Line art effect?

does fcpx have the line art effect?

Nope, not as such ... but a combination of the built in Graphic and Sketch filters should get you something usuable.
Then again, Line Art is directly available in Motion 5 so if you have that as well as FCPX you can easily use that instead (or just use it to publish Line Art as an effect in FCP X)

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  • How do I achieve this line art effect?

    I'm trying to replicate the design below but I'm not sure if I'm using the correct approach.
    First, I used Photoshop to desaturated an image and adjusted the levels. Next I imported into Illustrator and live traced it after tweaking the options.
    However, I can't seem to have a nice clean line art like the one above. Do you think that design use another method (maybe manually tracing multiple images using the pen tool)?

    that image you show is drawn or mostly drawn. you can use image trace to get some of the shapes you need and recomposition the pieces back together. for example on the image you want to copy, i would take an image of the skyline and trace that. select the silhouette of the skyline and delete everything else. then i would do the silhouette of the bridge. then i would trace with different settings to get a few of the details in the bridge and put them on top. then draw in a few details by hand. things like straight lines.
    anyway. short answer is that no, there is no illustrator effect that can give you that. it's a lot of work

  • Line art problem outputting to pdf

    I have a problem with exporting pages of a magazine going to print as pdf, relating to line art placed on the page as a bitmap tiff (typically at 1200 ppi). At present I have a workaround for an annoying problem that really needs clearing up ...
    I'm using CS4 InDesign and Acrobat (files prepared in Photoshop). So, high-res bitmap tiff containing line art sized (that is, just placed - no resizing in Indesign) and placed in Indesign, looks fine on the page. Output to pdf using 'export' and the resulting file, when viewed on screen, has a thin line down the right-hand edge of any and all bitmap files.
    To ensure no misunderstanding, the 'bitmap' reference is what Photoshop calls it - a bilevel file with black lines in it, which enables me easily to overlay other files such as a photo (because the file is black/transparent) and assign a colour or tint to the bitmap, or even a drop shadow etc. I've used this workflow for years, from Photoshop through Indesign, but the latter always gives me this line on the right edge, in the pdf. It did this in CS3 Indesign/Acrobat as well (but never in Pagemaker).
    My workaround is to lay a white-filled box over the edge of the file, thus masking it. But of course, that also limits me to where I can place the file - not easily on a graded tint background, not on a photo and so on. So I'd like to solve this.
    Any ideas? OS is Win XP Pro (all updates applied to this and the CS programs - I don't believe they make a difference to this problem, as it has existed through several iterations of both OS and CS).
    Anyone else seen this effect? Or is it just me? And has anyone a potential solution?
    Chris

    I think by reason of not knowing what else I can do, I'm heading to the same conclusion - put up with it! I'll certainly try sending a line to print and see if it appears, but for on-screen stuff, I think I have to stick with the safe workaround I use and accept the layout limitations. (Or resort to Pagemaker for the pages that I just cannot do otherwise.)
    Seems to me, if people have reported this for years, Adobe might have tried sorting it out. On screen or not, it still must be due to *something* in the file and/or Acrobat/Distiller to allow it to appear. If I create a white greyscale tiff with the same resolution etc, and place it on a page, there's no line down the edge on output - just a white page with a white (invisible) box. If I do this with an 'empty' bitmap file, a line appears ... Both files created in Adobe programs, so it's not me as a user ...
    Just me whinging! I'm really coming from the angle that if this is indeed a display problem, it can only be a display problem if there is something in the file for the display to react to (badly phrased that!).
    Thanks everyone for your support and ideas - I think that's me finished for now; I have files to upload and then sleep.

  • Line art filter shimmer

    hi all - I have applied the line art filter to a short clip and the effect is perfect when it's not playing - but when it plays there is a shimmer in areas of the image. The clips are 640 X 480, 30 fps, progressive. The FCP timeline setting is for Photo JPEG. They are color corrected for brightness and contrast with a smidge of saturation in FCP and then sent to Motion. I have played with all the parameters with no luck and looked for another filter to reduce the shimmer to no avail.
    Anybody know of a way to get rid of this shimmer?

