Best Practice to Recreate Image?

Hi,
  I have the following image that I want to vectorized (I think this is the right term) into AI.
  All I really want to do is duplicate the image or remove the the (white) background out of this picture & for the most part, will keep the object itself as is.  May consider changing its color later, but for now, that's not the intent.
     What is the best & easiest practice to take this picture image & duplicate it into AI?
Thanks

lsb4uebay wrote:
Hi Wade & Jacob,
     Seriously?  Tracing is my best option?  Even though this part may not be highly complex to trace, it still takes a bit of time to trace it.  Perhaps, because I'm a novice to, I don't seem to get an exact overlay, which for this part is not a big deal.  However, I have more complex parts that will be more difficult to trace & take signficantly more time.
  As mentioned previously, I basically have the desired image now, including the current color scheme, but because this is a '.jpg', '.tif', or whatever file format it came from, show the background that I'm hoping AI can remove.
     Doesn't Live Trace work without signficantly distorting line weights or colors or breaking the image up into multiple segements that ends up being more work then it's worth?  Or is there another AI feature that I'm not aware of that work well?
Thanks
Well you see Jacob and the other contributors here as well as myself invested many years to develop our skills and the reason we did so is so that we can do things like trace the art work or like the original artist did, create it from scratch.
The idea that since you are a novice you should not have to invest this time might be more foreign to us than the idea that you will have to learn to do what we can do even though we are experience.
You do realize that there was an artist who actually created this art and there was nothing to automatically generate this final product and if there are many of these items that have to be recreated and you do not have the skills to recreate them that probably means you have to hire someone that does have the skills and who has invested the time to be able to do so.
To tel you the truth it is kind of insulting that someone would think they should not have to spend such time as they do not have the time to invest like us poor fools.
But if you can get live trace to do what you want more power to you.
BTW if you decide to try and learn and spend some tie creating this art you might actually find it fun even though hard work.
Good luck.

Similar Messages

  • Best practice?-store images outside the WAR file?

    I have an EAR project with several thousand images that are constantly changing. I do not want to store the images in the WAR project since it will take an extremely long time to redeploy with every image change. What is the best practice for storing images? Is it proper to put them in the WAR and re-deploy? Or is there a better solution?

    Perryier wrote:
    Can you expand on this? Where do they get deployed and in what format? How do I point to them on a jsp?
    I am using Sun Application server 9.0, and I don't really think this has a "stand alone" web server. How will this impact it?You could install any web server you want (Apache?). The request comes in and if the request matches something like .jpg or .gif or whatever, you serve up the file. If you have a request for a jsp or what not, you forward the request to the app server (Sun App Server in your case). i.e. your web server acts as a content-aware proxy.

  • What are the Best Practices for Optimizing Images in InDesign Files

    Is there a best practice for using images InDesign to optimize the document before converting to a PDF? Specifically, what I'm asking is, will the PDF file compress better if the images are cropped prior to placing them in Indesign? I'd like to know the answer for both creating PDF files for printing using images that are 300dpi and for creating PDF files for online delivery using images that are 72dpi. I have an employee that insists images need to be cropped to actual dimensions before placing in the InDesign document. I've never done it that way and believe that her recommended process is way too time consuming and leaves you with no leeway to tweak your page design since the images are tightly cropped.

    As for absolute cropping, I agree with your stance. Until the layout is fixed, preserving your ability to easily manipulate photo size and positioning is key.
    Some clever image management methods have been described in the discussion forums, and one that appealed most to me was the use of duplicate linked image folders. Having a high-res (CMYK) folder and a low-res (RGB) folder to switch between for different output enables you to use both to your advantage. Use the low-res images for layout, for internal proofing, and for EPUB/online PDF/HTML output. Then it's simply a quick switch to the high-res image folder for print purposes. You can easily prepare the alternate collection of images with a Photoshop batch convert script or with the Photoshop Image Processor. Save your presets!

  • Best practice for moving images between projects?

    Hey all,
    I have a project that has an album inside of it. I want to move the album, containing all of the photographs to a new project. If I drag the photos individually to the new project it moves them successfully although they now don't belong to an album in their new project. If I drag the album itself it moves the album and photographs but leaves the photos in the original project as well.
    Does anyone have some best practice ideas for this scenario?
    Thanks in advance for any help!

    As you have discovered if the drop target is the project the images move projects. If the drop target is an album the images show up in the album but do not actually move anywhere. Moving albums does nothing to move masters. So...
    Select all of the images in the album. Drag them to the new project and then drag the album to the new project. Simple enough.
    RB

  • Best practices for placing images in epubs

    Okay, I've read the books, I've watched the tutes and I'm still at a loss on the best way to add images to InDesign 5.5 documents that I will convert to ePub. The images are created in Photoshop at 300 dpi and sized at 800by600. And yet when I place them in InDesign and create the ePub, the images display poorly in ADE and other readers. What is the magic formula for adding images to my ePubs?
    Thanks in advance
    Chris

    Steve/Jongware:
    My thanks for your responses.
    Very good point to look at the images within the epub file. They are 72 dpi images, so it would seem that InDesign is indeed lowering the resolution. I had thought I tried every variation of the available settings within InDesign to avoid this but it would seem to not be the case. If you have any specific suggestions about what setting is causing this, that would be great.
    Viewing the images in the target device is of course ideal. I'm creating this for a wide range of online bookstores, so what device it will be viewed on can't be known. Since ADE drives more than 50 devices, I had hoped that would at least prove to be a reliable base of some sort -- disappointing to hear that ADE can not be trusted in that regard. I had assumed I could proof the book in that before converting to mobi and proofing on a Kindle.
    Why would anyone insert 300 dpi images, you ask? In its publishing guidelines, Amazon says: "To future-proof the content, save images in 300 dpi" Is this then bad advice on their part? Elizabeth Castro echoes this recommendation in her excellent book on the subject, by the way. It's rather difficult to know just what to do, I must admit. But I guess we're still in the early days of eBook creation, with best practices still being in a state of flux.
    Once again, my thanks for sharing your experience.
    Chris

  • SCOM 2012 Agent - Best Practices with Base Images

    I've read through the
    SCOM 2012 agent installation methods technet article, as well as how to
    install the SCOM 2012 agent via command line, but don't see any best practices in regards to how to include the SCOM 2012 agent in a base workstation image. My understanding is that the SCOM agent's unique identifier is created at the time of client installation,
    is this correct? I need to ensure that this is a supported configuration before I can recommend it. 
    If it is supported, and it does work the way I think it does, I'm trying to find out a way to strip out the unique information so that a new client GUID will be created after the machine is sysprepped, similar to how the SCCM client should be stripped of
    unique data when preparing a base image. 
    Has anyone successfully included a SCOM 2012 (or 2007 for that matter) agent in their base image?
    Thanks, 
    Joe

    Hi
    It is fine to build the agent into a base image but you then need to have a way to assign the agent to a management group. SCOM does this via AD Integration:
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc950514.aspx
    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2008/03/20/opsmgr-ad-integration-how-it-works.aspx
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/archive/2010/06/14/ad-integration-considerations.aspx
    http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/active-directory-ad-integration-when-to.html
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212922.aspx
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2008/01/02/understanding-how-active-directory-integration-feature-works-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx
    You have to be careful in environments with multiple forests if no trust exists.
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/smsandmom/archive/2008/05/21/opsmgr-2007-how-to-enable-ad-integration-for-an-untrusted-domain.aspx
    http://rburri.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/untrusted-ad-integration-suppress-misleading-runas-alerts/
    You might also want to consider group policy or SCCM as methods for installing agents.
    Cheers
    Graham
    Regards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! -
    http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk
    View OpsMgr tips and tricks at
    http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

  • Best practice for increasing image processing speed

    Are there best practises for efficient image processing so that the overall perfomance speed will be improved? I have a need to do near real time image processing (threshold, filtering, particle analysis/cleaning and measurements) at 10fps. So far I am not satisfied with my cycle time so I am wondering if there are documented ways to speed up performance.
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    Hi,
    Navigates to the "Vision and Motion" palette, then "Vision Utilities" and "Image Management" palette, you will find ther the "IMAQ multi-core options" vi.
    You will be able to set or get the number of cores used by the IMAQ functions.
    Regards

