They also show users creating movie posters, business logos, architectural sketches, brochures, legal forms, newsletters, stamp blocks, and illustrations. Besides creating a line drawing from a photo, Adobe suggests posterizing a photo and editing color, colorizing greyscale images, and using other special line effects. In the User Guide for Streamline 3.0, Adobe gives many examples of what the program can be used for.
After Adobe Streamline 4.0, the most popular tools in the program, those relating to line conversion, were incorporated into Adobe Illustrator CS2's Live Trace tool.Īdobe Streamline is advertised as a way to convert images into line art (bitmap into vectors). Adobe Streamline 4.0 was priced at $199.00 for a new user and $69.00 as an upgrade.
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Later, Adobe released Streamline for IBM computers and the Windows operating system. They demonstrated it as a program that could reproduce hardcopy graphics onscreen, converting bit-mapped images to high-quality PostScript artwork. Higher values, on the other hand, create a simpler composition, often ignoring smaller areas of color and combining them into adjacent colors for larger, single-color path areas.In 1989, at the MacWorld Exposition in San Francisco, Adobe introduced Adobe Streamline. Lower values create many more paths, making the document more complex and more likely to choke a printer’s processor, but low values also increase the fidelity of the vector to the original raster image data. Minimum Area is the smallest path size desired. To avoid creating vector paths that look pixelated, increase the value of Path Fitting until the resulting paths are smooth, without losing crisp edges and color breaks. For example, a setting of 1 px on a low-resolution image will create vector paths that perfectly stair-step with the grid-based, square pixels. Path Fitting The control determines how closely the vector paths should match the edges of color areas in the source image. When Strokes is selected, the Max Stroke Weight and Min Stroke Length controls are activated providing the options for, respectively, the maximum thickness at which a stroke may be rendered before it’s converted to a fill area and the shortest length of object acceptable as a stroke. If you haven’t opened a library, your only choice will be Automatic, meaning Illustrator will build colors as needed depending on the Max Colors option.įills and Strokes, checkboxes under Trace Settings, determine whether to render vector objects as fills, strokes, or both. However, if you’ve opened a pre-set swatch library such as a Pantone or Toyo, that library will be listed too, enabling you to target all your tracing colors to fit within those in the library.
Palette This pulldown menu says Automatic by default.
For example, if you set Threshold to 200, all the image’s shades of gray that are 200 or higher (on a scale of 0-255), will be white in your black and white tracing all values lower than 200 will become black. You can enter a numerical value or use the slider bar that appears when you click the arrow on the right. Threshold If you chose the black and white mode, the Threshold field becomes active, allowing you to set the maximum grayscale value of white. Mode This pulldown menu lets you choose whether your image and/or the tracing you want is color, grayscale, or strictly black and white.
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