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dmtb In reply to ??? [2013-06-07 23:56:55 +0000 UTC]

Okay, this is somehow sad .
So the brush in paint is now a vector tool? Good to know^^.

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Zedrin In reply to dmtb [2013-06-08 01:07:12 +0000 UTC]

Only in Flash.

Flash converts freehanded drawings to vector fills that are in the same shape. Photoshop does not, and Illustrator and Inkscape do not have this function.

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dmtb In reply to Zedrin [2013-06-08 01:22:09 +0000 UTC]

I was joking. The dude in your link used windows paint and the brushtool, I'd say.

And I'm fairly sure that Illustrator can turn your strokes into vectors.

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Zedrin In reply to dmtb [2013-06-08 01:24:22 +0000 UTC]

Yep, though it's not a brush tool, just live trace.

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dmtb In reply to Zedrin [2013-06-08 01:29:04 +0000 UTC]

Well, it pretty much feels the same, doesn't it? You draw and there's a vector instead of a stroke. It's just another name. Or am I getting something wrong here?

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Zedrin In reply to dmtb [2013-06-08 02:00:49 +0000 UTC]

With flash it's freehanded, exactly the same way you would in Photoshop, but it makes an immediate conversion/estimation of what it'd look like as a vector. A stroke in Illustrator meanwhile is assembled via making paths and dragging their nodes out.

Strokes are actually a definition that applies to a vector. While there are brush strokes in raster and freehand programs, there's also the strokes in vectors that make up the outline which are totally different, which might explain where the confusion is coming from. Drawing a brush-stroke in flash actually makes a vector fill, not a vector stroke. It's just shaped mostly like a stroke.

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dmtb In reply to Zedrin [2013-06-08 02:48:56 +0000 UTC]

Ah, that make actually a lot of sense . Thanks for enlighten me.

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Zedrin In reply to ??? [2013-06-07 23:42:20 +0000 UTC]

I wish. You'd be surprised at how ignorant fans are -,-

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GauntletPorsche In reply to ??? [2013-06-07 23:36:30 +0000 UTC]

This is really helpful, faved

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ShadowZanon In reply to ??? [2013-06-07 23:21:22 +0000 UTC]

awesome information. this helped me understand vectoring even more.

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Foamflask In reply to ??? [2013-06-07 23:16:34 +0000 UTC]

Nice! Thank you for the explanation, I always wondered what exactly a vector was, especially since it's mentioned a lot in connection to MLP:FiM. I heard once, that they can be scaled without quality loss, but that was about all my knowledge of vectors. So I'm glad I know what they are now.

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AnneHairball In reply to ??? [2013-06-07 23:14:51 +0000 UTC]

Man I've only learned a little about vectors in school but this really clears things up.

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