Why Image Trace Fails: A Superior Method for Vectorizing Designs

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My name is Charley Pangus. In this video, I'll demonstrate why Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator often fails when dealing with complex Photoshop designs or layers. Instead, I will present a more efficient method for vectorization that allows you to create vectors from multi-color Photoshop design layers without losing detail which is common with Image Trace. This new method is perfect for creating t-shirt designs, especially for screen printing. If you enjoy this video consider subscribing.
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@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

The first 500 people to use my link skl.sh/charleypangus05241 will get a 1-month free trial of Skillshare premium!

@tomislavherega7909 Ай бұрын

I’ve been using this method for a while now, and a downside you should be aware of are compound shapes it may create

@clairemardesich8576 Ай бұрын

Yet again you've changed my life! Thank you so much, Charley!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Wow what a huge compliment! Thank you for watching. ❤️

@graphicallydeb9897 Ай бұрын

Wow! I’ve looked for this many times.. and today, I didn’t look and there you are!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Yessssss I love hearing this.

@Hunter_Bates Ай бұрын

Just wanna say that I've used more advice off of your channel than anything else including how to books, Google search etc. You're a pro and thank you for making great content. Much love ❤️

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

That’s so awesome to hear! Thank you for the kind words. 🙏🏼

@MochKholil-cm3mz Ай бұрын

you really did a good tutorial brow, thanks a lot. it works perfectly

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

😀👏

@caiotak Ай бұрын

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.

@interfectumstudios Ай бұрын

Dude thank you! This was beyond helpful. My mind is totally blown right now.

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

🙏🏼😊

@extraclip Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus Does this work in inkscape?

@CrossMyHeart_clothing Ай бұрын

Broooo!! You are the effing man! So many old designs that I wasn’t happy with I may have to resurrect now 🤘🏼

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Haha thank you! So happy to hear this! 😎❤️

@mtyler3047 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this!

@karimelbozidi8289 Ай бұрын

Thank you, I still learn from you every time. 💪💪💪

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

😊🙏🏼

@Designollo Ай бұрын

This is Game changer! Thanks man!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

I got you 😎

@tsewangdorjee2003 Ай бұрын

Good learning. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🙏👍

@loathingboi Ай бұрын

Really helpful, thank you!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Of course thanks for watching 🙏🏼

@mikeymumble8196 Ай бұрын

This is game changing!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@amypangus9941 Ай бұрын

Great tutorial!! 🙌🏻🔥

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

❤️

@ladydia3928 Ай бұрын

Fantastic work-around!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Right! Thanks for watching.

@caleighwears Ай бұрын

Super sick as always! Just signed up for skill share as well!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥

@djvertical Ай бұрын

That’s super dope. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏼

@TheWaelmorgan77 Ай бұрын

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

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Hey thanks for watching! Check this out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nd6hdLehm82onok.htmlsi=ylW06dXykfKEFJWk

@TheWaelmorgan77 Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus thanks a lot. You are the man

@The_Curse Ай бұрын

Yet again- Charlie proving he is dope AF

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Dude this just made my entire day! Seriously thank you for the kind words. 🙏🏼

@The_Curse Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus absolutely dude. I’ve learned a lot of great techniques from you. Keep up the good vids 🤘🏼🤘🏼

@mashukkhan9033 Ай бұрын

I love this.

@TheLastDropSobrietyPodcast Ай бұрын

Solid! And you can take this a step further by Separating everything out in spot channels in PSD 1st. No More Pesky Image Trace!!

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Exactly! So many possibilities. Bye bye image trace. Haha

@schravin Ай бұрын

Yoo!! Mind blown had no idea this was a thing 🤝 👏

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

😎

@thejagman22 Ай бұрын

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...

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

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.

@thejagman22 Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus 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?

@krayne2084 Ай бұрын

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

@vladimirjunior1654 Ай бұрын

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

@thedesignergamer Ай бұрын

Cool. This method might work for images that were made with separate layers for each color. What about flattened images?

@LeviJonMeyer Ай бұрын

Game changer for screen printing😮‍💨

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

It’s so good!

@MphoBoshoga Ай бұрын

Yo crazy video! Do you know what it means if the eps file fails to open because of an “unknown error"?

@user-we8tj2pc9x Ай бұрын

Can you tell me a method where a gradiant color is used and after image trace the color are not right

@user-me3nv7iy7t Ай бұрын

Subscribed done. thanks for sharing

@CharleyPangus 27 күн бұрын

Hey! Welcome aboard!

@RoadCaster Ай бұрын

Hello, how to select different color on raster image and group it by color? this first step on this methode right?

@theMoonStruckGuy Ай бұрын

How do you separate color???? This is awesome by the way...

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Hey! Thank you for watching. Check my last 3 videos and I have a color separation video.

@Lawdhavemercyyy Ай бұрын

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?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

This is a good one! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nd6hdLehm82onok.htmlsi=85m4tXo0D5Y6falg

@eross21 Ай бұрын

can this be done with affinity photo and affinity designer ?

@user-el2if4pp5o Ай бұрын

How to separate the colors??

@RjPerry1971 Ай бұрын

Great video, How would I start with an image in photoshop that I didn't create and it had no layers already?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

I uploaded a video recently going over color separation. I would watch that video! Let me know if you have questions 🙏🏼

@RjPerry1971 Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus Thank you, do you happen to know the title of that video?

