Keep in mind that your image will have come in as vector filled shapes, so any lines aren’t a stroke but a thin filled shape. As you scale it up large, though, you may notice some of the bumpiness of your hand-drawn lines are more visible or exaggerated, so I usually keep my drawing about the same size as the original. Since it’s vector already, you can make it as large as you want without losing any detail or quality. Once your capture is in Adobe Illustrator, you can resize it (hold shift down to resize it proportionally to avoid distortion). You can now drag it out onto a new or existing canvas to edit it. You should see your saved capture from Step 1 in the library. Open Adobe Illustrator and open up your Library panel. This tutorial assumes some knowledge of the program already. These instructions are for using Adobe Illustrator, since the Capture app is compatible with that. Now it’s time to take that capture and make it vector points. Open Your Captured Drawing in Adobe Illustrator Save your image(s) using the button in the upper right to your Creative Cloud library so you can open it on your computer in Adobe Illustrator.Ģ. You can try out any of these edits using different settings and save multiple versions of your artwork, just in case once you bring it onto your computer you find one easier to work with than another.
Hit the button to capture your image once you’re ready.Īfter capturing, you can edit your capture in the app for things such as cropping, erasing areas, painting in areas that might have disappeared, or smoothing it out. You can adjust the slider on the screen to get the best looking capture of your image. This app works best with just black and white drawings and ones with lots of contrast (no shades of gray or shading).
Make sure you keep your phone level and parallel to whatever surface your drawing is on, otherwise your drawing will be distorted.Īdobe Capture makes an effort to show you what your drawing will look like. Lay your drawing flat, open the Adobe Capture app, and hold your phone parallel to your drawing. Once you have it installed, put your drawing in a very bright place, ideally with natural even light.
VECTORIZE HAND LETTERING DOWNLOAD
Photograph Your Drawing Using the App Adobe Captureįor this method, you’ll need to download the free app “Adobe Capture” from your phone’s app store. So grab your drawing and let’s get started.
VECTORIZE HAND LETTERING FULL
This method is for bringing your Adobe Capture image onto the computer to finish up using Adobe Illustrator, so you’ll need access to that program to complete the full tutorial ( you can get a 30 day trial on the Adobe website). You’ll want a pure black and white drawing, ideally with no shading, to use the Adobe Capture method. Getting a better capture in Adobe Capture can help, but I like to just go with it and am okay with a vector image that’s a little more hand-drawn looking and less perfect.
This method won’t give you a perfect image, but is a quick way to get your hand-drawn pieces into digital form.
VECTORIZE HAND LETTERING HOW TO
This is one of a series of blogs to come on how to digitize and vectorize an illustration, so stay tuned for more.įor this blog, we’re going to use the app Adobe Capture to grab a quick capture of our black and white drawing to bring onto your computer. So, what’s the quickest way to do this? There are multiple ways, varying from more exact to quick and dirty. So you’ve drawn something on paper, congrats! But now what? I like to give away my drawings, but sometimes I want to get them onto the computer in a quick way to put on a greeting card or use on a print on demand site to sell or create products.