месяцев назад

    Hello, how to select different color on raster image and group it by color? this first step on this methode right?

  • @CoZTymMerchem
    @CoZTymMerchem 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks, that's a great one! I was wondering if something similar can be done in GIMP. And guess what? It's doable! Thanks again for this video.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Hey thank you for watching! It would be fun to try to use GIMP to design a T-shirt haha. Maybe soon. Really cool to know this method can work in GIMP too.

    • @CoZTymMerchem
      @CoZTymMerchem 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@CharleyPangus GIMP is like a car from 90s. You can still drive it, but it's missing a lot of stuff ;)

  • @CrossMyHeart_clothing
    @CrossMyHeart_clothing 6 месяцев назад +2

    Broooo!! You are the effing man! So many old designs that I wasn’t happy with I may have to resurrect now 🤘🏼

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Haha thank you! So happy to hear this! 😎❤️

  • @Jjvv556
    @Jjvv556 6 месяцев назад

    Any tips on my work path dont come out as krispy? Or is that the bet it does?

  • @karimelbozidi8289
    @karimelbozidi8289 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you, I still learn from you every time. 💪💪💪

  • @niarodriguez6494
    @niarodriguez6494 12 дней назад

    does this only work for images? i had a halftone image with plain type and it fucked up the appearance of the type... looks like it was vectorized in illustrator but worse lol

  • @brandinojam24
    @brandinojam24 3 месяца назад +1

    The image trace sample of the wolf image has the best texture. I believed it was the raster image from photoshop.

  • @roiblack8587
    @roiblack8587 3 месяца назад +1

    Wow. This is a neat tipp. Thank you so much.

  • @MaxWeir
    @MaxWeir 6 месяцев назад +2

    What if you don’t have your layers separated and Photoshop and just have a flat image?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      This method works best when you have layers or 1 color.

  • @yusa4467
    @yusa4467 5 месяцев назад +1

    why my work path doesnt come out good. it is not like my drawing. is it because my drawing is to small? its 25x25 on 300ppi.

  • @entropyfun
    @entropyfun 2 месяца назад

    Maybe a noob question, but how do you separate colors into different layers/folders? Let's say I want to do this with a photo.

  • @uno8084
    @uno8084 2 месяца назад

    PLEASEEEE...ive been trying to image trace a logo ive made but its on a transparent background and all turns white once ive imaged traced. please help if anyone knows a work around.

  • @main_channel-ik2pt
    @main_channel-ik2pt 6 месяцев назад +1

    but how did you separate the layers?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      I made a video about it about 3 videos ago. You will see it on my recent uploads 🙏🏼

  • @mikeymumble8196
    @mikeymumble8196 6 месяцев назад +2

    This is game changing!

  • @nanoraygamingmanagement8896
    @nanoraygamingmanagement8896 6 месяцев назад

    cmd and alt for mac and for window pc what should we do?

  • @victorff111
    @victorff111 6 месяцев назад

    how did u import into illustrator?? U didn't show it

  • @Md.ArifulKazi
    @Md.ArifulKazi 6 месяцев назад +1

    How to separate the colors??

  • @caleighwears
    @caleighwears 6 месяцев назад +1

    Super sick as always! Just signed up for skill share as well!

  • @tiffanyw3794
    @tiffanyw3794 3 месяца назад

    So why do we illustrator when we can export as a svg from photoshop?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  2 месяца назад

      It’s not the same. I’ve tested this and the files are almost a “fake vector” not a true vector.

    • @tiffanyw3794
      @tiffanyw3794 2 месяца назад

      @@CharleyPangus when upload my files to cricut design space I don’t get errors. How can you tell if it’s not a true vector. Also if I upload tp illustrator it has nodes

  • @Designollo
    @Designollo 6 месяцев назад +1

    This is Game changer! Thanks man!

  • @LeviJonMeyer
    @LeviJonMeyer 6 месяцев назад +1

    Game changer for screen printing😮‍💨

  • @Maya-wo4mk
    @Maya-wo4mk Месяц назад

    omg this is amazing!! damn thanks so much

  • @ladydia3928
    @ladydia3928 6 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic work-around!

  • @Zentron
    @Zentron 6 месяцев назад +1

    This'd look really good as the main graphic of a beer bottle label!

  • @tsewangdorjee2003
    @tsewangdorjee2003 6 месяцев назад +1

    Good learning. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🙏👍

  • @sikapinoytv6106
    @sikapinoytv6106 3 месяца назад +1

    HOW YOU SEPARATE COLORS?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  2 месяца назад

      I have other videos on my channel that go over this method 👍🏼

  • @amypangus9941
    @amypangus9941 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great tutorial!! 🙌🏻🔥

  • @loathingboi
    @loathingboi 6 месяцев назад +1

    Really helpful, thank you!

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Of course thanks for watching 🙏🏼

  • @hellboundjperry
    @hellboundjperry 3 месяца назад

    it doesn't give me an option to save as an eps.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  2 месяца назад

      That’s strange! I would slow down the video and re-watch

    • @hellboundjperry
      @hellboundjperry 2 месяца назад

      @@CharleyPangus i figured out the problem! Thanks for the response man! Love your videos!

