Vectorizing with Silhouette
by Sergio Ordonez at 3:34 pm on Resources
Well, here i bring you another of my essentials, Silhouette is an Illustrator plugin to vectorize bitmaps.
- It’s free (you only have to wait a countdown of 5 seconds)
- Quick to download and install
- It supports several languages
- It has Manuals
- It works with almost any Illustrator version
- It works for PC and MAC
- AND IT’S VERY EASY TO USE
You can download Silhouette here, after that decompress it with Winzip and put the file "SilhouettePlugIn.aip" in the plugins folder of Illustrator. Then, inside the program, you only have to make visible the Silhouette palette (Window > Show Shilouette tool settings).
It works like a charm to vectorize drawings, i use it to vectorize the lines drawed by hand in paper, after you ink the drawing and you clean it a bit with Photoshop, it’s ready to be vectorized. To vectorize images in color i’m afraid it’s more complicated.
I’ve prepared a VIDEOTUTORIAL by popular request, where i explain how to vectorize with Silhouette. Here you have a screenshot of the parameters i use:
