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Cool and easy vector portraits!
By Ps graphiX | June 20, 2008
Yes, today I am going to teach you a very simple way to make a vector portrait (scroll
down to see how it looks like). And this really is vector (you can resize it without losing
the quality). And to do this, we are going to use Photoshop together with the pretty good
and absolutely free, open-source vector program: Inkscape. It works good for portrait, but
also on other things.
The first thing you have to do, if you haven’t already, is to download inkscape. You can
get the latest version at inkscape.org (there’s a link up to the right).
Then you must find yourself a portrait you want to add this cool effect to. I have chosen a
stock image of a cool man with a red thing on his head as you can see below. I found the
image on sxc.hu where there are a lot of great photos you can use for this and my other
tutorials.
Then, in Photoshop, you will have to use the pen tool to draw around the face/what you
want to shop in the portrait. A little tips when doing this, is to lower the opacity so that a
color doesn’t fill the image.
And when you have closed the path, Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail as shown below:
Now you should have a selection around the face/the part we are going to use. So, select
the layer where the person is, and press Ctrl+J (which will duplicate that part of the image
that is selected into another layer). Hide the background layer and the shape, and you will
have something like this:
Now it’s time to save it. And you are going to save it as a .png image so the background
stays transparent.
And now it’s time to start up inkscape! To open our portrait in inkscape, you can either go
to File>Open and find your picture, or just drag your picture from the explorer and into
inkscape. And now the fun begins
First, click on the portrait to make sure it is selected, then go to Path>Trace Bitmap… as
shown (click for larger view):
Then, some options will appear in a box. The things you must select, is Brightness cutoff,
Smooth and Remove background. After that, the options basically depends on what
image you are using and how you want it to look, so just play around and find out how