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@strawbunnyoat3 ай бұрын
Actually? My 17 years of photoshop and illustrator knowledge has been blown out of the water, this is nuts. Complete game changer and thank you for not putting it behind a paywall, that's amazing!
@patrickwu84417 күн бұрын
subscribed within first 10 secs of videos, no bs, no stupid intro, straight to the point, simple valuable infos, love it.
@TomFroese3 күн бұрын
Thanks! I hope I can make more such no-nonsense tutorials, but I do warn you that I'm not always that efficient in my videos! Also, some people have complained on this very video that I took too long giving context in the first 3 minutes. One man's garbage is another man's gold!
@andrewgunter19474 ай бұрын
Just wow dude. How did you even begin to figure this out? Twenty plus years working with PS and AI and you just blew my mind.
@Navigator7777774 ай бұрын
I agree. Illustrator is my money maker. Photoshop is just a needed tool. I'm always bitching to Adobe to combine Illustrator and Photoshop into one program to do exactly this.
@7312james22 күн бұрын
Illustrator's Image Trace results have never been satisfying to me, even when giving Illustrator an easy logo to trace it stills adds some weird curves where there should be straight lines. This was a much needed tutorial, and I am so glad I finally found something that legitimately keeps the details you want. Thank you very much!!
@나니-h6i12 күн бұрын
It really helped. It shows the same result as the original image rather than image trace. Thank you so much. 감사합니다! :)
@TomFroese8 күн бұрын
You're welcome 😊
@CoffeeScribe4 ай бұрын
Wow, the only person on the internet that shows every single step, and doesn't assume that people know where the various windows are or even why things are called certain names too. THANKS!!!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Here for you!
@michaelmccrory22204 ай бұрын
That took a Sherlock Holmes level of genius to solve a problem and make it simpler to use. Thank you for sharing your excellent solution. 👍🏼
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Elementary, my dear Watson! :)
@eartho4 ай бұрын
it's a technique we've been using since the 90s...
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
@@eartho That actually makes sense. LiveTrace came in the 2010s, and I remember using clipping paths Photoshop 4 or something around that version. I didn't know it was that easy to convert selections to paths in the 90s though. My earliest experience using PS was on a monochrome Mac with maybe the original PS on it.
@eartho4 ай бұрын
@@TomFroese yeah, Selection to Paths has been around since some of the earliest versions of Ps. I remember using it frequently in my prepress days iin the early to mid 90s.
@michaelmccrory22204 ай бұрын
@@eartho @eartho We never stop learning and it is good that Tom has taken the effort to remind and tell people who have never seen this technique that this is an option.
@TinaSotis29 күн бұрын
My jaw is on the floor. omg. this is genius.
@lynmeredith84053 ай бұрын
I love this! It preserves hand drawn looks better than any other method. Thank you!
@TomFroese3 ай бұрын
You are so welcome!
@artbygarth4 ай бұрын
This is a fantastic approach! I’ve been struggling with this for years!!
@Szczurzyslawa4 ай бұрын
You just expanded my brain sir! I knew all these tools but would never think to use them that way it's so genius, thank you so much!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad it helped!
@ironmanTetsuoTVАй бұрын
I hate image trace with a passion, this tutorial is amazing!
@JohanEnriqueArteagaLopez4 ай бұрын
¡¡¡¡This is gold !!!! This technique is a step above the technique you taught in your courses at Skillshare. It's very kind of you to release it for everyone. God bless you Mr. Tom!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thanks! This is different from my skillshare classes but uses similar techniques. The difference is that the goal is vector output in this video.
@randomuniicornn4 ай бұрын
I am incredibly grateful for this tutorial, the last few months I have worked on my works with photoshop and fresco, which allows me to have my lines vectorized and with a very good resolution, however I have older art that is great and I want to use it for merchandise and I have been looking for a long time for something that would help me vectorize without having to do them from the beginning again, the image tracing of course did not help me at all, since I lost a lot of details and it was frustrating since my works in general contain many details, this has been the tutorial that definitely gave me a solution, I have tried it and it was simply incredible and the details are still there, I am very grateful! 🦄
@patrickwright88053 ай бұрын
This is fantastic, both is content and presentation, thanks!
@TomFroese3 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@maximoibarra58664 ай бұрын
Lo mejor que pude haber aprendido este año
@johntnguyen19764 ай бұрын
This is also going to be a huge time saver (and a quality booster) for my motion design! I spend so much time prepping elements for animation in illustrator. Thanks so much!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@mikeinscho9874 ай бұрын
Mr. Tom - You're amazing. Thank you. Sincerely, Mike
@TheDocPixel4 ай бұрын
This technique is about 20 years old. Nice to see someone going through the old magazines and making tutorials about some of those "Oldies but Goodies". FYI: I think Deke McClelland was the first to do this. His Mad Scientist experiments were always great and still are.