  • Best Practice - load external image including rollovers

    I am attempting to use the loader component to load an
    external jpg, but experience issues having my flash app
    successfully load a roll-over image from an external source when
    the user rolls over the intital jpg. I am not a flash developer
    (actually a .net developer trying to help a graphics guy out).
    I started with the loader component, converted it to a movie
    clip and then utilized the on(rollover) and on(rollout) events to
    change the loader component's contentPath property at runtime via
    ActionScript. I am not getting consistent results with this
    strategy - what is the best way to accomplish this? Also note I
    tried converted to a button, which seemed more logical, but the
    loader component doesn't seem to like being converted to a button.
    Regards,
    Daflookie

    Daflookie,
    > I started with the loader component, converted it to a
    movie
    > clip and then utilized the on(rollover) and on(rollout)
    events
    > to change the loader component's contentPath property at
    > runtime via ActionScript. I am not getting consistent
    results
    Check out the Loader class in the Components Language
    Reference. Loader
    extends MovieClip, so there's no need to convert to a movie
    clip symbol. In
    addition, I recommend scrapping on() in favor of MovieClip
    events, which
    will probably be closer to your .NET point of view that the
    older
    on/onClipEvent approach to event handling (those are Flash
    5-era).
    Honestly, though, if you simply want to load images, I would
    forego the
    Loader component (no need for all that overhead) and use
    MovieClipLoader to
    load your images into the user's Internet cache. You'll see a
    good handful
    of events under that class listing as well (see the
    ActionScript 2.0
    Language Reference).
    David Stiller
    Adobe Community Expert
    Dev blog,
    http://www.quip.net/blog/
    "Luck is the residue of good design."

  • Best practice for adding images to a RH8 HTML project?

    I'm working on a Word to RH8 HTML conversion. The images in Word are SNAG images but the resolution is poor and some of the images may need to be recreated from scratch again. Going forward I imagine I should work on getting them right in Snagit9. Any suggestions?

    For example, installation help topics dealing with install/uninstall screenshots for an application's client and server:
    client_dir_sum.gif
    client_dot_net.gif
    client_uninst_wlcm.gif
    server_wlcm.gif
    server_cfg_tomcat.gif
    server_success.gif
    server_uninst_wlcm.gif
    ...or, screenshots dealing with an Accounts window:
    acct_groups.gif
    acct_lookup.gif
    acct_lookup_btn.gif
    acct_templates.gif
    In other words, use cfg for configuration, dir for directory, btn for button, etc., and use either a function or application window as your lead, allowing you to see all related graphics in sequential order. If you've ever done any manual book indexing, think of this as Index entries/subentries, only the "entry" in file naming is your leading prefix (client_, acct_, etc.), and your subentries are the rest of each file name. Such as:
    Accounts
    configuring groups
    using lookup feature
    lookup button
    templates
    Use the same naming conventions for your topic file names as well; using this method eliminates the need for virtual folders. Many users on this forum use the folder structure, but editing/renaming/adding/deleting folders seems to very often create all sorts of grief. I find this naming structure to be less stressful.
    Good luck,
    Leon

  • Best practice for compressing images to uniform size?

    What would be an effective method of compressing all the images (JPEG) used by an application to a uniform contentLength?
    Initial thought is to generate a new copy using processCopy with successively smaller integer values for compressionQuality (in steps of 5 or 10 say) until a result smaller than the target length is achieved, then replace the original with the first suitable copy.

    contentLength is decided by many factors such as height, width, compressionQuality.
    If all images have same height and width, changing compressionQuality will help to get expected contentLength. But be care when using too small compressionQuality, which may make image quality poor.
    Another way to have uniform contentLength is using TIFF format with NONE compression.

  • Placing Images (Screen Caps) for Callouts - Best Practice?

    Illustrator CS6, Windows 7
    I'm placing screen captures (screen images from software) in my artwork files to add callouts and create illustrations for a user manual.
    The machine I'm capturing on has a screen resolution set at 1920 x 1080 (required for software). I'm using Snagit and capturing the screens, saving files, then placing in Illustrator. I've been using images minimum 300 dpi and never upsizing in Illustrator. Still I think my results could be better.
    In the past I've used .jpg as my export filetype for placing into Illustrator. But, recent reads of postings in this community lead me to believe my practice might be flawed.
    Question: What is considered best practice for placing images from screen capture (or any source) in Illustrator? What file type from capture will get me the clearest and most adaptable results?
    My Illustrator file color mode is CMYK and my other art and callouts supporting the screen cap are working great.
    I'm creating the artwork for import to Framemaker and creating a PDF for online and print.

