thats insane, thanks, i used to separate the color basicly the same way and export as a bitmap, the downside was that i could not get away from that bitmap look.
That is a great video. I think I would like to see how you did the color separation. If you have this already on another video, would you kindly share its link..Thanks again
thank you! New ... learning on my own ... stupid question but here it is anyway: Once I have the picture vectored, colored, sized, etc. and ready to save as an Ai file for a tshirt is there anything else I need to do to the vector ... such as group or lock all the pieces together somehow?
Nice video! But, after you open the EPS from PS, isn't the separated layers is a group of clipping mask shape + raster image with the chosen color? Mine always have that, so i need to unclip first all the layers and leave only the shape and change color directly from Illustrator so now i can change the color freely
Hi thx for the info! Any idea why the include vector data would be greyed out? Also do we have to toggle something to let photoshop create more than two paths?...Running 2024 on a new Mac Book Pro
Is there a tutorial for the technique you used to do this wolf? With the different colours and how you got the wolf to the point it is at in this video?
Hey thank you for watching! It would be fun to try to use GIMP to design a T-shirt haha. Maybe soon. Really cool to know this method can work in GIMP too.
This method is sort of just directly converting pixels into vector shapes, by which I mean you get jagged edges and in some cases tiny squares that used to be pixels. Plus you're gonna end up with a ton of vector data due to there being MILLIONS of vector points. Most of the time when you're wanting to convert art to vectors, part of the purpose is to smooth it out somewhat (a logo, for example) and then, yes, that smooth data can be printed at any size. But with this method, the resulting vectors resemble pixelation so much, that if you printed in large format, it's going to look sort of pixelated anyway. And if you're not going to print at large scale, then why convert it at all? It's an interesting approach, but I can't really see a scenario where this conversion would be useful...
That’s the nature of converting any raster image to vector… this method at least gives you better results than image trace. When printed, it will be hard to tell.
@@CharliePangus No, not ANY raster image - if you have a relatively simple logo or line drawing, with flat colours, image trace actually does a pretty good job at converting it into vector with the right settings, and this is what it's intended for, not photographic or super complex images like your example. I can't work out why it's necessary to convert a raster image such as the one in your example to vector when it could be printed "as-is", a raster/bitmap. What's a possible application? I've tried the technique and to me, the outcome basically looks like a raster image, but now it's made of vectors and so my question remains - why?
You still have to import into Illustrator to save a proper SVG file. For example, my new xTools software required a SVG file. I also noticed when not imported into illustrator my lines still looked a little blurry in photoshop. I’ll have to test this more but that’s my initial findings.
@@CharliePangus Because the way Im doing it right now is just taken it into photoshop & taking the white background out & making it a png then upscaling it.
I have a raster image that was sent to me that isn’t layered or color separated and image trace is failing at. Idk where to even begin lol. I only have illustrator…
PLEASEEEE...ive been trying to image trace a logo ive made but its on a transparent background and all turns white once ive imaged traced. please help if anyone knows a work around.
@@CharliePangus when upload my files to cricut design space I don’t get errors. How can you tell if it’s not a true vector. Also if I upload tp illustrator it has nodes
Aw, YT's algorithm tricked me! I was so excited to see this pop up. Then soon realized you begin the key tasks in Photoshop, not Adobe Illustrator. Sadness...
Thank you so much, bro If possible can you please make a video about how we can find clients and make a consistent income? I'm working on Fiverr but it's not so consistent. If you can help that will be a game changer for people like me. Thanks again, and I wish you the very best.👍
If image trace is not your thing then use the damn pen tool and stop being lazy. People want stellar results but don’t want to put in the time and effort.
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I’ve been using this method for a while now, and a downside you should be aware of are compound shapes it may create
Really good technique! I have been doing it for over 15 years and I have never thought about doing like that!
Well done!
Great to hear!
Wow! I’ve looked for this many times.. and today, I didn’t look and there you are!
Yessssss I love hearing this.
ive been following you for years. happy to see you thriving and providing such quality process for the creative community
I appreciate that!
thats insane, thanks, i used to separate the color basicly the same way and export as a bitmap, the downside was that i could not get away from that bitmap look.
@@caiotak yeah it can be tricky for sure! Glad you enjoyed my video.
That is a great video. I think I would like to see how you did the color separation. If you have this already on another video, would you kindly share its link..Thanks again
Hey thanks for watching!
Check this out: th-cam.com/video/gxqATp6gDnU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ylW06dXykfKEFJWk
@@CharliePangus thanks a lot. You are the man
Yet again you've changed my life! Thank you so much, Charley!
Wow what a huge compliment! Thank you for watching. ❤️
Dude thank you! This was beyond helpful. My mind is totally blown right now.
🙏🏼😊
@@CharliePangus Does this work in inkscape?
Solid! And you can take this a step further by Separating everything out in spot channels in PSD 1st. No More Pesky Image Trace!!
Exactly! So many possibilities. Bye bye image trace. Haha
thank you! New ... learning on my own ... stupid question but here it is anyway: Once I have the picture vectored, colored, sized, etc. and ready to save as an Ai file for a tshirt is there anything else I need to do to the vector ... such as group or lock all the pieces together somehow?