@eartho4 ай бұрын
more like 25 years old and Deke definitely wasn't the first.
@yeknommonkey4 ай бұрын
@@earthoit was in the ye olde instruction manual that shipped with p shop
@TheDocPixel4 ай бұрын
@@eartho you‘re right. Time sure does fly. Because I remember it was in the handbook too.. remember the days when we read the handbooks?! It was the only way to learn the software, and maybe an article in How or Macworld magazine.
@KuttyJoe4 ай бұрын
@@yeknommonkey Is that right??? This was actually in a Photoshop instruction manual? It's interesting because it says something about how Adobe thought people were using the software in those days.
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Well they did build that "selection to paths" function in there for some reason, right? They must have had this in mind.
@kennethreaume63804 ай бұрын
Wow, an amazing alternative to Potrace! Thank you! 🙏🏻
@mommasoto4 ай бұрын
Love this! Been wkg both PS and Ai over 17yrs and I never knew this! Ha! I stick to illustrator mainly but am so excited to switch to this method! Thank you!
@ziocalli94794 ай бұрын
Image vectorization sometimes requires an old-fashioned way, like video. Thank you.
@hannahroark948415 күн бұрын
THank you so much you just saved me so much time!
@TomFroese8 күн бұрын
Glad I could help!
@keithartworker4 ай бұрын
Great video! Having worked in Photoshop and Illustrator for 30 years, I have preferred Photoshop's "simple afterthought" path tools to Illustrator's dedicated ones. This tutorial is further evidence.
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@sirako4 ай бұрын
I knew it was possible cause I saw someone getting a vector so clean from an ink drawing they scanned like 20 min before and it wasn't on that awful trace look but I never figured that out. Thank you so so so much
@StudioHoekhuis4 ай бұрын
Great tip! I always wondered why Adobe never updated the Trace Image function, it must be ancient by now...
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Good question!
@VisualTimmy4 ай бұрын
Instant sub.. bro this is nuts! I never though of using this method. Image trace is unreliable and I end up reworking it all by hand. This is has so many use cases, much appreciated!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for the sub! Any other questions send em my way.
@FranklinKirby3 ай бұрын
This is simply amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
@mr_ocean55984 ай бұрын
Brilliant - I had never thought to use this approach. Thanks for your generosity!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
You're very welcome!
@envadd.65564 ай бұрын
Amazing how tools we all know can do a lot more then we are aware of
@MonjurulIslam-h4v4 ай бұрын
This guy is just fall from sky to us 🖖
@brianpeterson64812 ай бұрын
This is BRILLIANT!! Thank you!
@TomFroese2 ай бұрын
You’re welcome!
@directedbyericsattler4 ай бұрын
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. May your future generations be blessed beyond earthly limits.
@Alexx98112 ай бұрын
This is incredible, and well explained. Thanks!
@TomFroeseАй бұрын
You're very welcome!
@gerdompaula2 ай бұрын
Stunning. Agree with the rest something I would never have figured out. Thank you & I just stumbled on it looking to find a shortcut metrhod to make multiple arc's which I didn't find ;)
@TomFroese2 ай бұрын
Thanks! What do you mean “multiple arcs”?
@arlofarts94 ай бұрын
holy wow. this opens up so many possibilities. tysm
@jswanson8594 ай бұрын
This is brilliant! Makes total sense on how you did it too. I could have used this 100 times. Now I can. Haha Thanks for sharing.
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Happy to help! I wish I knew this years ago myself.
@Hamiltron_4 ай бұрын
I've seen far more complex videos demonstrating how to do this. Well done simplifying this process. Less steps is better :)
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
That makes me happy! If you ever have the time, I'd love to see some of those more complex videos, just out of curiosity. Thank you!
@KaiBuskirk4 ай бұрын
Thank You! After 40 years your technique will save me massive amounts of hours linking people to your video… DIY - greatest Tutorial !!! Only i missed was the file start resolution in photoshop?
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thank you, please do share away! Resolution is in there. This file was around 14x16 “ at 600, if I remember correctly. That’s because of how small the lettering and texture details were.
@alejamclean4 ай бұрын
You are my new god! #Amazing trick! Thank you!!❤
@vincema40184 ай бұрын
Fantastic method!!! I'll try it in a while!
