In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how you can trace a more sophisticated image and convert a
ping into an SVG so that you can use it as a drone image in your whiteboard animation software.
So start off with I'm going to try again the PNG taking the default settings and I'm going to change
the scale of the control key and we're going to record.
We're going to trace this picture of a cartoon brain.
OK, so I'm just going to use shift and the mouse wheel to move left and right move.
Then they swore up and down to move the image up and down, and control mice will to zoom in and out.
OK, I'm ready to go now.
The first thing I need to do is to create a new layer, so I'm going to click the plus here on the left.
If you haven't got the layers up, what you can do is go click layer a layers that will show you the
layers section here.
Add a new layer.
We're going to call that trace and adding I'm going to trace onto the trace layer, going to lock the
underside layer.
I want to reduce the opacity so that it's easier for me to see what I'm doing.
For now, I'm going to draw in using a red line just so it's easier to see on top of the black, click
the trace layer, click the Pencil two and draw a line.
OK is currently in red.
I can change that at the moment.
If it wasn't red, I would press shift and hit the stroke box.
Sorry, this stroke box.
I would hit the shift and the stroke color down here, and that would bring up the stroke color, and
I can spin the wheel, spin the wheel here, just like Blue go round to the Reds and once I'm on, the
Reds change the red color.
We're going to keep it bright red for now, and then I want to correct the stroke style.
And I want to I'm just going to track this over here a bit and see how good that is and maybe a bit
bigger.
Going to go to pixels, five pixels.
That's okay.
Now I'm ready to go.
I also want to set the smoothing, so I'm going to delete that and I'm going to look here at the pencil
tool and see the smoothing is 64.
That's great.
If the smoothing was zero, then I'd get quickly lying.
If I said this, moving to 64 and I hit the pencil and I do the same thing again.
It's all smooth sailing, so that makes life a lot easier.
So the section to get rid of that settings there, I'm going to go.
I'm actually going to zoom in a lot more on this to make it a bit more accurate.
I'm going to click the pencil tool and I'm just going to slowly start tracing.
I'm going to start over here.
I'm going to click the left nice button and trace rained.
Trace rained.
Oh, didn't like that one controls it or remove it.
High rise
hybrid, so several attempts.
And I'm just going to carry on and do this and just repeat the whole process until I've drawn out,
so I'll hit, pause and come back to you when I get to the stage where I need to do some ice and things
like that.
So I just hit pause now and speak to you in a few seconds.
OK, so I've chased around this.
It's very rough and I need to make some tweaks.
I'm going to go to the notes all night and I'm going to pick a particular note and I'm just going to
drag the note.
Sometimes it's easier to use the
nice name, the keyboard case, and I'm just going to click on them and drag the lines so they fit a
bit better.
And just going to go round see have missed one here.
I'm just going to go through and with a no to just move the notes around, have a play.
Grab the line.
Move it around.
See how it works.
I can try.
Drag the lines to that fits where where you intended it to be.
Oh.
And I will pause the recording and go through and just change the line so they all fit.
And I'll be back having done that.
I'm going to, in the meantime, add a few extra lines that I've missed and up a lot of these drawings
now before I do that.
If you want to look here, I really want a shop or two.
So I click a double click to add A. And I'm going to change that.
No time to be.
A corner A. Now I can drink that make that sharper and.
I can select that A. Make that call in A. And I, I can decide.
Zoom in.
That's so if I click that note and I click that to be a corner note, I can now select the node and.
I'm just going to go through and select the node select and.
I can adjust that.
I want this note.
I want this note here to be in the corner note and now I can.
Tweak the drawing.
I'll post the video and just tell you that not a lot.
OK, well, we're back here now.
I've traced around.
There's still a few tweaks I could make of.
I've got to do the yet.
If I can go to the layers and switch off the layers, the page, you can see where we are at the moment.
A few tweaks to make a left thing.
Last thing left to do is the eyes.
This take this chasing takes quite a long time.
And every time you see it, you think, Oh, I need to just tweak it out there and tweak that little
bit there.
And
it can be very time consuming, which is why I have some.
Help from using a cheaper resource if you if you need something done and you don't want to do this and
it's quite complex, give me a shout and I can get it done for you.
OK, but at least you now know how to do it, and the last thing left to do now is the eyes.
So to finish off the ice were again to use the circle and start on the top left hand corner and drill
down to the right.
Can start with top left hand corner and drill down to the right.
We'll tweak it.
They select the selection tool when I can, and I'll just change the size to fit over.
Same with this one.
Just change the size slightly.
No, the next thing to do is to do the the two eyes.
And what I like to do is to draw the eye.
It's fine.
What I'm going to do is change the straight path on that.
So object and stroke stroke path, and it's five picks that I'm going to do that to 10 and 20.
So it's completely filled in.
And now I'm going to get the selection to and shrink it down a bit.
And it's the size I want like that.
Now I'm going to click on it with the selection to do Control C, Control V and actually make two identical
eyes.
And then you go, Oh, let's go to the layers, look at the layers, and now we're going to delete the
original drawing, make the current layer and there's my brain and I can zoom right?
If I want a gray rain, so it's gray matter, select everything, go to path.
I go to and stroke, look at the stroke settings and go onto the wheel here and draw myself a nice gravy.
So they get a black brain, if I want to, to make the color black.
Just select everything and then trying to the top.
And we do our usual trick of drawing a square to select the boundaries and resize based on selection
selection to select the rectangle deleted file.
Save as and I'm going to save this as bringing one.
And now, if I bring in brain one, they get brain one done.
Have fun.
Turning pages into SVG is it is a 50 process.
It does take time.
Just going to have patience and creators as much as you want to do.
But you have all the techniques now to trace an existing PNG image and convert it into an SPG.