Question for art/design people

[snarp]

Is there any quick way to vectorize some simple raster line drawings like this? Or otherwise scale them up smoothly?

Like, there's definitely an appeal to just throwing my opus up on Amazon all pixelated, but I feel that such a stylistic choice would obscure the qualities of my art style. I want it to be appreciated for what it is, y'know?

Comments

[law_nerd]

Corel's graphics suite includes a trace program that vectorizes things ... whether it's quick depends on how much fiddling one does with the resulting vectors. And it's not cheap.

I'd guess that Photoshop/Illustrator have a similar module... that would give you similar results (at a similar level of not cheap).

Google says it's possible via Gimp and Inkscape, advantage = free, disadvantage = looks like it's done via extra plug-ins so getting all the software to communicate properly might be a pain.

[telophase]

Illustrator's Live Trace will do that...although you kind of have to be used to working with Illustrator to get anything useful done, I've found. (My dabblings at it haven't produced any amount of expertise at all.)

Photoshop doesn't have anything that I know of.