[fxmaster]

Just want to hear peoples methods to get a good result when turning a photo to black and white with hard lines, like a vector?

 

[FatHamsterGirl]

Try Adobe Streamline....after you get your end result, then you can tweek it in Illustrator.

 

[DickTees.net]

Image>Adjuestment>Threshold in Photoshop. You could run it through streamline afterwards. I typically trace the image/elements out using the pen tool in Illustrator. It's pretty time intensive but the results are much better this way.

 

[blairrev2003]

I agree to manual trace. That's normally how I do it but I like to do it exactly how I want.

 

[jdr8271]

There is no one way to do this. one techniques that I use is put the photo in photoshop and use "filter > sketch > halftone pattern". Then copy the image into illustrator, and use "filter > Pen and Ink > Photo Crosshatch" This will create a line drawing most of the time that looks good.

 

[Twinge]

If you only have Photyoshop and not Illustrator, you can do a manual vector trace there as well using the pen tool. I got the hang of it fairly quickly; there's some decent tutorial you can google up if you need to as well. (Look up using pen tool or similar)