Default is 128 or 50% grey, and is fine for our purposes here.īlur: Our source image is heavily pixelated and without some sort of blur prior to vectorization, there will be a lot of jagged little areas. Threshold: Defines at what level of grey the divide between black and white is interpreted. Mode: Black and White - This option will generate a simple black and white vector of the source image. Live trace is a powerful tool to convert raster images to vector, and it's utility goes far beyond converting black/white images to smooth landforms, but that's beyond the scope of this tutorial. Next go Object -> Live Trace -> Tracing Options. We'll be using these tools out of Illustrator's toolbox: Using Live Trace to Get Those Smooth Landforms Now that our source image has been optimized for Illustrator, save as a. Now that we have our basic landform here in our graphics editor, we need to paint all the land black and all the water white, leaving us with an image that is just black and white. Now export (or print screen), and take this newly generated landform into your raster graphics editor of choice (Photoshop, GIMP, &c.).
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If you are using Fractal Terrains Pro for your source image, we need to change the default lighting settings - with the map showing Altitude, Go Map -> Lighting and Color and uncheck blended and shaded for both land and water (don't worry about my coloring scheme here, I'm running a custom one, so yours won't look exactly the same, but the important thing here is that we just have raw pixels without embellishments. I am going to go through the steps in taking a simple randomly generated landform from Fractal Terrains Pro to something like this:īefore we even get to Illustrator, we need to tweak our source image a bit.
Programs used for this tutorial were Illustrator 12, Photoshop 9 & Fractal Terrains Pro (YMMV). Now, I am fairly sure that many of these techniques can be translated to other vector programs, I just don't use other vector programs, so your guess is as good as mine.
Now, I've never exactly written something like this, but I've been playing with Illustrator for a couple years now, and I figure I might have some experience to impart on what is a rather daunting program if it's your first time using it. Hello all! Ascension brought up that you all might be in need of some Illustrator tutorials. Using Illustrator For Smooooth Landforms & CLEAN Lines
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