Wow! Its so easy to work now with complex images! Tnx!
The image trace sample of the wolf image has the best texture. I believed it was the raster image from photoshop.
How do you separate color????
This is awesome by the way...
Hey! Thank you for watching. Check my last 3 videos and I have a color separation video.
Nice video! But, after you open the EPS from PS, isn't the separated layers is a group of clipping mask shape + raster image with the chosen color? Mine always have that, so i need to unclip first all the layers and leave only the shape and change color directly from Illustrator so now i can change the color freely
Wow. This is a neat tipp. Thank you so much.
Anytime thanks for watching
Yet again- Charlie proving he is dope AF
Dude this just made my entire day! Seriously thank you for the kind words. 🙏🏼
@@CharliePangus absolutely dude. I’ve learned a lot of great techniques from you. Keep up the good vids 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Broooo!! You are the effing man! So many old designs that I wasn’t happy with I may have to resurrect now 🤘🏼
Haha thank you! So happy to hear this! 😎❤️
Thank you, I still learn from you every time. 💪💪💪
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Great video, How would I start with an image in photoshop that I didn't create and it had no layers already?
I uploaded a video recently going over color separation. I would watch that video! Let me know if you have questions 🙏🏼
@@CharliePangus Thank you, do you happen to know the title of that video?
Hi thx for the info! Any idea why the include vector data would be greyed out? Also do we have to toggle something to let photoshop create more than two paths?...Running 2024 on a new Mac Book Pro
you really did a good tutorial brow, thanks a lot. it works perfectly
😀👏
This'd look really good as the main graphic of a beer bottle label!
Never thought of that!
Is there a tutorial for the technique you used to do this wolf? With the different colours and how you got the wolf to the point it is at in this video?
This is a good one! th-cam.com/video/gxqATp6gDnU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=85m4tXo0D5Y6falg
Game changer for screen printing😮💨
It’s so good!
Thanks, that's a great one! I was wondering if something similar can be done in GIMP. And guess what? It's doable! Thanks again for this video.
Hey thank you for watching! It would be fun to try to use GIMP to design a T-shirt haha. Maybe soon. Really cool to know this method can work in GIMP too.
@@CharliePangus GIMP is like a car from 90s. You can still drive it, but it's missing a lot of stuff ;)
This is game changing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super sick as always! Just signed up for skill share as well!
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omg this is amazing!! damn thanks so much
Can you tell me a method where a gradiant color is used and after image trace the color are not right
This is Game changer! Thanks man!
I got you 😎
Good learning. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🙏👍
Yo crazy video! Do you know what it means if the eps file fails to open because of an “unknown error"?
Could be a software issue. Might want to re-install Photoshop
Cool. This method might work for images that were made with separate layers for each color. What about flattened images?
Yes, absolutely
@@CharliePangus But probably not as smoothly as if you have separate layers.
Yoo!! Mind blown had no idea this was a thing 🤝 👏
😎
Fantastic work-around!
Right! Thanks for watching.
How was the red and white folder created? Doesn't this method select the whole image? How did you seperate those parts of the image prior?
I did some prior color separation. I made a video recently on this. It’s about the 3rd video before this one. 🙏🏼
@@CharliePangus Thanks for being patient and replying man. I'll look at that.
So you need the original files with layers of you take an image from google or a client gives you a jpeg I guess the steps will be slightly different
Yeah steps can change depending on the Situation.
Thank you so much for this!
Really helpful, thank you!
Of course thanks for watching 🙏🏼
this is great thanks a lot
Thank you glad it helped!
That’s super dope. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you 🙏🏼
Great tutorial!! 🙌🏻🔥
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Have any tips on creating lino cut style graphics?
It sure what Lino is tbh haha
Great video sir
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Hello, how to select different color on raster image and group it by color? this first step on this methode right?
Maybe a noob question, but how do you separate colors into different layers/folders? Let's say I want to do this with a photo.
This method is sort of just directly converting pixels into vector shapes, by which I mean you get jagged edges and in some cases tiny squares that used to be pixels. Plus you're gonna end up with a ton of vector data due to there being MILLIONS of vector points.
Most of the time when you're wanting to convert art to vectors, part of the purpose is to smooth it out somewhat (a logo, for example) and then, yes, that smooth data can be printed at any size.
But with this method, the resulting vectors resemble pixelation so much, that if you printed in large format, it's going to look sort of pixelated anyway. And if you're not going to print at large scale, then why convert it at all?
It's an interesting approach, but I can't really see a scenario where this conversion would be useful...
That’s the nature of converting any raster image to vector… this method at least gives you better results than image trace. When printed, it will be hard to tell.
@@CharliePangus No, not ANY raster image - if you have a relatively simple logo or line drawing, with flat colours, image trace actually does a pretty good job at converting it into vector with the right settings, and this is what it's intended for, not photographic or super complex images like your example.
I can't work out why it's necessary to convert a raster image such as the one in your example to vector when it could be printed "as-is", a raster/bitmap. What's a possible application?
I've tried the technique and to me, the outcome basically looks like a raster image, but now it's made of vectors and so my question remains - why?
