Vectorize Any Photo In Seconds! (Illustrator Tutorial)

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Join Charley Pangus in this exciting Adobe Illustrator tutorial where he reveals the secrets to flawlessly vectorizing any photo with stunning color separations. Say goodbye to basic image tracing techniques that limit your control over color and style. With this method, you'll unlock a whole new level of artistic freedom, allowing you to masterfully manipulate your photos and create exquisite designs, especially if you're venturing into the realm of T-shirt design. Get ready to elevate your vectorization skills with this perfect recipe for success.
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[@geoff521]

Excellent job, great info, direct no faff.

[@morethancolors4775]

Your attention to detail is what sets you apart from other Photoshop tutorials. The small nuances you add to your manipulations make all the difference. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@ChristopherDillman]

This has to be one of the best illustration tutorials I've seen in a long time on YT. So quick n clear, and well done. 👏

[@vukhuongtran4165]

Thank you Charley, best tutorial for image trace

[@LaserEngraving911]

Sick!! Well done!

[@IMAGINARYAP]

Greatness! unlimited variations

[@podtuts]

Awesome tricks, thanks! 👌

[@marcosmusicine]

AMAZING!!!

[@lorenzobelmonte1861]

I like the color separation -thx for the tip~

[@falitosis]

This is exciting! Thank you

[@rachelstone3079]

Charley, you rock, thanks! Being I wasn't familiar with these tools, I slowed the playback speed down a little in settings, so I could catch everything. Then I watched it again at normal speed and voila, felt like a pro already! Super helpful, thanks!

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 🙏🏼 I’m so glad you were able to get value from my tutorial.

[@giftadjene7683]

Thank you Charley boy, for this new tutorial, it really helps me 👍👌

[@kwesijohnson8477]

Dope. This is a gem 💎

[@aidansterling5415]

First time watching, great stuff thanks you.

[@TonyJelev]

This is amazing, Charley!!!

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@keytate7456]

REALLY COOL!

[@frogman86]

amazing tutorial :) love it

[@VL20IG]

This is great!

[@andrewgonzalez8305]

i always wanted to do something similar to this, especially for punk posters. Thank you this was such an ah-ha moment😊

[@billdata8414]

perfection . thanks a lot

[@MrAimeHigh]

This was dope, appreciate the video

[@toraedesigns4704]

amazing method

[@user-ug1ew6sj9b]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[@CharleyPangus]

Anytime 😃

[@poowarinbuayeun5937]

love the contents! can't wait for more for this kind of content

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you so much 😊

[@user-fi6hg8vq6c]

Wonderful

[@DiegoMosesOfficial]

Thank you!

[@moneybagmont1777]

Love this video … just getting into graphic design for my clothes nd I love this channel liked and subscribed

[@guilty_10]

thanks alot i used to use this on photoshop using color selection then import each layer to illustrator

[@fritolays406]

That's dope!!!

[@Fatigonrunit]

what a great tutorial bro , subbed !

[@joycenelson7409]

OMG! I'm so glad I found your video. AMAZING! I subscribed and liked :-)

[@servantapril]

so Amaziing

[@ayanmahato6049]

Good good little trick

[@abdallahbabeker3324]

Thanks buddy 🙏🏻

[@steveharvey2203]

Nice!

[@user-gx2zi9gz5x]

Makes it look easy!

[@CharleyPangus]

😃

[@ks5617]

Amazing tutorial 🔥🔥

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 😃

[@indraprakash3458]

Bro it's Dope, thanks for this👍🏾.

[@CharleyPangus]

Anytime 🙏🏼

[@simplyjayfilms]

Wow thanks fam

[@zacshiffer]

Top notch my brother. ⬆️

[@CharleyPangus]

Means a lot man thanks for being such an awesome friend man 🙏🏼

[@Creative_Expression]

that was great

[@marcoschapa]

that was dope brotha

[@Lumonteiro01]

that's really nice, thanks Charley! 🇧🇷

[@CharleyPangus]

Anytime

[@ottovelasquez969]

awesome thanks for your tips !

[@CharleyPangus]

Anytime 🙏🏼

[@firdausdaus9544]

Awesome 🎉🎉

[@CharleyPangus]

🙏🏼

[@ezlos1736]

Good looking out. Definitely help my progress

[@CharleyPangus]

Anytime

[@jeffhiggins8087]

Hi Charlie! Awesome stuff as usual. Easy to follow and just makes me feel good to watch your instructional videos. Can you please please do an instructional video on how to do WPAP effects? I would like to make some of my photos look cool like the effect. Thanks a Million!!

[@Duanekoroye]

Awesome tutorial. Always wanted to learn how to do that

[@CharleyPangus]

Happy you enjoyed the video 🙏🏼

[@adeniyikayode7820]

great tutorial. i can add this to my arsenal Thank you

[@CharleyPangus]

Awesome🙏🏼😃

[@zangdo]

The best

[@goldjellyfish2452]

Wow well done my friend 👏

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@iuryeriky6878]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial. I was looking for some effect that would give a medieval effect and for me it will work a lot. for a graphic design project. kisses God bless you.

[@sandeemilhouse555]

This was exactly what I neded today! Thank you!!!

[@CharleyPangus]

So glad I can help

[@stevedobbs5769]

Killer tutorial my dude.

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you! Appreciate it 🙏🏼

[@amdsagor8194]

helpful video thank you so much 💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@CharleyPangus]

Anytime 🙏🏼

[@ashleygiles1506]

you deserve a hug :)

[@CharleyPangus]

Haha thank you I’ll take hugs 🙏🏼😃

[@jjongpol]

Nice tutorial!

