Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program (4th Edition).The Art of Vector Graphics, Design and Illustration in Illustrator.Adobe Illustrator CS6 Classroom in a Book.Thanks, Terre! Here are a few more resources to consult if you’d like to learn more about converting doodles to vectors or just about vector art in general. I’ve never used these tools but have heard good things about both:īoth have the ability to apply filters and autotrace parameters. Both are open-source (and therefore free) There are a few pricing plans, including cloud-pricing, with tutorials on. Here’s what she had to say:Īs for vector software… I’m an Adobe gal so my first recommendation is always from the “Family,” in this case, Illustrator. Special thanks to artist and graphic designer Terre Britton ( who offered up some useful links. Let me know if there are other similar resources (especially if they are better) that are available online by commenting below.
Note: only two free conversions, then you will need to purchase the service or software download. Vector MagicVector Magic offers “precision bitmap to vector conversion” allowing you to automatically convert bitmap images (JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs) into scalable vector images (SVG, EPS, PDF).
Similar to the service above, you can either upload an image or provide a URL to an image, but offers greater control of the conversion and digital enhancement of your conversion.
In fact, this free, reliable, online vector image converter has become my go-to each and every time, so I’m shuffling the list and moving it to the top. I still haven’t made the leap to Adobe Illustrator (it’s still floating near the middle of my “To Do List”), but I continue to use ‘s free online image converter to convert my doodles into scalable vector graphics (SVG) format images. The main difference is the order of online vector images converters I’m recommending.
It’s March 1, 2014, and I’ve decided to update this post slightly after almost almost ten months of experimentation. You’ll be asked to upload a bitmap image below, and the service will quickly render vector image. Although the following list isn’t inclusive or representative, I’ve used all four of these with good results. It has something to do with an aesthetic preference for ultra-simple, almost impressionist style line drawings, as if the absence of unnecessary lines allows the image to strive for a more universal, more archetypal…īut already I’m knee-deep and bogged down in “goofy talk”, so I’ll cut to the chase.ĭid you know that you can convert digital images into clean vector images online, easily for free? I’m not expert enough to critique how good/poor the free, online vectorizers are, but they certainly impress me. Soon soon I will share a collection of architectural doodles I’ve been working on, and perhaps at that point I will be better able to articulate what exactly fuels my newfound fascination with vector images.
While my unrepentant doodle habit is no secret, I haven’t yet mentioned my experiments - extremely rudimentary experiments - with transforming my doodles into vector images. In fact, I am as enthralled with vector images as I am incapable of explaining with any degree of precision or even accuracy exactly what vector images are, but the clarity and simplicity and minimalism possible when converting doodle from raster images to vector images is the Holy Grail I’ve been pursuing lately. Not necessarily the colorful, cartoony, commercial-feeling images so prevalent in marketing and entertainment, but smooth, crisp line drawings rendered in black and white. I’ve become a little obsessed with vector images lately.