![]() I think it’s really cool that you could hand draw something, scan it with your ScanNCut and then trace it to make projects. It kind of looks like a spade.Ī window will open that asks if you want to trace an image from your computer or one you have scanned with your machine. To get started, click on the Image Tracing tool on the left hand tool bar. I’ll get off my high horse now… Step One: Use the Image Tracing Tool to Open the Image It’s not just large, popular corporations whose images are being ripped off. If you don’t think it’s that big a deal, please check out this great post from an artist in the Netherlands whose craft designs were illegally used. It is a large problem within the craft industry. But, you cannot trace these kinds of images and then make things with them to sell.ĭoing so is a violation of copyright law not to mention, a violation of an artist’s intellectual property rights. That means you can make projects with it that you are going to use yourself or give to others. This is true 99.9% of the time if you downloaded it for free. Unless you paid for a commercial use license when you downloaded the image, you can only use these images to make projects FOR PERSONAL USE. The image is licensed like a Disney character, a corporate logo ( eg Starbucks), or a cute design from an Etsy store or someone’s website. But don’t exceed 5 MB in file size because that is the trace limit in Canvas Workspace chances are anything downloaded is not that large a file. The higher the better if you plan to trace the image. My advice is that they need to be at least 800 – 1000 pixels x the same amount or higher. The way around this is to only download larger (aka higher resolution) images from the Internet. Web resolution is 72 dpi (dots per inch) which is very low resolution print resolution is 300 dpi (sometimes 600 dpi) which is a lot higher. This can happen if you download an image from the Internet and the image is too small, say under about 500 x 500 pixels (sometimes less, sometimes more). This happens because the image is not at a high enough resolution to trace clearly even at a larger size. Sometimes the image is too small to trace and if you try to resize it, it’s blurry/pixelated. There are a couple of things to keep in mind when selecting an image to trace: Pixelating image example. I do not recommend trying to trace either of these types of files. GIF files tend to be lower resolution and have a tendency to pixelate out badly when enlarged.GIF files are now more commonly associated with animations and it’s pretty rare to even find a. JPGs that are high resolution also work well. PNG fie and that’s good.PNG files are generally the highest resolution images with the least loss (in terms of pixel compression) but. However, if you’re not familiar with image file types I’m going to give you a very brief run down here because they are not all equal when it comes to tracing.Ĭhances are what you want to trace will be a. ![]() Please check out the video tutorial below or scroll down for instructions with photos:Ĭanvas Workspace will allow you to trace any. You may also want to check out my tutorial on Group vs. It can get a lot more complicated if you’re image has a a lot of colors or shading and you want many, many layers in a design.īut, even more complicated images can often be traced using the same beginner-friendly steps I cover below. I don’t own the Enhanced Image Tracing upgrade but I may consider getting it if that’s something I hear people would like to see (let me know in the comments below if you do).Īnyway, below I walk you through beginner-friendly image tracing. There is the basic version that comes with the free software and then you can purchase an upgrade to Enhanced Image Tracing if you so desire ($32 – $38 usually). You may already know this, but Brother offers two versions of image tracing with Canvas Workspace. I recently had a request to do a tutorial on basic image tracing in Brother Canvas Workspace, so here it is. ![]() ![]() Click HERE to download Brother Canvas Workspace – It’s FREE!
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