One of the hardest things to accomplish in vector illustration is a halftone, which is a way of reproducing a monochrome image using only dots of varying sizes. Halftones are especially important for ...

Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace feature is a phenomenal way to transform a raster image into a vector image—or to put it more plainly—to turn a photograph into a drawing. Placing a raster image into ...

This tutorial shows you how to vectorize an image using Illustrator. Many of us just view all images as the same, nothing particularly different. Until we are working with images in a project and the ...

Graphic designers and print-production specialists often face the need to redraw graphics to replace low-resolution bitmaps of dubious quality. Your clients may submit website images of logos and line ...

Transforming a scanned signature into vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator offers several advantages. First, you can enlarge the resulting drawing exponentially without pixelation or distortion. Second ...

The first part of this two-part feature on vector editing tools outlined the history and background of vector image creation and examined Inkscape, an open-source vector editing application, and ...