The only use case I can think of is that 3D modelling software likes vector images more than other images for converting into 3D solids
If you made paths in Ph, don't you already have a vector? Is it needed to import it in illustrator?
You still have to import into Illustrator to save a proper SVG file. For example, my new xTools software required a SVG file.
I also noticed when not imported into illustrator my lines still looked a little blurry in photoshop. I’ll have to test this more but that’s my initial findings.
@@CharliePangus thx
Any tips on my work path dont come out as krispy? Or is that the bet it does?
can this be done with affinity photo and affinity designer ?
I’m sure it could be achieved with similar results.
Subscribed done. thanks for sharing
Hey! Welcome aboard!
how do you separate the colors though?
What do you mean? If you have discord, join my community and we can go into detail! Thanks for the support and comment.
I love this.
Thank you
How to separate the colors??
Can this work for example If I was making images from Ideogram then turning them into vector like this?
I would have to see an example but I’m sure it can work as long as your layers are separated in Photoshop.
@@CharliePangus Im trying like a snake wrapped around a skull for a tshirt design im trying to put together
@@CharliePangus Because the way Im doing it right now is just taken it into photoshop & taking the white background out & making it a png then upscaling it.
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Thank you 😊
Congrats on your recent videos too! I saw one took off! Well deserved. 🙏🏼
What if you don’t have your layers separated and Photoshop and just have a flat image?
This method works best when you have layers or 1 color.
I have a raster image that was sent to me that isn’t layered or color separated and image trace is failing at. Idk where to even begin lol. I only have illustrator…
Join my discord community and send me the art! Would love to take a look. 🙏🏼discord.gg/DzvC5NAf
why my work path doesnt come out good. it is not like my drawing. is it because my drawing is to small? its 25x25 on 300ppi.
Awesome
Cool method, but separating the colors from a raster image is an entire process on its own.
Yup! I have a video on that. 🙏🏼
Not if you have your own designs and label them
@@CharliePangus where is it?
PLEASEEEE...ive been trying to image trace a logo ive made but its on a transparent background and all turns white once ive imaged traced. please help if anyone knows a work around.
how did u import into illustrator?? U didn't show it
but how did you separate the layers?
I made a video about it about 3 videos ago. You will see it on my recent uploads 🙏🏼
Vector Ai will change your life. Literally 2 clicks and it’s 99.9% perfect
I’ve used vector AI before and it’s definitely not 99.9% perfect. It also doesn’t color separate your layers for you lol
You don't even need to draw the wolf soon, yepiiiii.
cmd and alt for mac and for window pc what should we do?
Idk lol
HOW YOU SEPARATE COLORS?
I have other videos on my channel that go over this method 👍🏼
So why do we illustrator when we can export as a svg from photoshop?
It’s not the same. I’ve tested this and the files are almost a “fake vector” not a true vector.
@@CharliePangus when upload my files to cricut design space I don’t get errors. How can you tell if it’s not a true vector. Also if I upload tp illustrator it has nodes
The issue with this method is when you encounter images with more than 3,4,5 colours in them. It gets tasking fast
It’s worth it though for quality results. Nothing great can always be easy.
Aw, YT's algorithm tricked me! I was so excited to see this pop up. Then soon realized you begin the key tasks in Photoshop, not Adobe Illustrator. Sadness...
Ok? 👍🏼
Don’t watch lol. Plenty of other viewers loved the video. 😎
so why doesn't image trace use a similar or even the same workflow?
Lacks control and detail. Just not great for this type of workflow shown in my video.
Thank you so much, bro If possible can you please make a video about how we can find clients and make a consistent income? I'm working on Fiverr but it's not so consistent. If you can help that will be a game changer for people like me. Thanks again, and I wish you the very best.👍
I touched on this topic a few times but I definitely think it’s something I can touch on again soon.
Main thing is networking. Cold outreach. Consistency.
@@CharliePangus Thanks can you please give me some clues on how can I reach and build networking?
If I merge the layers, I lose the ability to color change
You wouldn’t want to merch them unless you’re separating colors.
it doesn't give me an option to save as an eps.
That’s strange! I would slow down the video and re-watch
@@CharliePangus i figured out the problem! Thanks for the response man! Love your videos!
Now the preface of this assumes I know how to break a .jpeg into composite color layers ..... lol.
Check my last 2-3 videos. I do full layer separation breakdown. 👍🏼
but still this method just for limited images as for several seps colors, its still just not for all images
How about starting with creating the color seps. That's the most important part.
I’ve made about 10-20 videos on color separation. If you watched my videos you would of knew that lol
Your I.D photos are in there but barely visible
Never noticed this
*in Gordon ramsey* finally, some good f%#£king food
Haha yes!! I love me some Hell’s Kitchen.
You look like that russian heavy weight boxing champ
I have no idea lol
If image trace is not your thing then use the damn pen tool and stop being lazy. People want stellar results but don’t want to put in the time and effort.
Not well enough explained.
@@IzakNiemann your opinion. lol
@@CharliePangus My opinion matters. Not well enough explained. Period.
Boring
Yet you clicked and commented. Get a life lol