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It has no idea whatsoever about which details are important, which are not, which need to be smoothed or roughened, which should represent actual geometric shapes (circles, for example), which "blobs" should actually be combined into simpler and fewer, but more recognizable and meaningful shapes. That's all it does because that's all it can do.

Tries to trace around areas of contiguous same-colored pixels.

Posterizes the raster image, but not with the amount of image tweaking controls you have in a full-blown raster imaging program, and not with any discernment about whether where the color breaks occur is good or bad.

That's how you get professional quality results: with work, not with just the take-it-or-leave-it results of a completely unintelligent algorithm that doesn't know a smooth forearm of a damsel in distress from the sweaty forearm of a burly iron worker.ĭoing it with an auto-trace feature in a drawing program is technically performing the same operations, but more crudely and without the all-important artistic discernment.

Once you've got what seems the best that the automated posterization algorithm is going to give you as something to start with, commit it, save it, bring it into a vector drawing program, and manually trace it with artistic discernment.

You can improve the initial results by undoing the posterization, adjusting tone curves, and trying again. Do the color breaks occur at optimal places to most clearly and cleanly and pleasingly suggest the shapes and contours of the subject? Default results seldom do, even starting with a quality image.

Start with a quality image one artfully composed, well lit, and having good dynamic range.That just yields a rough beginning with which to work. Getting professional results like the sample, though, is not a simple matter of invoking an automated command. The basic style is called posterization (limiting the colors in an image to just a few), which can be done in most raster imaging programs.