    Depending on your settings, the Line Art plugin tends to amplify noise by "outlining" all the differences, which change slightly, frame to frame...
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  • Need help animating line art/paths

    Help please...
    I am trying to animate a line, to have it tween/morph between a line and a question mark and then back to a line. I've drawn my two shapes in Illustrator as line art (as paths, not as closed shapes), but I'm not seeing the paths as a mask when I paste them into my Solid Layer. The parts of my drawing that have closed shapes come in and form a mask, but not the individual lines/paths, not matter how thick I make them. I can see there is a path in AE if I click on the shape, but it does not come up as a masked area.
    Is there a better way to do this, than to animate a mask? Animating masks seems to be the consensus how to do a lot of animation, but I'm stuck trying to get my line appear as part of my mask.
    Happy to try another way; I have yet to see a tutorial that does what I'm trying to do, can't be a reveal, since the final shape needs to morph a few times. I am sure this is do-able (and probably not that hard!), but I can't figure it out; in Flash I would just tween between the two shapes, but not seeing how to do that effect in AE.
    Thank you!

    hi, i took some screengrabs also, so that you can perhaps see what i might be doing wrong...i inlcuded the original shape, from Illustrator, as well as what happens when I paste in AE. for my shape, blends won't work from Illustrator, I need the line to move in a certain way that Illustrator won't do using that feature. thanks very much .

  • Creating layered line art mesh grids

    I would like to create some artwork in illustrator which is based on the same styles as seen here > link to image
    However, I am not sure of the best way to do so - I think it may be best to create basic grids and then distort them
    I also want to make sure that each layered grid is free from backgrounds so the LINES flow free an mesh together
    Can anyone provide any guidance as to the best and easiest/quickest way to create this kind of artwork please ?
    I am sure it's simple if you know how but as a newbie to CS5 i dont - so before I launch into attempts with line art grids and then distort them - i wanted to check if there's a better way
    thanks

    I would say envelope distort would be easiest.
    I use the Effect>Distort and Transform>Transform to make the repaeat of the lines one for the Vertical and one for the horizontal  so I have the grid.
    I selected it all and went to Object>Envelope Distor>Make with Mesh if you practice with the envelope mesh you cn get to even give you straight lines as well

  • Scan a line art

    I am a new user of Photoshop--I am running CS5 Extended on my Windows 7 Pro. PC.--I created a vector line art in Corel Draw X5 that I want to scan into Photoshop for painting.can I print the line art on white paper,then scan into PS--If so what format(TIFF,JPG,PSD,etc)--will I be able to select parts of the closed areas of the line art to paint after rasterizing it or bitmapping--my goal is to be able to import vector line art from one application to PHOTOSHOP to paint.

    Hi, there is a simple way to get your Corel vector artwork into  Photoshop. Save your artwork as an EPS and then open the EPS in  Photoshop. This will rasterize the vector artwork, so set the resolution  at 300. Also, set the color to CMYK (if you use RGB to do your artwork,  you may get some strange color shifting if you switch to CMYK later on).
    If  you need to select areas of the artwork, use the magic wand tool and  create a mask. Be advised that the magic wand can sometimes produce  fuzzy edges, so I would create a large version of your vector artwork that can be reduced in size when you're finished. This will help to reduce  any fuzzy edges. You can also use the expand/contract  feature when you make a selection to futher  reduce this effect but it takes practice to get the masking right.

  • Advanced line art tracing with pen/pad tutorial ...