    What I mean is; what is the user looking at, and what are you training on?
    For example, if the application involves medical imaging, and part of your documentation covers something like evaluating medical images in the application, that would probably be a far more color-critical scenario than an application in which the user just views and manipulates data.
    Generally, you don't need anything like 300 PPI for screen captures in software documentation. The whole intent is for the image to look like the screen you are documenting, which is something like 72 or 96 PPI at actual size. You might downscale a screen capture as much as 50%, but at that size, the reader is viewing the application's text (including menus,  etc.) at half the size as viewed in the application, which is assumed to be sized for comfortable reading. Sharpness is good. You don't want the images to become blurred in pursuit of completely needless "resolution."
    Also generally speaking, software screenshots are not usually color-critical. Placing (even pasting from SnagIt) directly into the page layout app is usually just fine. PostScript knows how to separate RGB images. Such things have been done since long before anyone sweated blood over "color management." Assuming your application interface is not using garish color (which would be poor interface design; it's tiring), I dare say the conversion of RGB screenshots to CMYK at the imagesetter or press would be fine.
    How is the manual going to be printed? Unless you're talking about a large press runs, nowadays software documentation (subject to frequent updates) is often printed on on-demand presses (think glorified digital color copiers), not sheetfed presses. With software documentation, you're not usually talking coffee-table collector's books. (The exception would be something like a book on color-correction in Photoshop; thus my first question.)
    I routinely paste screenshots from SnagIt directly into InDesign pages to document software applications, and add the callouts in InDesign. Only when I need some special graphics (swooping arrows, etc.) do I assemble the callouts to the screenshots in Illustrator; and even when I do that, I also typically paste the SnagIt captures directly in to AI.
    Keeping your callouts native to the page layout program also better facilitates language translation, when you have to outsource that.
    JET

  • Best practices / workflow for importing images?

    Is there a recommended workflow or best practices for importing images into the library? Specifically, I want to know -
    1.) Is it better to import /store the Masters right into the Aperture Library
    or
    2.) Is it better to move / store the Masters into a folder you specify and reference them?
    Even more specific, is there any advantage in storing the Masters in the Aperture library?
    As I'm determining how I want to do my workflow, (New Aperture user, so I want to design my workflow from the start) I am thinking that the later would be the way to go, storing them not in the library, but in a folder as a referenced image. My reasoning is as follows
    * Images more readily available for other applications, without having to do an export
    * Library database remains small, storing only the versions (less chance of corruption perhaps?)
    * Eliminate any issues with Time Machine - TM would backup the folder where the Masters are stored, and only need to update when new files are imported there. Also thinking that TM would have less issues backing up the Aperture library.
    So can someone either confirm my reasoning or tell me I'm way off base and should store the masters in the library, and why.
    Thanks in Advance!

    This link has a pretty good summary of the pros and cons of each method. Neither one is perfect of course. Otherwise this question would be easy to answer!
    http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/qanda/files/8992c352f4d1429747200b3e06c215fe -42.php

  • Best Practices for image layout and positioning using anchored frames in Framemaker 10

    Hi,
    I'm looking for the best practices in how to layout my images in Framemaker 10 so that they translate correctly to Robohelp 9. I currently have images inside of Anchored frames that "Run into" the right side of my text. I've adjusted the size of the anchored frame so that my text flows correctly around the image. Everything looks good in Framemaker! Yeah! The problem is that when I link my Framemaker document to Robohelp, the text does not flow around my image in the same manner. On a couple of Robohelp screens the image is running into the footer. I'm wondering if I should be using tables in Framemaker in order to get the page layout that I'm looking for. Also, I went back and forth...is this a Framemaker question or is this a Robohelp question. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    I wish I could offer some advice, rather than simply adding to your question. I think there is something odd that happens with anchored frames.
    I have been going through fits trying to figure out why the placement of my graphics shifts when I run them through Frame 10-to-RoboHelp 9 conversion. The placement in our books is flush left to the body text area. However, when they convert, some are flush left, some are centered, and a very few are flush right. My boss is very unhappy with me, as I have been unable to figure out why this is happening. I didn't create these files, so I don't know if it's something that goes back to how the graphics were initially imported. But I can't figure out why everything looks right in Framemaker, with the frame attached to an anchor tag, etc. but the placement goes hinky when they convert.
    Any insights are appreciated. I'm wondering if it's going to come down to deleting them and recreating the graphic frame.

