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I need to find out the least expensive, easy to use program.
I want it to enlarge images, go from raster to vector and not have those jagged edges.
I've spent too many hours doing things by hand and going back and forth in paintbrush. I am no computer wiz so it has to be easy to use.
thanks
For going from raster to vector I'd personally have to recommend CorelDraw. As far as I know (so I could be wrong) it has the best tracing algorithms. On the other hand, I also use Adobe Illustrator as I find it is better at merging different vector elements into a single design than Corel.
I admit that neither of those are particularly cheap, but it's at least good to have somewhere to start and others can recommend alternatives
There is no program that has a magic "convert to vector" button. Corel X3 has a nice tracing feature, but unless your raster artwork is ultra clean, the trace will need some cleanup. I Use both, but if I could only have one, I'd go with Corel X3.
There is no program that has a magic "convert to vector" button. Corel X3 has a nice tracing feature, but unless your raster artwork is ultra clean, the trace will need some cleanup. I Use both, but if I could only have one, I'd go with Corel X3.
In my dreams, there is no clean-up
You're right - I was probably giving the impression that it was significantly less effort than it is to get to an acceptable finished product. In general, though, the clean-up is removing little humps and bumps in the outlines rather than correcting gross errors by the tracing algorithms, which is the best you're ever likely to get in practice.
I was leaning toward Coralx3 after reading previous posts but there seems to be such contraversy and so many opinions. I'm not afraid of a little work. I am using paintbrush now.
Most of my images are are photo type images from the internet that I want to 'blow' up put on a shirt. Will this program do that?
The problem I have with paintbrush is that once I put an image in it to 'clean' it up, it becomes pixilated.
I guess I'm mostly doing two different things.
One is blowing up color photo type images
two is taking color photo type images and making them into black and white, no half tones or what would be shading, I guess and making an image I can screen print.
Yes it could, but of course, some work has to be done. Included in the CorelX3 graphics suite is the Corel Photopaint, a raster editing software, similar to photoshop.
oh, maybe that's where I need to look. I actually downloaded a 15 day free trial and one of the choices for use was Coral photopaint. I'm going to see if I can figure that out.
thanks so much, I am not computer literate and it's a real stretch for my brain to wrap around this stuff. I can't wait for the day when the computer will not only do what you tell it to do, but when it will do what you want it to do.
what program to purchase? 