    In the past I had used stock vector illustrations and creatively assembled them with some typography to get a result that was acceptable to me.
    But recently, i've really taken a liking to the style/look of one of our competitors in the market (see below) ...
    The above image is a line drawing colored with marker and airbrush (physical marker and airbrush, not digital) then is scanned, composed and the text is put in via Illustrator (or Corel).
    I REALLY like this companies artwork because it's all custom and the visuals fit the title of the item very closely.
    However, while my line drawing skill is up to par with the above, I never bothered to hand draw anything due to the time it took to trace out in Illustrator with a mouse using the pen tool.
    That said, I've been impressed by a similar (but all vector) style that I recently found on thinkstock.com and it would seem like this guy is using a stylus/pad to actually trace his lines freehand straight into Illustrator?
    Oddly enough, in all my years of designing ... I've NEVER used a styles/pad (I think touched one once) because it always seemed like one of those odd peripherals that you either loved or you didn't ... like a track ball! And back in the day it wasn't as effective or useful as I think it may be now.
    But I'm starting to think that for the type of illustration seen above, it's an essential tool.
    So can anyone recommend a good stylus/pad and direct me to some good tutorials on the basics of using it for tracing and coloring line art?
    Thanks!

    But I'm starting to think that for the type of illustration seen above, it's an essential tool.
    Where in the world do you get this idea? There is nothing in the artwork you depict that suggests it was done using a stylus. And a stylus is certainly not necessary for it.
    A stylus is just another pointing device. You can do the artwork you depicted with a mouse just fine. Using a stylus is just a simple matter of personal preference. I, for one, have bought Wacom tablets since they first appeared (DIN8 serial model on the Mac). I have never liked them for anything other than pressure-sensitive "painting" in programs like Painter, and not always there, either. I find them awkward and tedious.
    Your curiosity will not be satisfied until you try one. So try one. But they are certainly not required for commercial-quality work.
    JET

  • What is the best way to turn line art into a 3D image in Illustrator? Thanks for your help.

    What is the best way to turn line art into a 3D image in Illustrator? Thanks for your help.

    What version of Illustrator? What do you mean by "Line Art"? What do you mean by "3d image"? Post images showing your starting artwork and an example of what you are trying to achieve.
    If you have Illustrator 12 or higher you can extrude or lathe a simple group or path using Effects > 3D > [Pick one]. You must start with vector data, not a placed raster image. You are very limited in what you can do, and you cannot model multiple objects within one 3D world. Each object you extrude/revolve/rotate is its own world, with its own perspective and camera. You can also make any art into a Symbol, then map that symbol onto any 3D surface you create. The results are, at best, acceptable, and often total garbage.

  • How do I 1)use airbrush type tool in illustrator CS4 or 2) use PS4 airbrush tool on vector line art?

    That's basically my question in a nutty nut.  I am drawing illustrations in Illustrator,
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    lines pixelate.  I want the clean, vector lines of Illustrator with the yummy fuzzy airbrush tool.  In short, can I go back and forth from Illustrator to Photoshop without the line art ping ponging between pixel and vector?