  • @djvertical
    @djvertical 6 месяцев назад +1

    That’s super dope. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  • @mtyler3047
    @mtyler3047 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you so much for this!

  • @schravin
    @schravin 6 месяцев назад +1

    Yoo!! Mind blown had no idea this was a thing 🤝 👏

  • @tygaman1110
    @tygaman1110 6 месяцев назад +1

    so why doesn't image trace use a similar or even the same workflow?

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Lacks control and detail. Just not great for this type of workflow shown in my video.

  • @dormaettu302
    @dormaettu302 4 месяца назад +1

    this is great thanks a lot

  • @rehmansoofi
    @rehmansoofi 4 месяца назад +1

    Great video sir

  • @Liquixe
    @Liquixe 6 месяцев назад +13

    Cool method, but separating the colors from a raster image is an entire process on its own.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Yup! I have a video on that. 🙏🏼

    • @danukool
      @danukool 6 месяцев назад +1

      Not if you have your own designs and label them

    • @SupremeStreamsTV
      @SupremeStreamsTV Месяц назад

      @@CharleyPangus where is it?

  • @Omerorange1-y3j
    @Omerorange1-y3j 6 месяцев назад +1

    Subscribed done. thanks for sharing

  • @jeffgearhart1754
    @jeffgearhart1754 5 месяцев назад +1

    If I merge the layers, I lose the ability to color change

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  2 месяца назад

      You wouldn’t want to merch them unless you’re separating colors.

  • @mashukkhan9033
    @mashukkhan9033 6 месяцев назад +1

    I love this.

  • @Frostify
    @Frostify 6 месяцев назад +1

    KILLER VIDEO BROTHER

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Thank you 😊

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Congrats on your recent videos too! I saw one took off! Well deserved. 🙏🏼

  • @JSXVGE
    @JSXVGE 6 месяцев назад

    Your I.D photos are in there but barely visible

  • @makaaymv
    @makaaymv 6 месяцев назад

    but still this method just for limited images as for several seps colors, its still just not for all images

  • @unmutual666
    @unmutual666 5 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome

  • @tonmoy_graphics
    @tonmoy_graphics 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you so much, bro If possible can you please make a video about how we can find clients and make a consistent income? I'm working on Fiverr but it's not so consistent. If you can help that will be a game changer for people like me. Thanks again, and I wish you the very best.👍

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      I touched on this topic a few times but I definitely think it’s something I can touch on again soon.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Main thing is networking. Cold outreach. Consistency.

    • @tonmoy_graphics
      @tonmoy_graphics 6 месяцев назад

      @@CharleyPangus Thanks can you please give me some clues on how can I reach and build networking?

  • @lastlight05
    @lastlight05 6 месяцев назад

    How about starting with creating the color seps. That's the most important part.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      I’ve made about 10-20 videos on color separation. If you watched my videos you would of knew that lol

  • @Heapsgoodmerch
    @Heapsgoodmerch 6 месяцев назад

    Vector Ai will change your life. Literally 2 clicks and it’s 99.9% perfect

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      I’ve used vector AI before and it’s definitely not 99.9% perfect. It also doesn’t color separate your layers for you lol

    • @ikku4321
      @ikku4321 6 месяцев назад

      You don't even need to draw the wolf soon, yepiiiii.

  • @ChizzyNdukweN
    @ChizzyNdukweN 6 месяцев назад

    The issue with this method is when you encounter images with more than 3,4,5 colours in them. It gets tasking fast

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      It’s worth it though for quality results. Nothing great can always be easy.

  • @ibidesign
    @ibidesign 6 месяцев назад +2

    Aw, YT's algorithm tricked me! I was so excited to see this pop up. Then soon realized you begin the key tasks in Photoshop, not Adobe Illustrator. Sadness...

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Ok? 👍🏼
      Don’t watch lol. Plenty of other viewers loved the video. 😎

  • @JimNichols
    @JimNichols 6 месяцев назад +1

    Now the preface of this assumes I know how to break a .jpeg into composite color layers ..... lol.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад +1

      Check my last 2-3 videos. I do full layer separation breakdown. 👍🏼

  • @juice3434
    @juice3434 6 месяцев назад +1

    *in Gordon ramsey* finally, some good f%#£king food

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  6 месяцев назад

      Haha yes!! I love me some Hell’s Kitchen.

  • @TheJack2459
    @TheJack2459 20 дней назад

    sponsors on your 5 minute video my goodness. If you see a bridge...

  • @juanpaoloescopete
    @juanpaoloescopete Месяц назад +1

    You look like that russian heavy weight boxing champ

  • @ardentlions6636
    @ardentlions6636 Месяц назад

    If image trace is not your thing then use the damn pen tool and stop being lazy. People want stellar results but don’t want to put in the time and effort.

  • @IzakNiemann
    @IzakNiemann 5 месяцев назад

    Not well enough explained.

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  5 месяцев назад

      @@IzakNiemann your opinion. lol

    • @IzakNiemann
      @IzakNiemann 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@CharleyPangus My opinion matters. Not well enough explained. Period.

  • @random7422
    @random7422 Месяц назад

    Boring

    • @CharleyPangus
      @CharleyPangus  Месяц назад

      Yet you clicked and commented. Get a life lol