[TheForge] Question...Illustrations

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Andy,

Jerry Hoffmann taught a seminar for BAM a couple years ago on how he creates
the "Blacksmith's Journal".

He imports his scanned drawings into a Vector based drawing program
(Inivision I think). He then uses an overlay to recreate them as vectors on
top of the original.  Once done the original is discarded and the vector
drawing is used.

I saw this done using Corral Draw many years ago, but it was at a computer
fair of sorts and they were going for the WOW effect and not teaching the
techniques. They gave the impression that the program could create the wire
frame drawing by itself.

I have AutoCad and it's on my list of things to try. Not much CAD work
latelly, so I haven't been into it.

If you find a way to convert automaticly please post your solution.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

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What you can do is use a define edges type of filter and convert the result
from raster (grid of pixels, what Photoshop works with) to a vector
(mathematically defined lines and fills, what illustration programs, like
Illustrator or
Freehand, work with) format. This can yield line drawings that can be
adjusted
before use and can be scaled to any size with no loss of quality . . .