  • Best Practice for Image placement and Anchored Frames for use in Robohelp 9

    Hi,
    I'm looking for the best practices in how to layout my images in Framemaker 10 so that they translate correctly to Robohelp 9.  I currently have images inside of Anchored frames that "Run into" the right side of my text. I've adjusted the size of the anchored frame so that my text flows correctly around the image. Everything looks good in Framemaker! Yeah! The problem is that when I link my Framemaker document to Robohelp, the text does not flow around my image in the same manner. On a couple of Robohelp screens the image is running into the footer. I'm wondering if I should be using tables in Framemaker in order to get the page layout that I'm looking for. Also, I went back and forth...is this a Framemaker question or is this a Robohelp question. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    I think Jeff is meaning this section of the RoboHelp forums:
    http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker

  • Best-practice for use of object styles to manage image text wrap issues when aiming at both print and EPUB output?

    I have a work-flow question about object styles, text-wrap, and preparing a long document with lots of images for dual print/EPUB output in InDesign CC 2014.
    I am sort of experienced with InDesign but new to EPUB export. I have hundreds of pages and hundreds of images so I'd like to make my EPUB learning curve, in particular, less painful.
    Let me talk you through what I'm planning and you tell me if it's stupid.
    It's kind of a storybook-look I'm going for. Single column of text (6" by 9" page) with lots of small-to-medium images on the page (one or two images per page), and the text flowing around, sometimes right, sometimes left. Sometimes around the bounding box, sometimes following the edges of the images. So in each case I'm looking to tweak image size and placement and wrap settings so that the image is as close to the relevant text as possible and the layout isn't all wonky. Lovely print page the goal. Lots of fussy trade-offs and deciding what looks best. Inevitably, this will entail local overrides of paragraph styles. So what I want to do, I guess, is get the images as closely placed as possible, before I do any of that overriding. Then I divide my production line.
    1) I set aside the uniformly-styled doc for later EPUB export. (This is wise, right? Start for EPUB export with a doc with pristine styles?)
    2) With the EPUB-bound version set aside, I finish preparing the print side, making all my little tweaks. So many pages, so many images. So many little nudges. If I go back and nudge something at the beginning everything shifts a little. It's broken up into lots of separate stories, but still ... there is no way to make this non-tedious. But what is best practice? I'm basically just doing it by hand, eyeballing it and dropping an inline anchor to some close bit of text in case of some storm, i.e. if there's a major text change my image will still be almost where it belongs. Try to get the early bits right so that I don't have to go back and change them and then mess up stuff later. Object styles don't really help me with that. Do they? I haven't found a good use for them at this stage (Obviously if I had to draw a pink line around each image, or whatever, I'd use object styles for that.)
    Now let me shift back to EPUB. Clearly I need object styles to prepare for export. I'm planning to make a left float style and a right float style and a couple of others for other cases. And I'm basically going to go through the whole doc selecting each image and styling it in whatever way seems likeliest. At this point I will change the inline anchors to above line or custom, since I'm told EPUB doesn't like the inline ones.
    I guess maybe it comes down to this. I realize I have to use object styles for images for EPUB, but for print, manual placement - to make it look just right - and an inline anchor seems best? I sort of feel like if I'm going to bother to use object styles for EPUB I should also use them for print, but maybe that's just not necessary? It feels inefficient to make so many inline anchors and then trade them for a custom thing just for EPUB. But two different outputs means two different workflows. Sometimes you just have to do it twice.
    Does this make sense? What am I missing, before I waste dozens of hours doing it wrong?

    I've moved your question to the InDesign EPUB forum for best results.

Maybe you are looking for