@CoZTymMerchem Ай бұрын

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.

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

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.

@CoZTymMerchem Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus GIMP is like a car from 90s. You can still drive it, but it's missing a lot of stuff ;)

@anarte.j Ай бұрын

Any tips on my work path dont come out as krispy? Or is that the bet it does?

@Zentron Ай бұрын

This'd look really good as the main graphic of a beer bottle label!

@jpvonhitchburg8488 Күн бұрын

Awesome

@Frostify Ай бұрын

KILLER VIDEO BROTHER

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Congrats on your recent videos too! I saw one took off! Well deserved. 🙏🏼

@victorff111 Ай бұрын

how did u import into illustrator?? U didn't show it

@BigDub24 Ай бұрын

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

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Yeah steps can change depending on the Situation.

@latenightcanvas147 Ай бұрын

Have any tips on creating lino cut style graphics?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

It sure what Lino is tbh haha

@nanoraygamingmanagement8896 Ай бұрын

cmd and alt for mac and for window pc what should we do?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Idk lol

@aidanoliver8209 Ай бұрын

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?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

I did some prior color separation. I made a video recently on this. It’s about the 3rd video before this one. 🙏🏼

@aidanoliver8209 Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus Thanks for being patient and replying man. I'll look at that.

@zeyele Ай бұрын

If you made paths in Ph, don't you already have a vector? Is it needed to import it in illustrator?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

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.

@zeyele Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus thx

@JCaT52 Ай бұрын

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…

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Join my discord community and send me the art! Would love to take a look. 🙏🏼discord.gg/DzvC5NAf

@stevengarrison1019 Ай бұрын

Can this work for example If I was making images from Ideogram then turning them into vector like this?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

I would have to see an example but I’m sure it can work as long as your layers are separated in Photoshop.

@stevengarrison1019 Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus Im trying like a snake wrapped around a skull for a tshirt design im trying to put together

@stevengarrison1019 Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus 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.

@MaxWeir Ай бұрын

What if you don’t have your layers separated and Photoshop and just have a flat image?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

This method works best when you have layers or 1 color.

@main_channel-ik2pt Ай бұрын

but how did you separate the layers?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

I made a video about it about 3 videos ago. You will see it on my recent uploads 🙏🏼

@ibidesign Ай бұрын

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...

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Ok? 👍🏼 Don’t watch lol. Plenty of other viewers loved the video. 😎

@Liquixe Ай бұрын

Cool method, but separating the colors from a raster image is an entire process on its own.

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Yup! I have a video on that. 🙏🏼

@danukool Ай бұрын

Not if you have your own designs and label them

@JimNichols Ай бұрын

Now the preface of this assumes I know how to break a .jpeg into composite color layers ..... lol.

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Check my last 2-3 videos. I do full layer separation breakdown. 👍🏼

@jeffgearhart1754 18 күн бұрын

If I merge the layers, I lose the ability to color change

@tygaman1110 Ай бұрын

so why doesn't image trace use a similar or even the same workflow?

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Lacks control and detail. Just not great for this type of workflow shown in my video.

@JSXVGE Ай бұрын

Your I.D photos are in there but barely visible

@makaaymv Ай бұрын

but still this method just for limited images as for several seps colors, its still just not for all images

@tonmoy_graphics Ай бұрын

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.👍

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

I touched on this topic a few times but I definitely think it’s something I can touch on again soon.

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Main thing is networking. Cold outreach. Consistency.

@tonmoy_graphics Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus Thanks can you please give me some clues on how can I reach and build networking?

@ChizzyNdukweN Ай бұрын

The issue with this method is when you encounter images with more than 3,4,5 colours in them. It gets tasking fast

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

It’s worth it though for quality results. Nothing great can always be easy.

@juice3434 Ай бұрын

*in Gordon ramsey* finally, some good f%#£king food

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Haha yes!! I love me some Hell’s Kitchen.

@Heapsgoodmerch Ай бұрын

Vector Ai will change your life. Literally 2 clicks and it’s 99.9% perfect

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

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

@ikku4321 Ай бұрын

You don't even need to draw the wolf soon, yepiiiii.

@lastlight05 24 күн бұрын

How about starting with creating the color seps. That's the most important part.

@CharleyPangus 23 күн бұрын

I’ve made about 10-20 videos on color separation. If you watched my videos you would of knew that lol

@alltheserobotsshallfall Ай бұрын

wait so the hardest part you ignore which is having each color on a layer. oh cmon...

@CharleyPangus Ай бұрын

Check my last videos. I made an entire video on color separation Haha. Just gotta ask or watch my videos consistently. 🙏🏼

@chidorirasenganz Ай бұрын

Tbh if it’s your illustration, getting the layers are easy

@TenFoldNow Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangus you've got to mention that in the video. You just mention about this mind-blowing method you know and how image trace sucks and boom you're on photoshop with multiple color seperated layers

@AbhijeetSink Ай бұрын

@@CharleyPangusHey man! I just found you today and honestly loved your video. Btw can you tell the name or something of the specific video you are referring to as I was unable to find it and correct me if I am wrong but your last video seems to be about printer, not how to get each colour on different layers from a image/png.

@rockyboi2374 Ай бұрын

@@TenFoldNow that's the kicker