@itsamegrabbins4 ай бұрын
Great video! Really informative and helpful. I’ve had to wrestle with image trace for years now but l I’ll have to try this next time.
@MarcoTheHEXican4 ай бұрын
INCREDIBLE! MORE PLEASE!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
OK!
@jrfarias5044Ай бұрын
Thank you for your help
@IIAspire4 ай бұрын
This is super helpful! Thanks for sharing!
@clairemardesich85764 ай бұрын
Omg, thank you so much for sharing this invaluable information!
@veerababu99334 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing the technique
@BLTDFRNT4 ай бұрын
stunning flow, thank you so much
@SL_UNIQUE_CONTENT4 ай бұрын
subscribed 💪💪 good luck
@tortera4 ай бұрын
Wow! This is huge! Thank you so much!
@ryanrockers4 ай бұрын
Cool, good tip. Select to path for the win
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
That's the idea in a nutshell!
@drawwitheli46974 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! This is really useful to know
@ventiladordesuco4 ай бұрын
This is a great technique, I would say that I've seen it before but your explanation is easier to follow. However, as a screen printer myself, I couldn't see why your print shop would ask for a vector even though your Image is 600 dpi and bigger than the final print. As far as I know, that is more than enough to print your shirt, furthermore, the printing process is already lossy, so giving them a lower fidelity artwork sound counterintuitive. Vector artwork is mandatory for stationary print, but the mesh on the screen is also finer than on meshes for garment. In the end, you're saying that the 600dpi (possibly more since you said your artwork is larger than the final print) is not enough for your print shop, that uses a process that is inheritable lossy (we are talking about max 200tpi - threads per inch) and is physically impossible to produce a higher fidelity final print. I think they might prefer a vector, but they're perfectly capable of dealing with 600dpi bitmaps.
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Two points here: first, I agree, vectors are totally unnecessary. I work with letterpress and silkscreen often and prefer to send colour separations as bitmap files. But I have found there’s no convincing some suppliers about this, and they will refuse to accept anything but vector. Second, the 600dpi in my file is more about having enough resolution for the smallest details in my artwork to come through in the vector, less about retaining fidelity in the final print. But it would be interesting to compare output of 300dpi and 600dpi versions with this process.
@reevartang5644 ай бұрын
@@TomFroese The only reason for the supplier to refuse (that I can think of) - file size on vector files should be lighter in general.
@trollenz4 ай бұрын
That's a nice approach 👌🏻 Thanks.
@nasdriver35834 ай бұрын
Good workflow! Never had to use threshold before, but will deffo use it now
@karlgustafson78504 ай бұрын
That is awesome. Thanks for this tutorial!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@MoolahZaga4 ай бұрын
That's pretty cool bro!, never knew that functionality! Especially the last littlebit "pathfinder - exclude"
@blahokay14 ай бұрын
What a fantastic tutorial. Love it
@3DJapan4 ай бұрын
I don't have illustrator. There are several very good vector AI tools on the web. I also love a program called Vector Magic.
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Are they free? Or do you pay a sub? Curious how they might compare.
@glaucobass4 ай бұрын
@@TomFroese thank your for sharing this tip. I have both, Illustrator and Vector Magic. Using this technique I could get better results than both of them.
@yaqisthebest4 ай бұрын
I was not expecting this level of such a well thought out tutorial when I clicked this video, I thought that this was going to be another quick hack with questionable quality, but this goes wayyy past my Expectations!!!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Happy to exceed your expectations. No click bait here.
@WiremuTeKani4 ай бұрын
This is brilliant. Thank you!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Glad it helped!
@DustSeeker1634 ай бұрын
You are insane and I love you! This is amazing!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Haha, feeling the love!
@sidsinnocence4 ай бұрын
I was literally looking for a solution like this a few days ago. Trace image was not working. Ended up cleaning the image pixel by pixel. Thank you so much!!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Glad I could help! Wish it could have come sooner for you though!
@sidsinnocence4 ай бұрын
@@TomFroese That it was available at all is a godsend! Google results being as they are, all it provided were alternative ways to toggle trace image options. That wasn't the last time I'll be in that position and now I have an easy solution. Plus- pixel by pixel editing was a great exercise in attention to detail XD
@thewaliiiii4 ай бұрын
Many steps, but could be useful one day. Thanks! :)
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Feels like just a few steps to me after years of trying to figure this technique out 😂
@Gwennie3633 ай бұрын
Awesome tip
@TomFroese3 ай бұрын
Glad you think so!
