Re: photos to line art conversions

[Daniel Friedman <daniel -dot- friedman42 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

If you have illustrator and an artist that will do them in vector format
for $5 an image, that is a pretty good deal. You would probably want an
artist to do it so you can get all angles of the product (there's always
that one component you need a specific side view from). Also, raster line
art is very difficult to work with as it can be hard to change even a small
thing (removing a button), or resize the images for high DPI printing.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net>
wrote:

> Nope.
>
> All we have are Windows "Paint" (the remnants of the once-glorious
> standalone "PC Paintbrush" program whose company was located on Delk Rd in
> Marietta, a northwest Atlanta suburb), Corel PhotoPaint 8, and Adobe
> Illustrator.
> -- Ken in Atlanta
>
>
>     On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 11:40 AM, "Stuckey, Ginger" <
> X2BVSHEW -at- SOUTHERNCO -dot- COM> wrote:
>
>
>  Do you have AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or ProE? If I remember right, most of
> those can do it.
>
> Ginger Stuckey
> Technical Publications - Design
>
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> We have need to convert various photos (jpg format) to line art for our
> operator manuals (heavy construction equipment). This will be ongoing and
> is not a set number of images.
> I have Corel PhotoPaint Version 8.0 on my (Windows XP) platform, but
> haven't found anything in it that can accomplish this.
> I know this can be done in Adobe Photoshop, but management here won't
> spring money for almost anything, although we did locate an individual in
> Thailand who charges $5 per image and does very nice work.
>
> So the questions are:
>
>   - Is there an undocumented method to convert photos to line art using
> Corel PhotoPaint Version 8.0?
>
>
>   - Is there a free software package that can do this if PhotoPaint won't
> do it and I can't get the bucks to the use the Thailand source?
>
> -- Ken in Atlanta
>
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