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you

[@majkimajk81]

New subscriber here. Great stuff. It's gonna take me some time to master it. Thank you very much

[@noa2012prints]

Very good idea

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@TazumalDesign]

So good.

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 🙏🏼😃

[@MoneyBaggAb]

You’re elite🔥

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 😃

[@danialzulkifli7408]

Thank You Bos Good Technique ❤

[@CharleyPangus]

Happy you enjoyed it :)

[@virosico3729]

Great content

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you

[@charlesjohnson8595]

sick video

[@CharleyPangus]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@kelisantonioeusebiotavera554]

Nice tutorial, I hope u have on in photoshop.

[@datamack]

Lots of good info in here but covered too quickly. Wish the video was about 50% longer with better explanations on the “why” of each step.

[@_retr0bution]

Thanks

[@CharleyPangus]

Anytime I really enjoyed making this video 🙏🏼

[@jonmarccarey]

Good dang job.

[@CharleyPangus]

😃🙏🏼

[@heroofharo]

Do you do laser engraving at all? I'm just getting into it, and need to learn to vectorize photos to be able to design things to engrave. Your videos seem really helpful, I'm curious how well everything is going to directly translate (my laser will arrive in 2 days). It might be something you'd be good at and be able to make some money with, and the videos may be able to be tailored to another audience while doing things that you're mostly already doing.

[@user-rv6lq1qz3z]

super!

[@angeloarengo857]

say no more, SUBSCRIBED.

[@stevebob42]

I love you man

[@CharleyPangus]

Love you too!

[@md.rashedulislam5779]

Thanks,,,,

[@ahmetcorek4097]

THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@dubznroses]

Is there any workaround for affinity designer?

[@gulljee2234]

greeting sir i had a problem not sloved that when i copy from photoshop to illustrator may white background did not removed in illustrator

[@itsglint9386]

I was using image trace before this 😮

[@CharleyPangus]

Haha same until recently.

[@GrowingwithAnastasia]

You’re ahead of me. I can’t even figure that out 😅

[@pentstudios]

hello, can i convert a file with 250 jpg sequence images to vector in the same time?

[@bendesigns8068]

How are bud? This is freakin' awesome. 💯

[@CharleyPangus]

I’m doing well thank you 🙏🏼

[@AmeyAlshi02]

Hi Charley, Cannot find the downloadable link of the photo.

[@harmonium6769]

❤

[@ClintSmithHere]

❤❤

[@CharleyPangus]

Thanks brother

[@roicesatoya5080]

When I pressed Ctrl + A from photoshop and Ctrl + C on AI, it pasted the full original image :(

[@shonnelcole9862]

But what if you don’t have Photoshop? What are the alternative steps using something like Canva?

[@geraldg.5951]

damn could explain more??? No downloadable image link, doesnt state which kinda file or anything...

[@tubepooper1]

Why does it either take the whole image with background, or just the background in all black when I copy paste from photoshop?

[@artemartem174]

😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@CharleyPangus]

🙏🏼😁

[@disorderindminor]

when I try to control V it takes the entire background with it, not sure why when its seperated in photoshop *edit* had to delete the bakground layer and it worked thanks!

[@xanderpmusic]

same, this is super frustrating

[@Rocket2Terrell]

how do you delete the backgorund layer?

[@marshallwhidby6998]

Did anyone figure it out? Same problem here.

[@barbudaniel6440]

Hi. When i want to copy the image from photoshop to illustrator, it copy with a white background, although i selected only the subject. Can you help me with this? Thanks a lot.

[@gokselguney9390]

did you find a solution?

[@sarguru6265]

@@gokselguney9390 can you help me i got same problem

[@macreadyop31]

I had the same problem. If you save the photo as a psd file and then open AI and go toe File-Place and the select the PSD it will jus t paste the image. But I’m still having trouble erasing the white background at the end.

[@AliSubhi-xs4rn]

Great tutorial. My only nitpick at it is that whenever you apply the stamp filter on other pictures, it ends up looking off and not as detailed as the picture you used in the video. I tried missing with the numbers here and there, but it never looks quite right.

[@kriston9126]

Scale up the image before following his tutorial. More pixels = more detail.

[@AliSubhi-xs4rn]

@@kriston9126 Thank you!

[@mycrazylife408]

Another thing is if your picture isn’t shot with a high quality camera it’s not gonna look good and detailed with the stamp. You see the pic he used was a professional photo

[@Dulxwlay]

Looks like great information but my adobe illustrator looks nothing like yours nor working like yours 🤷‍♂️ so im stuck at right click for rasterize , thank you though

[@Rocket2Terrell]

why does my image from photoshop always have a white background, when i place it in illustrator? im following the steps but it keeps giving me a white background. any tips on how to fix this?

[@Potbillyband]

Same, and do not see an answer in the comments

[@Rocket2Terrell]

@@Potbillyband You cannot drag and drop (or copy and paste) from Photoshop to Illustrator, when needing a transparent background. Save as: choose (PSD) save by clicking on file formats. In Illustrator, use "place" and choose the PSD file you saved.

[@eternaldreamer37]

The video instruction is great. Really like this new method.....and I KNOW your trying to keep the vid short, but SLOOOOOOOW down!!! I can't keep up!!!

[@yemarican]

Hi 😊

[@stzyjrdn]

when I try and delete the background it deletes the entire image

[@macreadyop31]

I had the same issue, and for me it was caused by pressing the Trace button rather than the expand button. So make the trace settings as described with the preview tick checked on. Then press the expand button, which for me was in the window on the right side of my screen. In the video he has it placed on the top bar.

[@tamyahussain]

Anyone else only see low fidelity and no high fidelity

[@therealaaronjames]

damn dude maybe im stupid but you skip telling us some steps you do.

[@therealaaronjames]

i was wrong