@passion_proh-jects4 ай бұрын
Such a long laborious process for something that CorelDraw does in a few clicks. That said, still very helpful for PS users. Thank you!
@Taumisch4 ай бұрын
Well done !
@discjunkiesDGT4 ай бұрын
saved me so much time and $$, thought i'd have to buy illustrator, this was a great simple explanation. Thank you
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Glad it helped!
@LuisCasstle4 ай бұрын
You'll still want it if you'll be working with vector files a lot. That or Inkscape which is free.
@DJDLS4 ай бұрын
very helpful thank you!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@mubbashirmumtaz85854 ай бұрын
Really helpful
@andrespalacios19094 ай бұрын
Thank you SO much for this Tom!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Hope it helps!
@damarisk82524 ай бұрын
OMG!! You're a genius! This is soooo much better than image trace ❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing!!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thank you! It took me a long time to figure this out!
@alicea.86454 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@jeremygordonstudio4 ай бұрын
This is so helpful, thank you!
@supbra14 ай бұрын
Really cool!
@ohyeah74324 ай бұрын
You’re reale hero
@mangjose54464 ай бұрын
thanks so much for sharing this.. this method is superb 😎
@patriciofreire33754 ай бұрын
Absolutely awesome! I hate the Illustrator tool to vectorize.
@Mark-ql5ni4 ай бұрын
LEGENDARY!!
@capfever4 ай бұрын
The video starts at 03.00
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
The context starts at 0:00
@TheGoodContent374 ай бұрын
@@TomFroesethe context is useless
@timothychinye60084 ай бұрын
Thanks
@BGdev3054 ай бұрын
EXACTLY what I was thinking! Just do the steps already lol
@zaugitude4 ай бұрын
You people act like you hired this guy, have some appreciation for the time he put into it and respect his decisions. When you make your videos you can start them wherever you like; this is his video.
@hs18654 ай бұрын
Wow what a great tip! Thanks 🙏🏼
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
You're so welcome!
@adamfunk71124 ай бұрын
WOW.
@jazzlehazzle4 ай бұрын
Brilliant technique. Now we just have to figure out how to get this working for multi-color w/o having to get too deep into the weeds of seps...
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
The holy grail
@adamrosenthal75744 ай бұрын
Selecting the path and adding a solid color layer creates a masked shape. Do this for each color layer. Save as psd and open in illustrator, retaining layers. You will have all your colors saved in separate layers in illustrator.
@TomFroeseАй бұрын
This is close to how I show it in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJq3nHSDibSnfZo
@Ebersol_Inc4 ай бұрын
Bravo! I would have never guessed that the PSD make maths would retain that level of fidelity. PSD file size (pixels) is critical for sure. But one must ask, "Why can't Illustrator autotrace do this?!"
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
A very good question!
@painted_in_thick4 ай бұрын
Nice. Thank You.
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thank you too!
@marcromanbravo4 ай бұрын
🤯 thank you sooo much!!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@sumuph4 ай бұрын
Great tutorial. Thank you!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@dphstudioz3 ай бұрын
Thank you
@mrtahirjavaid4 ай бұрын
Great Job!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@Meko_J4 ай бұрын
Amazing
@arcasa-ho9su4 ай бұрын
Interesante, tomo nota. 👍
@coryspeldeart4 ай бұрын
This is a game changer! Thank you so much for this!
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
Happy to help!
@euchrideucrow19704 ай бұрын
Easy when you know how! Love this. Thank you.
@TimiDesign4 ай бұрын
Thanks
@meratcompany52794 ай бұрын
WOW!
@philteders4 ай бұрын
great video like the actions. I don't have adobe Illustrator, could you tell me other programs that I could export to?
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
You can actually do the exclude paths operation directly in PS. If you create a fill layer using the path in PS you should be able to see the result there. I’ve heard good things about Krita if you’re looking for a free vector based graphics app.
@alphanumericskeptic4 ай бұрын
Wow! ...Wow!
@olivier00923 ай бұрын
Always suprised me that there isnt a better intergration between il and ps in terms of filesupport. Id even worde 😢
@jeremypolen44694 ай бұрын
I guess I wonder why not just create that graphic in illustrator originally? I feel like it wouldn't take much for you to convert your workflow to just design it vector from the get go? I know plenty of textured designs are easier to do in photoshop, but this really looks like it would be vector first, and the texture brushes are so simple, I've used textured brushes in Illustrator to achieve the same results over the years with no issues. Then no conversion needed at the end.
@TomFroese4 ай бұрын
In a perfect world this video would not be necessary!