Has anyone done remade a book in Illustrator??? ( 1 Views )

1. Hey there...I am trying to recreate a Calvin & Hobbes book in Illustrator...not doing so well...I was wondering if anyone else has redone any kind of book in Illustrator...It looks easier with childrens books since they don't use very many colors...
   
   So...has anyone remade a book in Illustrator??? Pretty time consuming stuff...THANX
   C'YA :cool:
   
   
   (aslý, Timor-Leste)


2. why exactly are you doing this, may i ask?
   
   you can always scan a page, then use the pen tool to copy all the black lines then add fills for the colors.
   
   
   (seda , Tunisia)


3. you know i have illustrator and have never used it. :D
   
   
   (mesut, Somalia)


4. well umm im not sure what you exatly trying to say, to actually contruct a book you would never do it in illustrator you would use Indesign, or quark, but if you talking about illustrations themselves being redone in illustrator then yes you can get a pretty nice look out of it.
   
   
   (esra, Netherlands)


5. i think he's using calv+hobbes as an example that he tries to emulate to practise with illustrator.
   
   
   (CEM, Cuba)


6. well you can do it in illustrator, though there are easier apps to do it in, but if your insitant on illustrator, you can set up multiple pages (there are various ways of doing this- artboard size, layers, hotdoor plugins, etc) Though i would try to find a copy of Adobe Streamline, (illustrators built-in autotrace sucks) - with some practice in streamline you can convert scans to vector images with some fairly good accuracy. -It can be done.. be more specific with your problem..
   
   
   (havinnn, Christmas Island)


7. Quote:

   Originally Posted by naughtybulldog Though i would try to find a copy of Adobe Streamline, (illustrators built-in autotrace sucks) - with some practice in streamline you can convert scans to vector images with some fairly good accuracy. -It can be done.. be more specific with your problem..

   I have Streamline 4.0...I don't understand how to use it tho...if I send someone the pic could one of you do it for me??? There's only like 14-16 colors in the pic...not much...I also heard that streamline was THE prog to use to vector images but I don't know how...maybe someone could do it themselves and tell me how s/he did it...I could learn that way...help files back then weren't very helpful...and this is an OLD program...
   
   
   (çaðrý, Niue)


8. M_B: ill msg you my email, send me what you got and ill see what i can do...
   
   
   (mehmet, Cyprus)


9. Thanx!!!
   
   
   (emirhan, Malta)


10. Here's the pic I need vectorized:
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    I'm using this scan cause my scan isn't as good...
    
    
    (beste_003, Syrian Arab Republic)


11. well if you use streamline its very hard to manage with it afterwords because of the fact that it makes hundreds of achor points, making it very hard to fine tweak a illustrator like that with flat color, and simple lines shouldnt take more then and hour and a half 2 hours to trace in illustrator or corel. Either one or the other will do the job
    
    
    (duygu, Thailand)


12. Would someone plz vectorize it for me plz??? I need it for part of a project I'm working on too...I'll be very greatful...I NEVER forget the ppl who help me out...
    
    
    (Berkay , Micronesia, Federated States of)


13. gimme a day...just gotta reinstall illustrator...just uninstalled it...
    
    i go to school for this kind of stuff...and we just covered converting photographs to vector art...i can show people a pic of me if they want :D
    in vector art of course :)
    
    
    (A.Tekin, Belarus)


14. download this and this. One is straight from streamline, and the other is touched-up in illustrator. Yes, streamline gives you a crapload of paths, and you got to fool with it alot to get it to work, but it has its purposes. Of course if you want a nice clean image, you gotta put in some work. If you need vector to output to die-cut (labels or vynil) forget it. these methods probably wont work the way you need it to. Spend some time learning the pen tool in PS and Illustrator..
    
    Id like to hear other peoples techniques when it comes to this too. I rarely have to do this where I work, I use methods that are fast for me and they work for my jobs.. I know there are better ways, but id like to compare the converted art vs. time put into hand-tracing.
    
    
    (meral, Mayotte)


15. i guess my service is no longer needed....
    /me closes illustrator
    
    
    i hate tracing images for vinyl cutting.....i always make the lines too small then its a bitch to peel and transfer them....
    
    my method: time and effort...all hand done
    
    
    if outlineing(sp?) an image for vinyl(i think this is what method you mean) and im feeling lazy and want it to be all even...i go like this:
    
    draw a line with a stroke of about 6-8 depending on the size of the space i want. go to object>path>outline stroke...then since im outlineing(sp?) a figure(a person maybe) its most likely overlapping one aprt or another...so i go: window>pathfinder and click(option click for you MAC junkies out there...i use macs at school..they suck but i memorized a ton of shortcuts on them so thats all i can really use.....) on the first shape mod "add to shape area"
    
    and then i just finish up the rest of the pic....i can get an example of a traceout of this image i made for an assignment: small large
    
    i have a version thats updated but it looks exactly the same at a glance ...if you want it for some odd reason email me...its only about 1.2-.3 megs as a raw illustrator file especially since its just lines :p
    
    
    so who wants me to continue rambling? :rolleyes:
    
    
    (özlem, Monaco)


16. wow...lots of paths...the second link has a great hobbes but the calvin has doesn't look as good...whatabout photoshop...I was thinking making the colors more solid and either taking that to streamline or mtaking each color to a seperate layer and then save the paths and port them over to Illustrator...any way of doing that???
    
    
    (mukaddes, Marshall Islands)


17. thats nice.. is that the original image or the illustrator trace? i like the shading...
    
    M_B: i did that real quick: my 6 month old limits my time at home on my pc.. i usually do all my work that requires concentration "at work" where i have more free time :D
    
    im sure you would get better results loading it into ps and posterising the image down to 8-16 color, (using indexed colors).. ill play with it some more tomorrow
    
    
    (emrah, Marshall Islands)

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