Personally I can attest that it isn’t easy weening yourself off Adobe. I think that’s short sighted and there are a ton of great resources that actually have more advanced features than Adobe. Many people in design feel as if Adobe is the only solution for creating work. I’m trying to see if I can try to not use any Adobe products. Comparing the Two Programs Original Bitmapįor my new project that I’ve been working on- The Undeniable Twilight of Misty Nikkers-I’ve been trying to use as much open source software as I can in order to create my work. It reminds me of a saying that I learned in video production, “Crap in/crap out.” So don’t expect good results from small images or logos grabbed from online. The more pixels in the image, the more the program has info to pull from in order to make a satisfactory trace.

To ensure a good outcome, remember to trace from an image that has a lot of pixel info. Tracing bitmaps in a vector program like Illustrator or Inkscape can give mixed results.

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