Vector Magic: Convert Raster Images Easily
For those who’ve been looking for an easy way to turn their images into vector art, I’ve got just the thing. Vector Magic is a free online image converter that will let you convert your images to vector format.
For those unfamiliar with the term, vector images are images that can be resized with no resulting blur or pixelation.
Vector Magic is a Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda. The online converter will turn any .bmp, .jpg, .gif, .tiff, .png into .svg, .eps, and .png format.
If you need a little help using the converter, there’s a video that demonstrates how to use Vector Magic.
High five to Peter Butler.
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November 11th, 2007 01:52
This is really cool! And is something I will really use. Nice find baron!
November 11th, 2007 02:28
@McBilly:
Thanks buddy
November 11th, 2007 02:48
How can i ever thank you for this. This tool is great .
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November 11th, 2007 05:59
Oh Jesus, Illustrator took years to finally integrate this feature and now it’s just up there on the web for anyone to use! I remember the days of redrawing clients logos from crappy jpgs and starting off with the vector rendering from Adobe Streamline.
(sorry for the blaspheme!)
November 11th, 2007 06:12
@Madhur:
Your coming here is thanks enough buddy
@Forest:
Haha I bet that’s what most designers would say too
November 11th, 2007 17:26
Even I stumbled upon this site yesterday. Looks great to me. Will try for sure when I will find a file that I have misplaced somewhere on my HDD
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November 11th, 2007 21:35
Wow Brown I just was browsing around, and came across this post.
You’re continuing to impress me with these posts
Great tool again
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November 11th, 2007 23:00
You can really find cool stuff!
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November 12th, 2007 01:25
@Ashfame:
Haha I hope you find that file buddy
@Shankar:
Thanks for the compliment buddy!
@Clara:
It was an accident hehe
November 13th, 2007 00:45
Wow, this is a good find! Ever since I started trying to include images in posts, I have been running into this issue of needing to resize images. Sometimes the resizing works OK, but other times it turns out too blurry or low quality to be worth using. Fortunately, it looks like this Vector Magic thing should help with that.
November 13th, 2007 01:26
@Karl:
Glad I could help
November 13th, 2007 05:00
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November 13th, 2007 05:34
BBaron - this looks like an easy way to get scanned-in ideas for us amateur graphic folks converted over to vector drawings…
For example, I was planning on working on a logo for someone and was just thinking (prior to this posting) how am I going to get this to convert to something scalable?
BB to the rescue!
Rob
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November 13th, 2007 06:19
@Rob:
Just in time hehe
November 13th, 2007 09:40
great link!!! this will be very helpful for web design!
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November 13th, 2007 14:45
@turtie:
Thanks buddy, I’m glad I could help
November 15th, 2007 20:15
Awesome find. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Going to give it a try on a new logo I’ve been designing. Thanks!
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September 29th, 2008 01:34
it’s not that impressive!!!!
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