    See this PDF for one approach. The subject was really more about exploring ways to exploit Isolation Mode, but it does so in the context of a poor-man's "airbrush" effect.
    I want the clean, vector lines of Illustrator with the yummy fuzzy airbrush tool.
    In reality, then, you're not wanting vector artwork to look like vector artwork. Here's the thing:
    Vector artwork, is by its fundamental nature "hard edged." That's one of its advantages and one of its disadvantages. Soft-edged fuzzy effect (and its sister, texture) is one of the mainstays of raster imaging. It's one of the main reasons why there are two primary kinds of computer graphics.
    Historically, soft edges and graduations are primarily done with Blends and Graduated Fills. A Blend is really just a semi-automated stack of multiple paths with incrementally changing color. Grad fills are mathematically-defined variations of a path's fill color across the path. Generally speaking, grad fills are limited to a small set of geometric shapes. For most of Illustrator's history that was a very limited set: linear or radial. So when you needed to render tonal graduations in more elaborate shapes, you employed Blends.
    More recently, programs have acquired a newer construct, which is an elaboration of grad fills: Mesh Grads. Mesh Grads are also mathematically-derived and remain as such up to print time--that is, they are vector. They offer more control over the shape of the color transitions. But that control is quite tedious, and is not at all like painting with an airbrush.
    That's about the extent of it when it comes to maintaining "clean, vector edges". With skill and discernment, the results can look just as realistic as airbrush work, and it can be entirely vector. But the interface for doing it is not an emulation of painitng with an airbrush.
    Far more common than a purely vector tool in a vector drawing program that tries to act like an airbrush is the workaround of applying filters or effects to vector paths. Doing that is not purely vector: It's actually rasterization that is re-applied whenever you edit the paths. If you set such an effect as the current default, then you can draw paths with the Brush tool, the Pencil Tool, or really, any of the vector path tools, and that's about as close to emulating an airbrush in a vector program as you'll get. The PDF mentioned above employs that kind of approach. But you should understand, you're really creating raster images when you do that. It's just that, rather than the raster images being "nailed down", they are effectively deleted and re-created on-the-fly if you edit the paths to which the effect is applied.
    Illustrator isn't great at this. Other programs--Xara Xtreme in particular--do it much faster and responsively. But again, even though it retains the lossless editability advantage of vector art, the soft-edged effects are not really vector art. The are on-the-fly rasterizations of vector art.
    Look up Blends, Grads, and Mesh Grad in Illustrator's Help files.
    JET

  • Pixelated Line Art in Photo Gallery

    Hi
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  • Sending line art to Photoshop?

    Illustrator CS4 on Snow Leopard.
    I have a truly vexing Illustrator problem. It seems like a simple challenge, though.
    I have a large black and white vector illustration. There are no grays, only black and white line art.
    I'd like to send only the black line art to Photoshop with the white areas treated as transparency.
    Photoshop treats the un-filled areas as transparency, while it treats the white Illustrator fills as solid white.
    Ordinarily I would simply outline my strokes and do some pathfinder operations to subtract the white fills from the black.
    In this instance, though, there are hundreds of paths: blacks above whites in the stack, whites above blacks, etc. so going through pathfinder commands one path at a time seems almost impossible.
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    Outline all the strokes and then use pathfinder Merge. Afterwards select and delete the white objects.

  • Anyone have experience using high-res files (eg line art) in Aperture?

    As I found at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1741287&tstart=0 it seems that Aperture will choke on files over a certain size. I'll grant, I tried something that is outside the scope of Aperture---I tried using it to store a workflow starting with a scan rather than a photo. The scan is higher resolution than most digital photos (as line art must be).
    Does anyone have any experience with high-resolution photos or scans? I'm talking over a hundred MB, possibly upwards of a gigabyte. These are precisely the sort of files that I want to create lower-res versions for specific applications and have them be linked to the master file.

    I tried to use Aperture with my line art scans in the early versions of Aperture, but gave it up because Aperture did not seem to handle the file size.
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  • Creating line art in photoshop

    Hi all,
    I have experimented with various tutorials and filters in photoshop hoping to replicate the clean smooth lines of the line art type image below (image based of a photo I presume).
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    Any help would be great

    Probably done with the Trace function in a vector program.
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  • Convert photo to line art?

    Dear Forum,
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    If you use Threshold, you can add some gaussian blur to the image to make the edges smoother. You can also add a brightness/contrast adjustment layer between the blurred image and the threshold layer to fine tune the edges.
    If you have Windows, you might want to look at Medhi's Fine Threshold filter (freeware) found here:
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    Edit: You could also use Find Edges on the image first; desaturate it; then use a threshold adjustment layer. Go back to the Find Edges layer and add gaussian blur to taste. To further fine tune, slip a brightness/contrast layer between the blurred image and the threshold to control line thickness/detail. (FWIW, I would make a copy of the Find Edges layer and blur the duplicate so if you change your mind you don't have to start the project from scratch.)

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